Nicolas Champeaux

Nicolas Champeaux is a French-American director, screenwriter and journalist, based in Paris. He has several film docs on the go, and just wrapped-up producing Free Stupid White Male, a four hour/four part radio documentary series on the issues of racism and white privilege in the USA for France Culture. He has been using archives as a starting point for a wide range of productions throughout his career, notably as a journalist in some of the most dangerous areas in Africa. In 2013, he produced a radio and multimedia series based on a rare Al Qaeda manuscript he found whilst reporting in Timbuktu, Mali. In 2016, he produced a radio program based on the audio archives of the Rivonia trial (the trial of Mandela). Then he teamed up with Gilles Porte and Oerd to create the feature documentary The State Against Mandela and the Others based on the 256 hours of the trial’s audio recordings, which led the trio to produce the Virtual Reality film Accused number two, Walter Sisulu, which premiered at TRIBECA.  In February 2019, Champeaux produced a one-hour radio documentary « Ahmed and Sylvia, Letters of Apartheid » based on the twenty year correspondence between Ahmed Kathrada, one of Mandela’s inmates on Robben island, and his fiancée and fellow activist, Sylvia Neame, who was in exile in England and Germany.