Linda Tahir-Meriau

Holding a master's degree in film studies focusing on color in Alfred Hitchcock's work, Linda Tahir-Meriau teaches film economics and directing at Paris VIII University.

She hosts the monthly magazine program Ciné Vintage on the MCE channel. Since 2001, she has worked in partnership with Christophe Champclaux at Rose Night, producing documentaries about cinema broadcast on television channels in some twenty countries, and subsequently included as bonus features on Blu-ray and DVD releases of classic films by Billy Wilder, Orson Welles, Raoul Walsh, Anthony Mann, John Sturges, Henry Hathaway, Richard Brooks, Richard Fleischer... and, of course, Alfred Hitchcock! In 2007, she directed the documentary *The Territories of the Western* in the United States and Spain, which aired the following year on Ciné Cinéma.

In 2014, she directed *A Crime and Two Masters*, a 52-minute documentary focusing on Alfred Hitchcock and Richard Fleischer's handling of the Leopold and Loeb case, included on the Blu-ray of Fleischer's film *Compulsion*. In 2015, she directed a portrait of Humphrey Bogart and is currently working on a documentary about Gene Tierney.