Me too

Biographies

• Camille Teste

  Camille Teste is a journalist and author. In 2023, she published Politiser le bien-être (La collection sur la table), an essay that examines the place of well-being in neoliberal society and in the activist world. Camille is also host of the podcast Encore heureux (Binge audio), which links the subject of mental health to major societal issues. Taken as a whole, her work aims to explore fairer, happier and freer ways of making society.

• David Cohen

  David Cohen is an alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure, Doctor of Neuroscience, Professor at Sorbonne University and Head of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris. He is also a member of theInstitut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotiques (ISIR) and a corresponding member of theAcadémie de Médecine. He supports a developmental and plastic vision of child psychopathology, in terms of both understanding and treatment. His team takes a multidisciplinary approach, collaborating with molecular biologists, methodologists, psychologists, sociologists and engineers. As a member of ISIR, he collaborates with several engineers in the Perception, Interaction and Social Robotics team (see http://speapsl.aphp.fr). He was president of the International Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (IACAPAP) congress held in Paris in 2012. In addition to his work as a psychiatrist, he is also a visual artist (see http://www.dcohen.biz/).

• Michel Gondry

  Michel Gondry began making music videos in the 80s, after studying drawing in Paris; first for Oui Oui, his own band of which he is the drummer, then for other groups. Particularly prolific, over the years he has established himself as one of the world’s most renowned clippers, rapidly exporting his work abroad, collaborating not only with his muse Björk, but also with The Rolling Stones, The Chemical Brothers, IAM, Radiohead, Kylie Minogue and The Whites Stripes.

  Michel Gondry directed his first feature, Human Nature, in 2001, which was selected at Cannes. In 2005, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind won him the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, shared with Charlie Kaufman and Pierre Bismuth. His next films, The Science of Dreams and Be Nice, Rewind, were selected for the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals. He followed this up with Tokyo, a multinational film made up of three shorts directed by Bong Joon-Ho, Leos Carax and himself, and presented at Cannes in 2008. He then directed L’Épine dans le cœur, presented in the Official Selection in 2009. In 2010, he adapted The Green Hornet, then shot The We And The I in the Bronx in 2011. Michel Gondry then adapted a famous novel by Boris Vian with a singular universe, L’Écume des jours, and in 2015 he returned to the screen with Microbe and Gasoil. In 2018, he directed ten episodes of the Kidding series, again starring Jim Carrey. In 2023, he makes his long-awaited return to cinema with The Book of Solutions.

• Florence Mendez

  Florence Mendez is a Belgian-Spanish comedian and author born in 1987. She made her stage debut in 2016 at the Kings of Comedy Club in Ixelles, where she opened for artists such as Alex Vizorek, Guillermo Guiz and Laurence Bibot. She made a name for herself as a comedian with her show Délicate, which tackled, among other things, the subject of autism without disability, of which she is a carrier. In addition to her career as a comedian, Florence Mendez works as a columnist for a number of radio and TV programs, including France Inter and the program Piquantes! presented by Nicole Ferroni on TEVA. Since 2024, she has joined Guillaume Meurice’s La Dernière program on Radio Nova. She is known for her piquant, jubilant style of humor, tackling themes such as her past as a teacher, her complicated relationships and human stupidity, which she denounces with fierce, funny punchlines. She claims to be an intersectional feminist and anti-racist, and campaigns to break taboos around mental health and neuroatypia. In 2024, she published her first novel, Accident de personne (éditions Massot), in which she develops themes close to her heart, such as mental health and the difficulty of finding one’s place when one is different.

• Tolten

  Florence Mendez is a Belgian-Spanish comedian and author born in 1987. She made her stage debut in 2016 at the Kings of Comedy Club in Ixelles, where she opened for artists such as Alex Vizorek, Guillermo Guiz and Laurence Bibot. She made a name for herself as a comedian with her show Délicate, which tackled, among other things, the subject of autism without disability, of which she is a carrier. In addition to her career as a comedian, Florence Mendez works as a columnist for a number of radio and TV programs, including France Inter and the program Piquantes! presented by Nicole Ferroni on TEVA. Since 2024, she has joined Guillaume Meurice’s La Dernière program on Radio Nova. She is known for her piquant, jubilant style of humor, tackling themes such as her past as a teacher, her complicated relationships and human stupidity, which she denounces with fierce, funny punchlines. She claims to be an intersectional feminist and anti-racist, and campaigns to break taboos around mental health and neuroatypia. In 2024, she published her first novel, Accident de personne (éditions Massot), in which she develops themes close to her heart, such as mental health and the difficulty of finding one’s place when one is different.