When you grow up with a father who is a reporter and cameraman for TF1, you develop a taste for images, situations, and on-the-spot reporting at a very young age. For Eglantine Pottiez de Cesari, writing screenplays quickly went beyond a vocation: it was more an inevitability.
One scene quickly followed another from that moment on: a master's from the University of Paris VIII (in film and audiovisual studies), a number of projects as a co-scriptwriter (including Olivier Terasson's Lago and L'Extra-Ordinaire with Jordan Productions), a spell as a press attaché with Esmod (you have to earn a living, after all!), a commission from Miniato Productions (Smaïn and Jean-Marc Longval) for some one-minute pilots as a co-scriptwriter and co-director...and soon she was on her way, with some early successes already under her belt, including a third prize for the synopsis of Ca Déménage and a prize for the screenplay of Temps Vole Pas! at the International Festival of Digital Cinema in 2000.
Of all her other dreams it was, of course, the production of the feature film Ca Déménage that was closest to her heart. More than just a comedy, the film is a reflection on communication in general and between couples in particular. "We communicate a lot but we no longer speak to each other." The panel of judges at the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation was won over by this project, which was duly rewarded. What did the happy winner make of it all? "It's a real boost!" – not that she has ever lacked the necessary energy.

Achievements since winning the grant
In 2002, Ca Déménage was a finalist for the Juniors prize, whilst Laps 2 Temps was short-listed at the Festival des Invisibles. In 2004, her short film, Solfi, was short-listed by the Master Class at the Deauville Film Festival. In 2005, Eglantine was chosen by North by Northwest to develop her second feature film, Temps Vole Pas!, which was presented at the Berlinale International Film Festival in February 2006.