Lucie Derain

Lucie Derain (born Lucienne Antoinette Louise Déchorain, 1902–1977) was a French film journalist, filmmaker and author.

She co-founded the Ciné-club de la femme in the 1930s, and worked with a young Henri Langlois, who went on to found the Cinémathèque Française.

She went on to work for Films Albatros, a production company in Paris mainly run by Russian émigrés.

[1] She was a contributor to various film journals and magazines including Cinéa and Cinémonde,[2] sometimes writing in praise of the Albatros filmmakers.

[5][1] Her short Désordre (1927, 16mm, now lost) was screened in Paris in 1930 alongside films by Mack Sennett and William Wyler.

Harmonies de Paris (1927)