Born in Toulouse (France) in 1981 into a travelling theatre background, Léa Fehner decides to study film. Following a time at INSAS (Belgium), she enters the screenplay section of FEMIS and graduates in 2006 with congratulations from the jury.
She has directed four shorts: "Caillou", "Dora", "Ceux qui tiennent les murs" and "Sauf le silence", which was selected for several international festivals and shown on CANAL +.
During her studies she went on two internships abroad, one at the film centre in Bamako, the other in Cambodia, alongside Rithy Panh.
Her first feature is "Qu'un seul tienne et les autres suivront" (2008) with Rezo Productions. Its screenplay is the result of a lot of documentary research at Fleury Merogis prison. She was the winner of the 9th Emergence session in 2007 and received the Prix Junior for Best Screenplay, attributed unanimously, for this same project.