Teddy Lussi-Modeste (born 25 March 1978) is a French Romani[3][4] film director, screenwriter and literature teacher.
[5] He wrote and directed the films Jimmy Rivière (2011), The Price of Success (2017), and The Good Teacher (2024).
Lussi-Modeste grew up in La Tronche, Grenoble, in a Sinti, Manush Romani community in France.
[3][6] Lussi-Modeste studied cinema at the film school La Fémis in Paris.
[5] In the 2020s, Lussi-Modeste kept working as a French teacher at a school in Aubervilliers in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, the northeastern suburbs of Paris.