Born in Dijon in 1960, Patricia Mazuy was a good student who aspired to attend the Louis Lumière Film School, but she entered HEC Business School to fulfil her father’s wishes, a baker. There, she confirmed her love of westerns and thrillers, discovered The Doors, who were already dead, and left school for Los Angeles. There, she shot a short film on her salary as a babysitter and met Agnès Varda and her editor Sabine Mamou. Three years later, Mamou hired her as a trainee on A Room in Town by Jacques Demy, and finally, she learned about cinema. After editing Vagabond by Agnès Varda, she turned her attention to her first film, Thick Skinned, in 1989. Her notable works include Saint-Cyr (2000), Sports de filles (2011), and Visiting Hours (La Prisonnière de Bordeaux).