L y n a T a d o u n t
Filmmaker & Screenwriter · Journalist · Paris-based
Selected Works Screenwriter & Director — Short films, series, and experimental cinema.
Ya Hanouni (Short Film) Screenwriter & Director - 2024
A short film exploring grief, resistance, and memory. Original concept and screenplay by Lyna Tadount, brought to life in collaboration.
Selected in 300+ festivals across 5 countries including 9 Oscar® Qualifying Film Festivals. Winner of 97 awards, including Best Screenplay at Reel Sisters (Brooklyn, NY) and the Nikon Film Festival Audience Award.
Christopher J. McCandless (Short Film) Screenwriter & Director -2023
A short film exploring the search for meaning through the lens of Christopher J. McCandless and the radical power a single book can have on a life. A meditation on our need to reconnect with nature, and the urgency to protect it.
Jury President's Special Mention Award.
Folioscope (Mini-Series) Co-Screenwriter & co-Director -2026
From dawn to dusk, life is but a moment of a single day."
Sabrina has been passionate about the arts since childhood — but over time, her sight begins to fade. Yet this growing darkness doesn't pull her away from creation. It deepens it. She explores the world through feeling, through sensation, through living.
A mini-series about blindness, artistic obsession, and the philosophy of a woman who refuses to stop seeing.
Pause Déj (Mini-Series) Co-writer (2026)
Six two-minute episodes following a nurse and caregiver navigating the impossible balance between her professional life and caring for her mother, living with Alzheimer's. A series about the invisible weight carried by those who give everything to others.
Spécial Mention in Festival Court d'un Soir.