Benoit Raoulx

Benoît Raoulx is an associate professor at the University of Caen Normandy and a documentary filmmaker. He has an interdisciplinary background, in social geography and social sciences. He attended the Ateliers Varan in Paris in 2000 (training in documentary film direction) and has made several documentary films as Traplines in Vancouver (2003), which got several awards, selected in several film festivals (ie Entrevues Belfort and Traces de vie in France) Las Playitas (2007), The Encyclopedia of Migrants (co-director, 2017). He created and is coordinating an interdisciplinary program (FRESH, Film et Recherche en Sciences Sociales) at the crossroad of documentary cinema and social sciences supported by different institutions in France and in Tunisia. The program have put in place film making workshops with the support of cultural institutions and do screenings for different audiences, with the objective of developping innovative way of doing research. He is specially interested in topics such as spatial and social marginality and interculturality in different contexts. He has lived, and done projects before in France, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Canada and Algeria.