Sean Connery's Granddaughter to Direct New Documentary for CAPA
Sean Connery's granddaughter is directing a new documentary about him.
Paris-based factual film and TV producer CAPA is developing Sean Connery: The Untold Story, Deadline reported on 24 September. The project is in development, meaning it is being prepared and financed before a full production is confirmed.
The film is being developed and directed by French journalist and TV presenter Stéphanie Renouvin. She is the French granddaughter of Connery and his second wife, Micheline Roquebrune. Roquebrune is a French Moroccan painter.
The story stays in the family. Renouvin has told part of it before. Her 2022 mini-series Mme Sean Connery centred on her grandmother and was made primarily for a French audience. That credit gives her a direct link to the people at the heart of the new film.
This time the reach is broader. The new documentary is a co-production, meaning several companies share the costs and production work, with Canal Plus attached in France. Sky is on board in the United Kingdom. The structure is common in factual television, where a project is built with partners in more than one country from the start.
Two more British companies are attached. London-based Embankment and Glasgow-based Boy 313 are named as co-producers on Sean Connery: The Untold Story. The line-up connects production bases in Paris, London and Glasgow, and points to a series designed to travel beyond a single national audience.
The documentary news came alongside a management change at CAPA, which sits within the Studio TF1 group. Sally Blake has been appointed Deputy Director, Deadline reported. She stepped into the role in early September.
Blake will work closely with CAPA managing director Patrice Lorton. She is not a newcomer to the company. She has worked as a producer with CAPA since 2017, a run of almost a decade that covers development and delivery of factual programmes.
For viewers, this means patience is needed. A documentary in development has a director, a subject and partners in place, but no confirmed transmission date or episode count yet. What is clear is who is telling the story, and from where.
What makes this stand out is access and perspective. A granddaughter behind the camera brings family knowledge that outside producers cannot claim. Paired with French and British backers, it sets up a portrait intended for audiences on both sides of the Channel.
