Marianne Chaud

Biography

Marianne Chaud, born in 1976 in Briançon (Hautes-Alpes), is a French ethnologist and documentary filmmaker, specializing in the Ladakh-Zanskar region of India. Born Briançon, she grew up in Puy-Saint-Vincent, south of the Écrins massif, where she enjoyed mountaineering and rock climbing. At 14, she took part in a humanitarian mission in the High Atlas mountain range in Morocco. In 1996, aged only 20, she went on a trip to India. In 1998, she went to live for a whole year in Bombay with an Indian family, in order to complete her master's thesis on Indian folk theatre. During this stay, she tr... Show more

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