Writer | Director
ALEXIA COLETTE
A former SFFILM FilmHouse resident in San Francisco, Alexia Colette films those the world pushes aside, where bodies absorb social, institutional, and ideological violence.
REEL
WORK
DENIED
Drama | 15m | 2026
In near-future France, the public hospital system has become a machine of exclusion. Running on fumes, a doctor secretly treats patients denied care. To save one of them, she must step out of the shadows.
Starring
Ambre Pietri, Emilie Lancien, Philippe Beautier,
Bénicia Makengele, Yannick Bouanga
Written and directed by Alexia Colette
KOKOKIDS OF PARIS
Drama | 14m | 2019
Two girls get away in a dreamy adventure until they face the harsh reality surrounding their lives and that of more and more kids in Paris.
The Kokokids of Paris. Glowing on the inside, while living in the shadows.
7 nominations, 2 awards and a dozen of selections by prestigious film festivals such as the Boston International Film Festival.
Now on WatchArgo and Flixa
Starring
Chaya Kama, Lou-Ann Zozime
Written and directed by Alexia Colette
Outstanding International Film
Micheaux Film Festival 2020
Best Actresses
Method Film Festival
2020
2020 Official Selection
Boston International
Film Festival
Outstanding Directing Nomination
Micheaux Film Festival 2020
SUB ROSA
Drama | 4m | 2021
Jesse and Blair are trying to make up. One more time. But this new lie is not a little one...
An ambiguous scene written by award-winning writer-director Alex Smith (Winter in the Blood, The Slaughter Rule, Walking Out) and directed by Alexia Colette as part of a Sundance Co//ab project.
Starring
Kelly Fonseca, Rufo Quintavalle
Written by Alex Smith, directed by Alexia Colette
PAS DE QUARTIER !
Short Doc | 3m30 | 2015
In 2015, France Télévisions, France's national public broadcaster, launched a nationwide short documentary competition, "Film Your Neighborhood."
Alexia Colette's entry, Pas de quartier ! (No Quarter), follows a Manouche family, part of France's Traveler community, and the discrimination they face in finding a place to stay. The French title plays on a double meaning, "no neighborhood" and "no mercy," which the English no quarter happens to preserve.
The film won an award, aired on France 3, and led to a profile of Alexia on the same channel.
Written and directed by Alexia Colette
Winner for
Best Short Doc 2015
France Télévisions
IN 24 HOURS FLAT:
THE SECRET SIDE
OF PACKAGE DELIVERY
Prime Time Doc I 52m I 2013
Investigative documentary for Sunday prime time program "Doc du dimanche" on French national TV France 5.
Back in 2013, Alexia Colette succeeded in the first infiltration with a hidden camera in an Amazon’ secure warehouse equipped with body scanning equipment to document the working conditions. Scenes captured include an employee fainting from overwork (then dismissed).
Audience: +1 million viewers when airing for the first time.
Written and directed by Alexia Colette
PAS DE QUARTIER !
Short Doc | 3m30 | 2015
WHEN OUR T-SHIRTS COME APART AT THE SEAMS
Prime Time Doc | 52m | 2016
Investigative documentary about the clothing industry (shooting in India and Bangladesh).
From cotton fields to French rivers, Alexia Colette documents the damages of fast fashion. She filmed the forced labour of children in cotton fields in a remote Indian region.
Aired on French national TV France 5 in its Sunday prime time program "Doc du dimanche"
Written and directed by Alexia Colette
BIO
ALEXIA COLETTE
A former SFFILM FilmHouse resident in San Francisco, Alexia Colette films those the world pushes aside, where bodies absorb social, institutional, and ideological violence.
A graduate of Sciences Po Lyon, she spent ten years directing documentaries and reports for ARTE, France Télévisions, and M6. Early on, she turned a different gaze on stigmatized lives: juvenile offenders, France’s Manouche and Gitan communities, a ragpicker living with schizophrenia. Her short documentary “Pas de quartier !“ won France Télévisions’ “Film Your Neighborhood” competition, and her documentary series “Momo Local“ was selected at Slamdance.
After five years covering Sundance for ARTE, she made her narrative debut with “Kokokids of Paris“, a dreamlike escape following migrant children living on the streets. The self-produced film screened at some ten U.S. festivals and won two awards.
She followed with “Denied“ (“Radiés“), a near-future drama set in an authoritarian France where hospitals sort and exclude patients. A finalist at the Deauville Green Awards and an official selection at the Pinerolo International Film Festival, it is distributed by L’Agence du court métrage.
Her third narrative short, now in development, brings her back to the Traveler community, which she has known for nearly twenty years.
