Marian Lacombe is a French Independent documentary filmmaker who filmed and interviewed the 60 extraordinary women featured in The Female Lead video project. She has worked as a reporter, anchorwoman, and editor-in-chief on daily news and magazines for the private French television channel M6. She directed documentaries on filmmakers, choreographers, and designers such as Mira Nair, Agnès Varda, Robert Altman, Philippe Decouflé, and Christian Lacroix. In 2012, for the London Olympic Games, Marian and Brigitte Lacombe collaborated on HEY’YA, a book and exhibition at Sotheby’s about Arab Women in Sport.
