Frédéric Choffat, independent film director since 1998, earned a degree in photography at the Institut de Recherche et Enseignement de la Communication, Monthey, then studied film directing at the Ecole Cantonale d'Art, Lausanne. He founded the Les films du Tigre film production company in 2009 and received the 2016 Louise Weiss Prize for European journalism. Documentary titles to his credit include Sages femmes (2007), Marcel Ophüls et Jean-Luc Godard, la rencontre de St-Gervais (2011), and Non assistance (2016).
