---
name: "Catherine Paillé"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/catherine-paille"
fi1m_id: "catherine-paille"
imdb_id: "nm1771591"
tmdb_id: 927416
wikidata_id: "Q15206001"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "25 December 1980"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-22T02:55:44.574777+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Catherine Paillé

## Identity

Catherine Paillé

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/catherine-paille
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** catherine-paille
- **IMDb ID:** nm1771591
- **TMDB ID:** 927416
- **Wikidata ID:** Q15206001
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15206001, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1771591/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/927416

Writer. Born 25 December 1980 in Les Sables-d'Olonne.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 25 December 1980, Les Sables-d'Olonne
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15206001, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1771591/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/927416

## Coming up

- *Mountain of Gold* (2026-11-11), Writer

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*All Hands on Deck!*](https://film.one/film/all-hands-on-deck.md) (77)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Catherine Paillé is a French screenwriter and director. She was born on 25 December 1980 in Les Sables-d'Olonne and studied philosophy and cinema at Paris-VIII before graduating from the screenplay department of La Fémis in 2005.

She has written or co-written numerous feature films, including *Shéhérazade* (2018), *Magnetic Beats* (2021), *All Hands on Deck!* (2020, also known as *À l'abordage*), *The Sixth Child* (2022) and *A Place to Fight For* (2023). She has frequently collaborated with directors such as Samuel Collardey and Léa Fehner. Paillé also directed the 2010 short film *Le bel été*.

Her work has received awards including the SACD Prize at Cannes in 2021 for *Magnetic Beats* and the Valois for best screenplay at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival in 2022 for *The Sixth Child*. In 2026 she served on the jury of the San Sebastián International Film Festival.

*Sources: imdb.com, fr.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *All Hands on Deck!* (2021), Fi1m 77, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/all-hands-on-deck.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Mountain of Gold* (2026), Writer
- *Summer Beats* (2026), Screenplay
- *Savages* (2024), Screenplay
- *Midwives* (2023), Screenplay
- *A Place to Fight For* (2023), Co-Writer
- *The Sixth Child* (2022), Writer
- *Magnetic Beats* (2021), Screenplay
- *All Hands on Deck!* (2021), Writer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/all-hands-on-deck.md)
- *Shéhérazade* (2018), Screenplay
- *A Polar Year* (2018), Screenplay
- *Daguerrotype* (2016), Writer
- *Ogres* (2016), Writer
- *Land Legs* (2016), Writer
- *Gente de bien* (2014), Writer
- *Tonnerre* (2014), Co-Writer
- *Little Lion* (2013), Screenplay
- *A Better Life* (2011), Screenplay
- *Eastern Drift* (2010), Writer
- *The Apprentice* (2008), Writer
- *Kissing Tigers* (2004), Screenplay
- *Conflit de canards* (2004), Writer
- *Isabelle*, Screenplay

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