Biography
Marcia Romano is a Franco-Argentinian screenwriter and director. Born in Buenos Aires in 1971, she moved to France in the late 1970s. She studied film at the University of Paris VIII and La Fémis screenwriting programme, and began her career working on film sets and in development before writing her first screenplay in 1997.
She has collaborated on screenplays with directors including François Ozon, Emmanuelle Bercot and Audrey Diwan. Romano co-wrote Happening (2021) with Diwan; the film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Other credits include Standing Tall (2015), which opened the Cannes Film Festival, Marguerite (2015), The Apparition (2018) and Revoir Paris (2022).
In 2024 she made her directorial debut with Fotogenico, co-directed with Benoît Sabatier. She received the Knight of the National Order of Merit in 2018 and has been nominated for César Awards for her screenwriting.
