Loubna Régragui

Biography

Loubna Régragui is an independent film curator/preservationist and filmmaker with solid experience in an international, multicultural professional environment.

Loubna’s training in film preservation included participation in the ARCHIMEDIA European training network for the Promotion of Film Heritage, in addition she is a certified motion picture projectionist. She graduated from The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation, at the George Eastman Museum, where she had the opportunity to work on the private film collection of Martin Scorsese. Since then, Loubna has collaborated with major film festivals (Europe and US), with leading film archives (US and Europe) and with specialized film laboratories on film preservation programs and many prestigious restoration projects around the world. 

She is a film director and Paris-based producer. Written as an homage to the finest poet and director of Indian cinema, Mani Kaul, her debut film The Nine Lakh Stars had its world premiere at the prestigious International Film Festival in Rotterdam (IFFR 2022). She’s currently developing further feature films, and is writing a book on the cinema of Mani Kaul. 

In addition, Loubna is researching a doctoral thesis in Cinema Studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris. Her PhD dissertation investigates Technicolor’s dye-imbibition process in the US, notably through the exploration of the unique Technicolor collections conserved by the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY.