With a background in philosophy, art history and communication, Marguerite de Bourgoing is a French film director whose work maps the DNA of cultural movements.
Her career started at the Cinémathèque de la danse in Paris, before moving to London to work in television production. In 2009 during the explosion of social media, she established herself in Los Angeles to study audiences online and focus on documentary filmmaking.
A pioneer of YouTube music storytelling with LA Stereo TV at the height of the blog era, she captured Kendrick Lamar's first show in 2010, interviewed Issa Rae, Action Bronson and Future and profiled Odd Future, the Internet and Vince Staples at their debuts, amongst many others.
She expanded that work into two independent documentary features, THE WORLD IS YOURS that premiered on France Televisions in 2014 and IT’S YOURS: Hip-Hop & the Internet, that had its US festival debut at the Pan-African Film Festival of Los Angeles in 2020, and toured in France, the UK, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, France, USA and the Netherlands. It was acquired by European broadcaster ARTE in 2021, and is streaming on Tubi, Prime, Apple TV and Canal VOD.
Her 2023 PBS web series Hip-Hop & the Metaverse won a Golden Mike Award and earned Los Angeles Press Award and Emmy nominations.
In 2025, she joined the Villa Albertine in New Orleans to research Edmond Dédé, the first known American composer of color to produce a grand opera, written while exiled in France. She is directing a film about his life.
Marguerite studied at the Sorbonne, Oxford, and USC. Her mentor was documentary photographer Marc Riboud.
Filming Curren$y in 2010 in Pomona photo by Kasey Stokes