Fabienne Renard

Born in 1953 in Belgium, Fabienne Renard was trained as a journalist and graduated from the Institut des Hautes Etudes des Communications Sociales (IEHCS) in Brussels. In 1977 she started an acting career with the Théâtre de la Communauté company in Seraing. As a filmmaker she directed a few short documentaries and, in 1985, co-directed with Thierry Michel Hôtel particulier (1985), an interesting feature-length documentary about life in a Belgian prison.