Filming Curren$y in 2010 in Pomona photo by Kasey Stokes
BIO
With a background in philosophy, art history and cinema, Marguerite de Bourgoing is a French - quarter British- film director whose work maps cultural movements across time: from 19th-century Creole Romanticism, to hip-hop and digital culture, to Bahia's street capoeira.
A pioneer of YouTube music storytelling with LA Stereo TV, she expanded her videos into her international documentary feature IT’S YOURS: Hip-Hop & the Internet, acquired by ARTE, now streaming globally. Her PBS 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 photographer Marc Riboud. She began her career at the Cinémathèque de la danse in Paris, later worked in production in Londond while filming at The Place, and eventually moved to Los Angeles to make films.
ARTIST STATEMENT
A documentarian at heart, as I am drawn to what constitutes the DNA of culture.
I believe that (a) the artist’s role has expanded as they use technology to reach out to new audiences and leverage ownership to their work (b) no story is too big or too small: it’s how you approach it (c) fiction and documentary are two sides of the same coin and (d) art changes lives.