After a Masters in Linguistics at the Sorbonne University, Juliette Lepoutre is offered a grant by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to study International business in the US. Living in San Francisco, she is quickly involved in the high tech business. She has worked for over fifteen years with Silicon Valley companies, where she specialized in developing international markets. Based in San Francisco, California from 1991 till 2006, her territories included Europe, Japan, Pacific Rim, and Latin America. She has fluency in both the language and cultural practices of those dominant markets.
In 2007 she cofounded the production company Movie Partners in Motion Film (MPM Film).
Rapidly, she produced the first feature films Hooked by Romanian director Adrian Sitaru (Venice Days 2008), Port of Memory by Palestinian Kamal Aljafari (Cinéma du Réel 2010) and the short film Flower Seller by Palestinian Ihab Jadallah (Clermont Ferrand 2011). She also coproduced The Turin Horse by Hungarian Béla Tarr (Silver Bear, Berlinale 2011) Historias by Brazilian Julia Murat (Venice Days and Toronto 2011), Tarr Béla, I used to be a filmmaker by French Jean-Marc Lamoure (FID Marseilles 2013).
In 2014, Juliette Lepoutre was producer on Dzma by Georgian Teona Mghvdeladze Grenade and French Thierry Grenade (Rotterdam 2014) and coproducer on Xenia by Greek Panos Koutras (Cannes Un Certain Regard 2014), NN by Peruvian Hector Galvez (Rome competition 2014, Rotterdam 2015) and Box by Romanian Florin Serban.
At Berlinale 2015 she announced partnership with Pierre Menahem in newly founded company, Still Moving. She is currently coproducing two new projects, Pendular, second feature by Julia Murat and Scarred Hearts by Radu Jude.
