Sabrina Van Tassel

Sabrina Van Tassel is a FrenchAmerican director and a journalist living in France As an investigative reporter for French TV she has directed over 40 documentary films since 2004 for major television documentary programs Focusing mainly on social matters such as under age sex trafficking children in the white nationalist movement and school bullying Simultaneously she has been directing feature documentaries Married for Worse 2004 exploring the world of two young women forced into marriage Shalom India Tsahals Lost Soldiers 2008 about young Israeli soldiers recently discharged from the army who go to India for their big trip and Rivkas Tribe 2010 the amazing tale of six brothers and sisters surviving the Holocaust in France The Silenced Walls 2015 is her first documentary theatrically released It was critically acclaimed by the French press It tells her journey to discover the history of the Drancy camp the biggest internment camp in France where the majority of French Jews were detained before being deported to the death camps during the Second World War I discovered that the Drancy Camp still existed while filming my previous documentary Rivkas Tribe I was convinced that it had been destroyed more than half a century ago When I got there I was overwhelmed to see that the old camp intact and that people were living in this pace haunted by grief Her quest for answers lasted three years