Isabelle Doval

Isabelle Doval is a French screenwriter and director. Before writing stories and making movies, she was a professional musical theater dancer and singer in shows like " Cabaret " and " Kiss me Kate" . She transitioned into cinema by becoming an actress. Especially at the "comédie française" for 2 years and in different plays directed by Jerôme Savary and Alain Marcel. Isabelle Doval appeared in several films under the name Isabelle Dinelli; she was featured in 1996 in « Le plus beau métier du monde » in 1998 in « Comme Une bête » et « Comme un Poisson hors de l'eau » and in 2001 in « La Vérité si je mens 2.» However, those short roles remain rather confidential, as the young woman is working on a larger project. Favoring directing, she made her first short films in 1996, including « Déçues » in 1999, as part of an anti-drug awareness campaign. There she met the producer Luc Besson and Michel Propper, who offered her the opportunity to make her first feature film. A year after writing