For almost twenty years, Mélanie has welcomed unaccompanied minors into her law office and tried to help them in the jungle of French justice. Through her profession, she seeks to repair the injustices suffered by these young migrants, already traumatised by a long exile. And when justice no longer does its job, it is as a committed citizen that she takes them under her wing and continues her fight.
Marion Boé was born in Quimper in 1983. In her teens, she attended all the town's video workshops. In 2003, she left to study audiovisual studies in Valenciennes, with the firm intention of making documentaries. After her studies, she moved to Paris, where she became an editor.
In 2008, she made her first documentary, La Cité des abeilles, which France 3 Ouest co-produced and showed at several festivals (Étonnants Voyageurs, Rencontres de Mellionnec, Festival de Douarnenez).
She moved back to Brittany in 2015, where she continued to edit documentaries (L'Odyssée d'Omar by Mamounata Nikièma, Symphonie Arctique by Laurie-Anne Courson, Diplomatie by Julien Bur) and returned to directing in 2018 with the short film Wendy, as part of the Portraits de Mellionnec workshop.
She will begin work on her second documentary, Unpays de papier (A Land of Paper), in 2020, which will be broadcast on TVR in 2024.
Through her films, Marion Boé likes to tell human, committed stories, collective, supportive adventures brought to life by touching personalities.
