Marie-Baptiste Roches

After completing a Master’s degree in cinema at the University of Rennes, Marie-Baptiste Roches worked as an assistant director on various short and feature films, as well as casting director and extras coordinator. She directed her first short film, Une Sauterelle dans le jardin (A Grasshopper in the Garden) in 2007, after winning the Estran competition.
In 2012, she joined Groupe Ouest to work on her first feature film script, Waterproof. She was awarded the Crédit Agricole du Finistère’s ‘Coup de Cœur 2013’ prize for this script.

Waterproof

Sélection Annuelle 2012

Summer. The beach with its heroes, lifeguards Vincent and Pierre. But Vincent is bitter at always being second to Pierre, the dominant, swaggering top dog. His jealousy eats away at him. So when he finally WINS that damned open-water race, before realising that behind him Pierre is drowning… he hesitates. Two or three minutes too long. Pierre goes under. From the cliff top, Gilou, their eight-year-old fan, sees… what, exactly? Uneasy, Vincent, now the boss, starts wondering ten years later, when he sees the “kid” return, grown into an impressive sports champion : Pierre’s disturbing double…