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Born to a French writer father and an English painter mother, she is the granddaughter of the British actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft, and the sister of the singer Emily Loizeau.After her studies at the IEP of Paris and an MPhil in Russian studies she left for Moscow where she remained for ten years. She worked for he BBC, Le Monde, the Nouvel Observateur and CAPA agency.She made her first documentary "Growing up under a straitjacket" on the in- ternats for disabled children in Russia, a film that will end up changing the law on disability in Russia.In 2006, she received the Albert-Londres Prize (french equivalent of the Pu- litzer Prize)) for her film directed with Alexis Marant <<Missing Women» (ARTE) about the unwanted girls of India, Pakistan and China. Committed to making forgotten voices heard, Manon Loizeau has directed numerous documentaries in Chechnya. Her last film there << Chechnya, war without traces" (ARTE), was awarded in many festivals in 2015 (Best do- cumentary award OMCT Prize at the FIFDH Geneva Festival, Best Film One World Film Festival, Grand Prix FIGRA)She directed documentaries in Iran including << Letters from Iran »> for ARTE filmed clandestinely with Iranian women for two years (Best Documentary Santa Barbara Film Festival, IDFA competition for Feature Length Do- cumentary, One World Festival, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, OMCT award at FIFDH, Grand Prix FIGRA ). She also filmed in Syria, Ye- men, Burma, Belarus.In 2017 she directed the film «< Silent War » for France 2 in which Syrian women testified for the first time on rape as a weapon of war in the prisons of Bashar al-Assad. This film received the OMCT Grand Prize at the FIFDH in Geneva, the Public Grand Prize at the DOK Leipzig Festival, the Edward Snowden Prize at the Lisbon Festival, and the special mention of the Prix Italia, Grand Prix at he PRIXMED, the Special Jury Prize atFIGRA)Manon Loizeau recently released << Life Ahead >> (<< La vie devant elle >>) a long feature documentary for France 2 on the diary of Elahe, a 14-year-old Afghan girl growing up on the roads of exile.She has just co directed with Ksenia Bolchakova << The Occupiers >> (Ukraine sur les traces des bourreaux) for ARTE.