| Fabienne Servan-Schreiber | |
| Birth Date: | 23 March 1950 |
| Birth Place: | Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
| Education: | Lycée Victor-Duruy |
| Alma Mater: | Paris-Sorbonne University |
| Occupation: | Producer |
| Spouse: | Henri Weber |
| Children: | 3 |
| Parents: | Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber Christiane Laroche |
| Relatives: | Émile Servan-Schreiber (paternal great-uncle) Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (paternal uncle) Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber (paternal uncle) Brigitte Gros (paternal aunt) Christiane Collange (paternal aunt) Édouard Stern (half-brother) |
Fabienne Servan-Schreiber (born 23 March 1950) is a French film and television producer. She is the founder and president of Cinétévé, a production company.
Fabienne Servan-Schreiber is the daughter of Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber, a politician, and Christiane Laroche.[1] Her paternal uncles were Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber, while her aunts are Brigitte Gros and Christiane Collange.[1] She is of Jewish-Prussian descent on her paternal side.[2] Her parents divorced when she was three years old, and her mother later remarried into the Stern family.[1] She grew up in Paris.[1]
Servan-Schreiber was educated at the Lycée Victor Duruy earning her Baccalauréat.[1] She graduated from the University of Paris, where she earned a bachelor's degree in history.[3]
Servan-Schreiber started her career as an assistant to director Henri de Turenne on C’était hier.[4] She then served as an assistant and later a director of several documentaries, and she worked for directors Frédéric Rossif, Vincent Malle and Claude Berri.[1] [3] [4] She subsequently produced Les Murs de Santiago, directed by Carmen Castillo.[1] [4]
Servan-Schreiber started her own production company, Cinétévé, in 1982.[5] She serves as its president.[5] She has produced films, documentaries, and television series like Witnesses.[1] [6] Some of the films she produced are Lumière et compagnie La Fille de Keltoum, Calle 54, Jean de La Fontaine, Le défi, and Les Ponts de Sarajevo.[3] She directed a deradicalisation campaign for the French Ministry of the Interior in partnership with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in 2016.[3]
Servan-Schreiber won a 7 d'Or for Jalna in 1994, a Fipa d’Or and another 7 d'or for Fatou, la Malienne in 2001, and a Fipa d’Argent for Mais qui a tué Maggie in 2009.[3] She won the Best Fiction Producer of the Year Award from Procirep in 2016.[6]
Servan-Schreiber serves as the vice president of the Union Syndicale de la Production Audiovisuelle.[3] She is a Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the Legion of Honour and the National Order of Merit.[3]
In May 2012, Servan-Schreiber co-authored a petition alongside Jean-Pierre Mignard and Bertrand Monthubert expressing their concern about the rise of the far right in France.[7] By April 2012, she co-authored an op-ed encouraging French people to vote for François Hollande as President.[8]
Servan-Schreiber married Henri Weber, a Socialist politician, in 2007.[9]