Florence Jaugey

Florence Jaugey (born 22 June 1959) is a French movie director, actress, producer, and screenwriter who lives in Nicaragua.

Florence Jaugey was born in Nice, France in 1959 and studied drama in Paris at the ENSATT (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre).

In 1984 she traveled to Nicaragua to be the lead actress in the movie El Señor Presidente directed by the Cuban director Manuel Octavio Gómez.

This documentary is about the people that live in the ruins of an earthquake destroyed movie house from the 1950s located in the center of Managua.

This movie was the first full-length feature film in 20 years from Nicaragua as reported by the World Bank in a paper titled The Projection of Development by Lewis, Rodgers, and Woolcock.