Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

956 • TELLÈNE, ERIC
Filmography
2005 Tout pour plaire (also co-screenwriter; France
/ Belgium)
TELLÈNE, ERIC (September 16, 1966, Cavaillon,
Vaucluse, France–)
A projectionist from age thirteen, he directed his
fi rst short in 1988 and fi ve years later created a
small production company, La Société des Films du
Projectionniste.
Filmography
1988 Notre Soleil (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1992 Papy Nostalgie (4 50' video documentary)
1994 Coquin de Sort (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1995 Peuchère (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
2000 Calme le Jeu (also screenwriter, dialogist; shot
in 1998–1999)
2007 Dans les Yeux d’un Flic (video documentary;
co-director with Patrick Gimenez; also coscreenwriter)
2008 Le Bruit du Bonheur (also co-screenwriter, codialogist;
shot in 2001–2005)
TEMPO, FABRICE
Filmography
2001 Soleil (short; also screenwriter)
2006 Un Eté surréaliste (also screenwriter, dialogist)
TÉNO, JEAN-MARIE (May 14, 1954, Famleng,
Cameroon–)
Cameroonian born, he has lived in Paris since 1977. In
2002, he produced Si-Gueriki, la Reine-Mère (documentary,
Idrissou Mora Kpai, Benin / France / Germany).
Filmography
1987 De Ouaga à Douala en passant par Paris (documentary;
Cameroon)
La Gifl e et la Caresse (documentary; short; also
screenwriter)
1988 Eau de Misère (documentary; Cameroon)
1993 Afrique, je te plumerai (documentary; also producer,
narrator)
1994 La Tête dans les Nuages (documentary; short;
also screenwriter, sound engineer; Cameroon)
1996 Clando (also screenwriter, producer; France /
Germany / Cameroon)
1999 Chef! (documentary; also screenwriter, producer,
cinematographer; France / Cameroon)
2000 Vacances au Pays / Ferien in der Heimat (documentary;
also cinematographer; France / Germany
/ Cameroon)
Hommage (documentary; short; also screenwriter,
cinematographer)
2003 Le Mariage d’Alex (documentary; short; also
delegate producer, cinematographer; France
/ Cameroon)
2005 Le Malentendu colonial (also screenwriter; also
screenwriter, delegate producer, cinematographer,
sound engineer; France / Germany /
Cameroon)
TÉODORI, MURIEL (September 8, 1958, France–)
Having graduated with diplomas in philosophy and
clinical psychopathology, she entered fi lms as an
assistant director (1983 L’Eté meurtrier / USA: One
Deadly Summer, Jean Becker). She co-wrote movies
(1985 Le Meilleur de la Vie, also dialogist, Renaud Victor;
1990 Tom et Lola, also co-dialogist, Bertrand Arthuys;
1991 L’Ombre, Claude Goretta, Switzerland; 1994 Le
Mangeur de Lune, also co-dialogist, Sijie Dai, 1995 Les
Silences du Palais / Samt el qusur / USA: The Silence of
the Palace, Moufi da Tiati, France / Tunisia) and produced
a short (2004 Le Fils de la Sorcière, Maud Alpi).
From 1987 to 1992, she taught screenwriting at the
Fémis. She also worked as a journalist for Elle magazine
under the pseudonym of Jeanne Chuzelles.
Filmography
1988 La Princesse sur un autre Pois (short; also
screenwriter, dialogist)
1991 Eux, vous, nous (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1993 Le Linge sale (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
2000 Sans Plomb (also co-screenwriter)
TÉRAC, SOLANGE (Solange Tissot / February
13, 1907, Paris, France–September 14, 1993, Paris,
France)
A former journalist and assistant director as Solange
Bussi (1929 L’affaire du Collier de la Reine / USA:
The Queen’s Necklace, Gaston Ravel; Figaro, Gaston
Ravel), she was above all a screenwriter (about
thirty fi lms from 1931 L’Opéra de Quat’s Sous / USA:
The Threepenny Opera, G. W. Pabst, to 1965 Passeport
diplomatique Agent K8 / Agente Tigre, sfi da infernale /