Director Jenifer Yeuroukis wants to make the Duanju series dance between Los Angeles and Paris

American director and choreographer Jenifer Yeuroukis is establishing herself as a rising star in vertical cinema. Coming from the world of dance, she has already created several duanju films in the United States, notably for the MyDrama and NetShort platforms. Her ability to combine direction, choreography, and intimate direction makes her one of the rare creators capable of giving the vertical format a true emotional grammar. Today, she is preparing projects shot in Europe, particularly in France. For her, duanju offers a new way of storytelling, faster, more mobile, and closer to the viewer.

A transatlantic bridge for vertical cinema

Jenifer Yeuroukis is currently developing several co-production projects to be shot in Europe, particularly in France, with local crews and American actors from short fiction platforms. The idea is to combine methods and talents to build a sustainable model. Europe, she explains, offers a production flexibility that the United States has partly lost under the weight of large unions. This new balance makes it possible to imagine lighter shoots, better adapted to the rhythm of the vertical format. "Each culture brings something valuable. None does everything perfectly," she summarizes. For the director, France could become one of the poles of this renewal, where American professionalism and the European tradition of auteur cinema would meet.

Women at the heart of renewal

This transnational approach is accompanied by a strong commitment to filming conditions and the place of women in the industry. Yeuroukis, who began as a choreographer before becoming a director and intimacy coordinator, defends a demanding but caring vision of the set. For her, respect for the body and human balance is inseparable from artistic quality. "There is economics, and there is pettiness: one builds an industry, the other destroys it," she reminds us. Through her technical rigor and directorial sensitivity, she embodies this new generation of female directors who are redefining the codes of filming: fast, precise, but deeply attentive to the human dimension of acting.

Jenifer Yeuroukis illustrates the maturity of the vertical format. By seeking to unite Los Angeles and Paris, she traces the contours of a new cinema, more flexible, fairer, and resolutely global.

Interview conducted by Maëlle Billant

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