Vanessa Filho (born 1980) is a French film director and screenwriter.
[1] She became fascinated with cinema at the age of 13 when she watched Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colours: Blue (1993).
[1] Her feature directorial debut, Angel Face, starring Marion Cotillard,[4][1] premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section.
[5] Filho's second feature film, Consent,[6] based on Vanessa Springora's #MeToo bestseller Le Consentement, was released in 2023 and became a box office hit in France,[7][8] and Filho was nominated for the 2024 César Awards for Best Adaptation.
[9] On 23 August 2022, it was announced that Filho will direct the English and French-language period thriller Trespassers, starring Vanessa Paradis and Nina Hoss.