Agnès Poirier

Born in Mayenne on October, 24 1960, the daughter of farmer parents, Agnès Poirier grew up in Burgundy. After the CUEJ, the school of journalism in Strasbourg, she joined the company department of the French channel Antenne 2 in 1985. In 1989, for the tv program Envoyé Special, she produced "Rap&Tag" on the emergence of the Hip-Hop scene and Street Art in Paris. It was in this report that NTM appeared for the first time on television, rapping on the roof of Paris 84. In 1993, she left the company department of France 2 to become an independent documentary filmmaker. She filmed in New York for a year "Wiz", a documentary on Funkmaster Wizard Wiz, one of the pioneers of New York Hip-Hop as he tries to rebuild himself after 3 years in Attica prison where he was is converted to Islam. The film received the Best Documentary Prize awarded by the AFJ jury at the Créteil International Women's Film Festival in 1996. It was broadcast on France 3, Planète, RTBF, ICI Radio-Canada Télé. In 1995, sh