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Teddy Lussi-Modeste
Born	(1978-03-25) 25 March 1978 (age 46)^[1]^[2] Grenoble, France^[1]
Alma mater	La Fémis
Occupations	Director screenwriter teacher
Years active	2004–present

Teddy Lussi-Modeste (born 25 March 1978) is a French Romani^[3]^[4] film director, screenwriter and literature teacher.^[5] He wrote and directed the films Jimmy Rivière (2011), The Price of Success (2017), and The Good Teacher (2024).

Early life

Lussi-Modeste grew up in La Tronche, Grenoble, in a Sinti, Manush Romani community in France.^[3]^[6]

Career

Lussi-Modeste studied cinema at the film school La Fémis in Paris.^[7] He later became a literature teacher in high schools and colleges, before devoting himself entirely to cinema in the late 2000s.^[7]

Lussi-Modeste started his career as a film director in 2004 with the short film Kissing Tigers. In 2011, he released his feature directorial debut, the drama Jimmy Rivière.^[8] He later wrote and directed the drama films The Price of Success (2017), and The Good Teacher (2024).^[5] Lussi-Modeste also co-wrote the screenplay of Rebecca Zlotowski's 2019 comedy drama film An Easy Girl, and Maïwenn's 2023 historical drama film Jeanne du Barry.^[5]

In the 2020s, Lussi-Modeste kept working as a French teacher at a school in Aubervilliers in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, the northeastern suburbs of Paris.^[9]

Filmography

As director

Year	Title	Notes	Ref(s)
2004	Kissing Tigers	Short film	^[5]
2005	Courts mais GAY: Tome 10	Short film, segment Embrasser les tigres
2007	Dans l'oeil	Short film
2009	I'm Coming	Short film
2011	Jimmy Rivière	Also screenwriter
2017	The Price of Success		^[10]
2024	The Good Teacher		^[11]

As screenwriter

Year	Title	Notes	Ref(s)
2004	Pilou	Short film; directed by Claudine Natkin	^[5]
2019	An Easy Girl	Directed by Rebecca Zlotowski
2023	Jeanne du Barry	Directed by Maïwenn

As actor

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2023	Jeanne du Barry	Doctor La Martinière	Directed by Maïwenn

Awards and nominations

Year	Award / Festival	Category	Work	Result	Ref(s)
2011	Angers Premiers Plans Film Festival	Audience Award - Best French Feature Film	Jimmy Rivière	Won	^[12]
2011	Louis Delluc Prize	Best Debut Film	Jimmy Rivière	Nominated	^[13]
2017	San Sebastián International Film Festival	New Directors Award	The Price of Success	Nominated	^[14]

References

^ ^a ^b "Teddy-Lussi-Modeste attendu mardi à l'Autre cité". L'Est Républicain (in French). 1 October 2017. Archived from the original on 12 February 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
^ "Teddy Lussi-Modeste". AlloCiné (in French). Archived from the original on 16 February 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
^ ^a ^b Serroy, Jean (27 August 2017). "Teddy Lussi-Modeste : "Le succès se paie toujours au prix fort…"". Le Dauphiné libéré (in French). Archived from the original on 3 October 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
^ "Gypsy, Roma, Traveller Strand at Borderlines Film Festival 2016". Travellers Times. 10 February 2016. Archived from the original on 18 February 2024. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Teddy Lussi-Modeste". Unifrance. Archived from the original on 12 February 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
^ "Teddy Lussi-Modeste". Roman Archive. Archived from the original on 30 May 2023. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
^ ^a ^b "Cinéma: Teddy Lussi-Modeste, un "voyageur" dans la République" [Cinema: Teddy Lussi-Modeste, a “traveler” in the Republic]. RTL Belgium (in French). 5 August 2009. Archived from the original on 16 February 2024. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
^ "Teddy Lussi-Modeste". Cineuropa. Archived from the original on 12 February 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
^ "L'après-"Titane" de Kazak Productions". Le Film Français. 20 May 2022. p. 14. Archived from the original on 11 May 2023.
^ Lemercier, Fabien (7 September 2017). "Teddy Lussi-Modeste • Director". Cineuropa. Archived from the original on 12 February 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
^ Keslassy, Elsa (9 May 2023). "Indie Sales Boards Teddy Lussi-Modeste's 'The Good Teacher,' Co-Written by Audrey Diwan, Starring François Civil (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Archived from the original on 18 February 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
^ "European First Film Festival Premiers Plans / Festival d'Angers | Palmarès 2011" (PDF). Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers (in French). Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 June 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
^ Lemercier, Fabien (22 November 2011). "Nine contenders for the Delluc". Cineuropa. Archived from the original on 26 September 2021. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
^ Rivera, Alfonso (19 July 2017). "The first films in competition in the New Directors section of San Sebastián". Cineuropa. Archived from the original on 16 February 2024. Retrieved 16 February 2024.

External links

Teddy Lussi-Modeste at IMDb
Teddy Lussi-Modeste at AlloCiné (in French)

v t e Films by Teddy Lussi-Modeste
Directed	Jimmy Rivière (2011) The Price of Success (2017) The Good Teacher (2024)
Written only	An Easy Girl (2019) Jeanne du Barry (2023)

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