Charlie Blanchard-Daroch

Born in Paris in 1994, Charlie Blanchard-Daroch is an artist whose work explores themes of memory, territory, and identity. From a dual Franco-Chilean background, she took up analog photography in 2014, a practice she continues today with a Canon Tx, favoring the grain and slow tempo of both black-and-white and color. After studying Humanities at the Université de Nanterre and extended stays in Ireland and Chile, she chose documentary filmmaking to give voice to her visual research.

A graduate of the renowned documentary school of Lussas, Charlie moves with ease between technique and creation. A freelance translator sought after by international cinema (notably for François Ozon and Sergio Castro San Martin), she also holds a strategic role as assistant for 'Filmmakers in Residence' at Périphérie. This hybrid path, blending the precision of the word with the power of the image, now feeds her first feature-length documentary in development, Las Semillas. An attentive observer of cultural transitions, she strives to capture the invisible traces of belonging in narratives where the intimate meets the universal.

For her residency at Rocabella, Charlie Blanchard-Daroch dedicates herself to the writing and development of her first feature-length documentary, Las Semillas (The Seeds). This project, which questions notions of roots and transmission, finds in the sun-drenched, suspended setting of the Riviera an ideal testing ground. Between the estate's botanical gardens and the azure horizon, she uses this time of retreat to bring her Chilean heritage into dialogue with Mediterranean light.

The goal of this stay is to transform her photographic archives and field notes into a solid narrative structure. At Rocabella, Charlie practices writing 'through the image': she captures the atmosphere of the estate on analog film to define the visual identity of her film, while refining the sequence outline of her story. The title Las Semillas evokes what travels, what takes root, and what survives—a metaphor for her own journey as translator and filmmaker. Drawing on the serenity of the place, she deepens the dialogue between her characters and their territory, making this residency a laboratory where the warmth of the south acts as a developer on the buried memories she is about to bring to the screen.