Lucie Derain

Lucie Derain (born Lucienne Antoinette Louise Déchorain, 1902-1977) was a French film journalist, filmmaker and author. She co-founded the Ciné-club de la femme in the 1930s, and worked with a young Henri Langlois, who went on to found the Cinémathèque Française. Derain's career encompassed many aspects of cinema of the 1920s and 1930s, from titling newsreels to writing screenplays to directing films, as well as reviewing for the major film periodicals in France.