Colette Colette Colette (; Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954) was a French mime, actress, journalist and novelist, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Colette was widely known for her 1944 novella "Gigi" (1944), which subsequently was the basis for the film and Lerner and Loewe stage production of the same name. The writer was the subject of numerous biographies, songs, and films, including 2018's "Colette". Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was born on January 28, 1873, to war hero and tax collector Jules-Joseph Colette and his wife Adèle Eugénie Sidonie ("Sido"), "née" Landoy, in the village of
Gabrielle Demeestere Gabrielle Demeestere Gabrielle Demeestere is a French filmmaker based in New York City. Demeestere attended New York University's MFA Film Program. While there she collaborated with James Franco and eleven other student filmmakers to co-direct "The Color of Time", a film on the life of poet C.K. Williams that starred Franco, Mila Kunis and Jessica Chastain. The film premiered at the 2012 Rome Film Festival. After working with Franco on "The Color of Time" he approached her about adapting two of his short stories from his collection "A California Childhood". Demeestere adapted them into her thesis film "Yosemite" which premiered