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  Carole RoussopoulosCarole Roussopoulos

  Carole Roussopoulos was born in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1945. She began her studies in literature in Switzerland, then she went to Paris where she met her husband, Paul Roussopoulos, a Greek painter. In the early years of her career, she worked as a journalist at Vogue. From 1970 she started filmmaking with her video camera. In 1970 she organized a small video group in Paris called Video Out. That same year, she made Jean Genet parle d’Angela Davis and shot a video in the Palestinian camps, Hussein, le N럕on d’Aman. In 1982, she founded the Simone de Beauvoir Audiovisual Center with Delphine Seyrig and Iona Wieder, the first audiovisual center devoted to women’s history. She has made numerous video and film works especially dedicated to the women’s liberation movement including Debout ! Une histoire du mouvement de liberation des femmes (2000). In 1992, Roussopoulos was named Knight of Arts and Letters and in 2001 Knight of the Legion of Honor, recognizing “her 32 years of artistic activity as a filmmaker.”

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  Centre Audiovisuel Simone de BeauvoirCentre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir

  Founded in 1982, the Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir collects and preserves more than 800 feminist audiovisual works and many other related printed materials. Its activities vary widely, and include presenting screenings and discussions at various schools and institutes including women’s prisons, offering feminist filmmaking and film criticism workshops, providing audiovisual resources for journalists, filmmakers, and activists, and transferring archived works into DVD format and distributing them.