Celine Tricart

Celine Tricart is an acclaimed storyteller who has developed a unique style involving highly emotional stories and strong visual artistry. Originally from France, Tricart specialized in storytelling and new technologies across film, virtual reality and video games. Her films have been showcased at numerous top-tier festivals including Sundance, Venice, Tribeca, SXSW, and HotDocs. She has received the Lion for Best Immersive Work at the Venice Film Festival, the Storyscapes Award at Tribeca, two Lumiere Awards from the Advanced Imaging Society, two Telly Awards, an Auggie and a Platinum Aurora Award, amongst many other accolades. Tricart served as the president of the international Jury of the Venice Virtual Reality section at the Biennale Cinema 2020.

Tricart co-directed and produced Maria Bello’s “Sun Ladies” cinematic VR film about the women Yazidi fighting ISIS in Iraq which was selected in over 70 international festivals. For this, she had to travel through ISIS-held territory to meet the women soldiers at the border between Iraq and Syria and record their stories. In 2019, Tricart released “The Key”, an interactive experience about the refugee crisis which garnered critical acclaim. Tricart’s companies, Lucid Dreams Productions in Los Angeles and video game studio COVEN in Paris, specialize in utilizing new technologies to further bold, unapologetic storytelling, and in empowering female voices in the process.

In 2021 Tricart was awarded France’s prestigious insignia of Chevalier De l’Ordre Des Arts et Des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) by the Ministry of Culture of France. She was a keynote speaker at SXSW 2022.