Teddy Lussi-Modeste

Biography

Teddy Lussi-Modeste (born 25 March 1978) is a French Romani film director, screenwriter and literature teacher. He wrote and directed the films Jimmy Rivière (2011), The Price of Success (2017), and The Good Teacher (2024). Lussi-Modeste grew up in La Tronche, Grenoble, in a Sinti, Manush Romani community in France. Lussi-Modeste studied cinema at the film school La Fémis in Paris. He later became a literature teacher in high schools and colleges, before devoting himself entirely to cinema in the late 2000s. Lussi-Modeste started his career as a film director in 2004 with the short film Kis…