Ania Szczepanska is a senior lecturer at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, author and documentary filmmaker. Her film, We film the people! (Abacaris, Les films de l'air, Ciné+, 2012) looks back at the golden age of Polish cinema. She also directed Solidarnosc, how solidarity changed Europe (LOOKSfilm, Arte-NDR, 2019). She draws on archives discovered in Poland and never before broadcast on the control of opponents by the militia. Her latest book Une histoire visuelle de Solidarnosc (FMSH, 2021) looks at the visual, audiovisual and cinematographic traces of the first free trade union in Communist Poland. She is currently working with Bachibouzouk/Les poissons volants on a film about the archaeological digs carried out and filmed at Auschwitz in the 1960s and the objects discovered. Author of dozens of articles on cinema, archives and history, she is co-author with Sylvie Lindeperg of Who owns the images? on audiovisual archives and their uses in the documentary production (Meson press, 2021). As head of the archive editing workshop at Paris 1, which grew out of a partnership with ECPAD (French army film archives), she runs a number of scientific and educational projects at the University of Paris 1.