Lisa Matuszak studied animation and art at the école supérieure des arts appliqués et du textile (ESAAT), Roubaix, France, and the L'Ecole des Métiers du Cinéma d'Animation (EMCA), AngoulÁªme, where she directed Brume, cailloux et métaphysique (2014). Continuing her studies at La Poudrière, she directed the short Terre Noire, before going on to direct Train de Vie (2015), produced by Les Films du Nord. Asphalte is her final-year film.
