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Stéphane Mitchell was born in Geneva, Switzerland and is a graduate from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and the University of Geneva’s Faculté des lettres.

Her Master dissertation on French director Céline Sciamma’s use of costume to question identity was deemed excellent and is the recipient of the University of Geneva 2016 Gender prize.

Her writing debut is the awards winning feature On dirait le sud by Vincent Pluss, best Swiss film of the year 2003. In 2022, Fred Baillif’s La Mif/The Fam, which she cowrote, was nominated for best Swiss screenplay. She has penned the critically acclaimed TV drama Déchaînées/UnleaSHEd with Adèle Haenel and Irène Jacob (photo) and is the headwriter of many miniseries for RTS (Radio Television Suisse). Her show Banking District/Quartier des banques is currently in development for season III. Upcoming miniseries : Winterpalace RTS/Netflix, The Deal RTS, En eau salée RTS/Arte and Le Siècle d’Emma (animation) RTS.

She’s currently developping Die Garde, a miniseries with Christian Koch for Catpics, a feature film with Gabriel Baur, a feature film for Luna films and more!

As they say: stay tuned!

RECENT WORKS

Quartier des banques/ (Banking District)

On a screen near you
(in the US on MHZ Choice)

World sales : About premium content

a 6×52′ financial thriller, starring Laura Sepul, Brigitte Fossey and Feodor Atkine

Directed by Fulvio Bernasconi

Produced by Point Prod (CH), Panache productions (BE) & RTS (CH), 2017

Season III is currently in development.

Quartier des banques, a 6x52' financial thriller, coming fall 2017