Wichita films

Cinema tells the story of America. Wichita Films reveals the stories behind it.

Founded by filmmakers and producers Clara and Julia Kuperberg, Wichita Films has spent nearly twenty years developing documentaries about cinema, history, and the major issues shaping American society. Across more than sixty films, the two sisters have explored Hollywood behind the scenes, its legendary figures, and the questions of representation, power, and memory that run through American culture. Their documentaries were selected for two consecutive years at both the Cannes and Deauville film festivals, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood, and showcased at numerous prestigious festivals around the world, where they received several awards.

Their films are distributed worldwide, with a particularly strong presence in the United States on leading platforms including Amazon Prime Video, Peacock, HBO, TCM, Hulu, Tubi, Binge, and Apple TV, as well as through Kino Lorber.
Recently, Clara and Julia Kuperberg completed a series of documentaries devoted to American history, exploring the 1920s, the representation of Native Americans and Latinos in Hollywood, and the history of abortion in the United States. Their latest film, Beyond the Border: Latino Representation in Hollywood, won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2026 Beverly Hills Film Festival and the Best Directors Award at the 2026 Miami South Beach Film Festival.

Our movies

  • Documentaries
Marilyn Monroe, I’m so Many People

Marilyn Monroe, I’m so Many People

2026
The documentary explores the real woman behind Marilyn Monroe’s iconic image, revealing her as intelligent, disciplined, perfectionist, and deeply aware of how Hollywood worked.
Hollywood and Hitler

Hollywood and Hitler

2026
As Nazism took hold in Germany as early as 1933, Hollywood adopted an ambiguous stance.
Beyond the BorderLatino Representation in Hollywood

Beyond the Border
Latino Representation in Hollywood

2026
Since the 1920s, Hollywood cast Latinos as bandits, exotic dancers, or anonymous foreigners, often even replaced by white actors in disguise.
Hollywood Babylon

Hollywood Babylon

2025
Before morality descended upon Hollywood in 1934, the movie capital looked a lot like Sodom and Gomorrah. Damien Chazelle’s film Babylon evokes that wild era when the film industry was steeped in …
Dirty Hollywood Where Gangsters Never Die

Dirty Hollywood
Where Gangsters Never Die

2025
From James Cagney to Joe Pesci, from Dustin Hoffman to Jon Voight, Dirty Hollywood tells the story of the long, strange romance between Hollywood and real-life criminals.
Martin Scorsese, My Life in Music

Martin Scorsese, My Life in Music

2024
Martin Scorsese is renowned for his masterful use of music in his films. His relationship with music is deep and complex; he considers it a crucial element of cinematic storytelling.
Vincente Minnelli, Movies that Stay With You

Vincente Minnelli, Movies that Stay With You

2024
Vincente Minnelli, a prolific artist, left a lasting mark on the Golden Age of Hollywood with his distinctive talent and innovative approach to directing.
Bearing WitnessNative American Voices in Hollywood

Bearing Witness
Native American Voices in Hollywood

2024
For over 100 years, Hollywood cinema has crafted the ultimate “villain”—the Indian, as they were labeled in early Westerns. which became a vehicle for American racism, obscuring the genocide upon …
America, The Battle for Abortion

America, The Battle for Abortion

2024
On June 24, 2022, a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the right to abortion is no longer a constitutional right. Each of the 50 U.S. states is now free to ban it
From Improv to IconThe Journey of Mike Nichols

From Improv to Icon
The Journey of Mike Nichols

2023
In the 1960s, the success of his film “The Graduate” paved the way for a new generation of directors who would become what is known as the “New Hollywood,” shaking up an aging industry.
Mary Pickford, a blessing and a curse

Mary Pickford, a blessing and a curse

2023
The name Mary Pickford remains inextricably linked to the legend of American cinema. She, who invented the star system at the beginning of the 20th century and became the greatest star ever known
Dorothy Arzner, Pioneer, Queer, Feminist

Dorothy Arzner, Pioneer, Queer, Feminist

2023
Arzner worked within a patriarchal system; that of the American moguls who controlled Hollywood, yet she dressed like a man, openly embraced her homosexuality at a time when it was almost …
Cary Grant, the Man He Dreamed of Being

Cary Grant, the Man He Dreamed of Being

2022
To talk about Cary Grant is to tell the story of more than half a century of cinema, that of an absolute icon, unparalleled, an exceptional actor as no longer exists, the charm, the composure, …
The True Story of the Barrymores

The True Story of the Barrymores

2022
Telling the story of the Barrymores is to recount more than a century of cinema and the history of an art that they revolutionized. It’s also about recounting Hollywood, the crushing machine, and …
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue

Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue

2022
It’s the story of a singer who enjoyed worldwide success from her first album, a unique voice, her atypical crystal clear voice, a unique guitar style that has spoken to a whole generation.
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony

2022
What destined this young boy from Wales to become the incarnation of absolute evil when he took on the role of cinema’s most notorious serial killer?
Ida Lupino: Gentlemen & Miss Lupino

Ida Lupino: Gentlemen & Miss Lupino

2021
Ida Lupino, the only woman immersed in the heart of a masculine Hollywood, is not only the film noir actress who replicates Bogart, she is above all a great director that history has forgotten. …
Hollywood So French!

Hollywood So French!

2021
When we talk about France and French people in Hollywood, it’s always the same thing: Love, seduction, arts, Parisian women, the French-lover, the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe.
Jack Lemmon, a true Trouper

Jack Lemmon, a true Trouper

2021
Jack Lemmon was born into a well-to-do New England family of Irish extraction. A lonely child he sort of liberated himself by acting in school productions and decided at the age of eight that he …
Rita Hayworth, from Gilda to Rita

Rita Hayworth, from Gilda to Rita

2020
In the light of all the changes that are happening all over the world, we need to tell the story of Rita Hayworth. But this time not through the film critic size or the cinephiles eyes but …
William Holden between shadow & light

William Holden between shadow & light

2020
William Holden was one of the great Hollywood stars of the ‘50s. And at the end of his career, even in the ‘70s, I mean, he still was well-known among most people.  Unfortunately, in …
Gary Cooper, the Irresistible

Gary Cooper, the Irresistible

2020
Gary Cooper´s daughter, Maria Cooper Janis, talks about the acting career of her father who did his own research on “who that man was he was going to portray”. You believed the character he …
Yellowface Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

Yellowface
Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

2019
Until today, the whitewashing is a racist tradition in Hollywood, and as the “blackface”, the “yellowface” was used in Hollywood as a propaganda tool and manifestation of the racism. The attack …
The Witches of Hollywood

The Witches of Hollywood

2019
Throughout time, witches have represented many things for women; maturity, sexuality, rebirth, revenge and feminism.
The Max Factor

The Max Factor

2018
The man who created the faces of Hollywood was born in Poland and became the wigmaker and make-up artist to the Court of Tsar Nicolas II. Because of rampant antisemitism in the early 1900s, he …
I, Douglas Fairbanks

I, Douglas Fairbanks

2018
The dashing and dazzling Douglas Fairbanks was the movie star who “swash buckled in Zorro, dueled exuberantly in Robin Hood and soared magnificently in The Thief of Bagdad”. He was the “First …
The Tiki Craze of Hollywood

The Tiki Craze of Hollywood

2018
Hawaii joined the United States in 1959 and became its 50th state. Hollywood was quick to discover the fabulous location and the native art of the Pacific which turned into a synthetic exotic …
Hollywood : No Sex Please!

Hollywood : No Sex Please!

2017
Deep rooted religious beliefs seemingly going back to the Pilgrim Fathers’ puritanism dominate a society which is entertained by violence no end on a daily basis. If it is true that American …
Hollywood Spies

Hollywood Spies

2017
Hollywood, as we now know from declassified National Archive documents, aided in the mobilization for war and its people contributed as spies, combatants, propagandists, documentary and …
Gene Tierney A Forgotten Star

Gene Tierney A Forgotten Star

2016
According to Martin Scorsese « Gene Tierney was the most underrated star in Hollywood ». Gene Tierney’s life story would perfectly lend itself to a screenplay for a successful Hollywood …
Hollywood Gossip

Hollywood Gossip

2016
Nowadays we are used to the most compromising selfies and Facebook and there is very little privacy for so called public persons. This was not the case when Hollywood was set up. One assumed that …
Ronald Reagan A Custom Made President

Ronald Reagan A Custom Made President

2016
In 1967, NewYork Police Department detective Ralph Salerno, made a prediction: “Organized Crime will put a man into the White House someday – and he won’t ever know until they hand him the bill”. …
Billy Wilder Nobody’s Perfect

Billy Wilder Nobody’s Perfect

2016
“Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts”, Billy …
The Women Who Run Hollywood

The Women Who Run Hollywood

2015
The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy; the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more than 300 films over 10 years. Frances Marion wrote …
Hollywood Censored

Hollywood Censored

2015
With the Great Depression and evaporating income cinema attendance fell drastically, to counter this trend Hollywood became more and more violent and sexy, to a point that a call for censorship …
Screwball Comedy When Hollywood Went Mad

Screwball Comedy When Hollywood Went Mad

2015
The film critic Andrew Sarris defined a Screwball Comedy as “sex comedy without sex”. And indeed the leading characters keep fighting each other as long as possible. When two people would fall in …
This is Orson Welles

This is Orson Welles

2015
Misunderstood genius, superstar, Hollywood’s fallen angel, Orson Welles left his indelible mark on the 20th century. Yet how to talk about Welles without falling into overstatement and …
Los Angeles Film Noir

Los Angeles Film Noir

2015
The approach to the subject matter is innovative in so far as it focus on Los Angeles as the model for urban crime. And who else would be better suited to talk about the underbelly of the city …
Steve Schapiro An Eye on American Icons

Steve Schapiro An Eye on American Icons

2014
“If you ́re on peoples wavelength and care about them”, says Schapiro, “they are very responsive”. How responsive you will see when Schapiro takes you through his most important work which will …
The Warner Saga

The Warner Saga

2014
The Warner Brothers’ career is a true “rags to riches” story. They very quickly sensed that there was more money to be made with film than with the paternal shop in Youngtown, Ohio. When Sam …
Hollywood the Indestructible

Hollywood the Indestructible

2014
in the 1920s, Hollywood was flush with money and they started building these fantastic movie palaces; it offered people who lived in tenements who were crowded and non air-conditioned a wonderful …
Sidney Korshak Hollywood’s Fabled Fixer

Sidney Korshak Hollywood’s Fabled Fixer

2013
FBI man Bill Roemer considered Korshak to have been nothing less than “the most important contact that the Mob had to legitimate business, labour, Hollywood and Las Vegas”. And Nick Toshes …
In Search of the Ideal Male made in Hollywood

In Search of the Ideal Male made in Hollywood

2013
Critic Molly Haskell says “when I think of male types in the cinema the images of men through the years and how they change I don’t really see it in terms of evolution, of progress. I really …
John Ford & Monument Valley

John Ford & Monument Valley

2013
Who else could talk with authority about the record Oscar winning director John Ford but one of his favorite actors, John Wayne. And he does so in his documentary mainly on horseback and at …
The Teen Movie Boom

The Teen Movie Boom

2012
The Teen Movie is a genre like the Western or the Film noir and reflects American culture or subculture and thereby has a huge influence on the younger generations worldwide.
The Witch Hunt is On!

The Witch Hunt is On!

2012
« Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the communist party? » This is the question thousands of Americans were forced to answer during the years of anti-communist paranoia.
Milos Forman Taking Off in America

Milos Forman Taking Off in America

2011
During one hour, the film director Milos Forman tells his journey from Czechoslovakia to Hollywood. Through anecdotes, Milos Forman explains how he succeeded in Hollywood and how difficult …
Hollywood between Paranoia & Sci-Fi The Power of Myth

Hollywood between Paranoia & Sci-Fi
The Power of Myth

2010
Extra-terrestrials, the end of the world, nuclear war, visions of doom, giant tsunamis, devastating meteorites, invaders of every sort: For over 50 years, the American movie industry has …
Stanley Donen, You Just Do It

Stanley Donen, You Just Do It

2010
Since he was a child, Stanley Donen attended dance classes and debuted on Broadway at age 17. With the help of the producer Arthur Freed and the actor Gene Kelly he got the chance to direct the …
From Weepies to Chick Flicks

From Weepies to Chick Flicks

2009
Since the mid-80’s, the so called chick flick genre has grown into an authentic cultural and sociological phenomenon in the film industry reflecting the dreams and longings of modern young women …
The Art of Spiegelman

The Art of Spiegelman

2009
Pulitzer Prize winner Art Spiegelman is best known for his creation of MAUS, which in the form of comics retraces his parents’ story as they survived the Holocaust. He worked for The New Yorker …
The True Story of John Dillinger

The True Story of John Dillinger

2009
Michael Mann directed his latest movie Public Enemies, with Johnny Depp as the famous gangster John Dillinger. While the film inspired by the Bryan Burrough’s famous best-seller romanticizes the …
Broadway goes Hollywood

Broadway goes Hollywood

2008
Musical comedy is a typical American form of entertainment dealing with burning issues of the American society from slavery to depression and World War II to Vietnam War.
The Brother who sent the Rosenbergs to the Electric Chair

The Brother who sent
the Rosenbergs to the Electric Chair

2008
In July 1950 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, both American citizens, were arrested by the FBI for delivering vital information on the US nuclear program to the Soviet Union. They both insisted that …
The Silver Screen Revolution : New Faces in Hollywood

The Silver Screen Revolution :
New Faces in Hollywood

2008
This is the story of how a handful of young and enthusiastic filmmakers stormed the citadel of the American movie industry and created a new cinema. It was an age when talented young people like …
Sinatra a Song for the FBI

Sinatra a Song for the FBI

2007
Who knows that the FBI had a file of 1275 pages about Frank Sinatra, by far the largest on any show biz personality. What interested the FBI most was Sinatra’s relations with organized crime, his …
Dominick Dunne In search of Justice

Dominick Dunne In search of Justice

2007
This documentary is the story of the extraordinary life story of Dominick Dunne, best known as an investigative journalist and writer for Vanity Fair, for successful novels and also the presenter …
The Dark Side of the FBI

The Dark Side of the FBI

2006
Since its foundation the FBI has always been shrouded in mystery but when J.Edgar Hoover took over he made it into one of the most brilliant search engines of our time. Hoover was at the helm of …
James Ellroy «American Dog»

James Ellroy «American Dog»

2006
This is the story of a life-long obsession, the life in question being James Ellroy’s. From a news item, the murder of the Black Dahlia, to the slaying of his mother, this is the initiatory …
Martin Scorsese The Emotion through the Music

Martin Scorsese
The Emotion through the Music

2005
From Taxi Driver, for which he hired the great Bernard Herrmann, meet with New York New York, or The Last Waltz, until now, as he produces a series of documentaries about Blues music, and even …
The Screen Actors Guild in Hollywood

The Screen Actors Guild in Hollywood

2004
When everyone thinks of Hollywood, the Golden years of Hollywood, all you see is beauty everything in the screen, the lines of chorus girls are all smiling, happy and everyone …
The Howard Hughes Mystery

The Howard Hughes Mystery

2004
Directors : Clara Kuperberg & Robert KuperbergProducer : Program 33Year : 2004Running time : 52 minutesChannel : France 5 Casting Richard HackAuthor of the biography about Howard Hughes Pat …
Joseph Campbell : The Hero with the Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell : The Hero with the Thousand Faces

2004
All stories are myths. For all stories make up the mosaic of myth, what Campbell called the “modern myths”. So it doesn’t matter whether it is a movie, a novel, an opera or indeed a new story. It …
The Hollywood Exiled

The Hollywood Exiled

2003
Directors : Clara Kuperberg & Robert KuperbergProduced by Program 33 Year : 2003Running Time : 52 minutesNetwork : Planète Casting Norma BarzmanBlacklisted Screenwriter Bernard …
The Secret Story of Universal Studio

The Secret Story of Universal Studio

2003
Directors : Clara Kuperberg & Robert KuperbergProducer : Program 33 Year : 2003Running Time : 52 minutes Channel : Ciné Cinéma Casting Dennis McDougall Journalist at the LA Times and …
Dean Tavoularis : The Magician of Hollywood

Dean Tavoularis : The Magician of Hollywood

2003
Directors : Clara Kuperberg & Robert KuperbergProducer: Program 33 Year : 2003Running Time : 52 minutes Channel : Ciné Cinéma Casting Francis Ford Coppola Warren Beatty Roman Polanski Gérard …
Sweet Smell of Corruption

Sweet Smell of Corruption

2003
An investigative journalist specializing in organized crime, Sally Denton examines the hidden ties that still connect Las Vegas mob bosses to the highest levels of American power.She reveals how …
George Sidney in Hollywood

George Sidney in Hollywood

2002
Known as cinema’s elegant and refined “little master,” George Sidney recounts, in his final interview, the story of a Hollywood that has now disappeared. Through archival footage and clips from …
Surf Now, Apocalypse Later

Surf Now, Apocalypse Later

2002
Marshmallow-sweet romances, convertibles, drive-ins and nighttime beach parties fueled by Coca-Cola and milkshakes: this reassuring image of youth—symbolizing a conformist America enjoying an …

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Screening “Hollywood and Hitler”

Screening “Hollywood and Hitler”

26 August 2026
August 26th at 7pm at the Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, followed by a Q&A with the film … Read more
The Hollywood Times

The Hollywood Times

5 August 2026
The Hollywood Times praises Clara and Julia Kuperberg’s work in Beyond the Border, calling it a … Read more
La Cinémathèque Française World Premiere

La Cinémathèque Française World Premiere

29 June 2026
On June 29, 2026, La Cinémathèque française hosted the world premiere of Marilyn Monroe, I’m So … Read more
Interview with Clara and Julia Kuperberg

Interview with Clara and Julia Kuperberg

17 June 2026
Magic Image Hollywood Magazine presents an exclusive interview with French documentary … Read more

VOD / DVD

Mary Pickford, a blessing and a curse

Mary Pickford, a blessing and a curse

Vod
2024
Mary Pickford’s name remains inseparable from the legend of American cinema. She invented the star system at the beginning of the 20th century.
3,99$ to rent / 9,99$ to buy
Dorothy Arzner, Pioneer, Queer, Feminist

Dorothy Arzner, Pioneer, Queer, Feminist

Vod
2024
A true feminist pioneer, she nevertheless created essentially female characters, atypical and modern heroines, often ready to do anything to renounce their predestination.
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Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony

Vod
2024
What destined this young boy from Wales to become the incarnation of absolute evil when he took on the role of cinema’s most notorious serial killer? How do you get from the bricks of Port …
3,99$ to rent / 9,99$ to buy
Ida Lupino: Gentlemen & Miss Lupino

Ida Lupino: Gentlemen & Miss Lupino

Vod
2022
Ida Lupino, the only woman immersed in the heart of a masculine Hollywood, is not only the film noir actress who replicates Bogart, she is above all a great director that history has forgotten.
3,99$ to rent / 9,99$ to buy
The Women Who Run Hollywood

The Women Who Run Hollywood

Vod
2021
The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy; the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more than 300 films over 10 years.
3,99$ to rent / 9,99$ to buy
The Witches of Hollywood

The Witches of Hollywood

Vod
Vod
2020
Throughout time, witches have represented many things for women; maturity, sexuality, rebirth, revenge and feminism. Witches are characters who often live in a society that oppresses or fears …
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Ronald Reagan A Custom Made President

Ronald Reagan A Custom Made President

Vod
2019
In 1967, NewYork Police Department detective Ralph Salerno, made a prediction: “Organized Crime will put a man into the White House someday – and he won’t ever know until they hand him the bill”. …
3,99$ to rent / 9,99$ to buy
Hollywood No Sex Please!

Hollywood No Sex Please!

Vod
2018
Deep rooted religious beliefs seemingly going back to the Pilgrim Fathers’ puritanism dominate a society which is entertained by violence no end on a daily basis. If it is true that American …
3,99$ to rent / 9,99$ to buy
The Max Factor

The Max Factor

Vod
2018
In 1935 he had created a make-up empire which allowed him to ask the famous architect S. Charles Lee to build an art-deco office for him which is now the Hollywood Museum in Los Angeles.
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Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing & Racism in Hollywood

Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing & Racism in Hollywood

Vod
2018
Until today, the whitewashing is a racist tradition in Hollywood, and as the “blackface”, the “yellowface” was used in Hollywood as a propaganda tool and manifestation of the racism.
3,99$ to rent / 9,99$ to buy
Hollywood Gossip

Hollywood Gossip

Vod
2016
Nowadays we are used to the most compromising selfies and Facebook and there is very little privacy for so called public persons. This was not the case when Hollywood was set up. One assumed that …
3,99$ to rent / 9,99$ to buy
Gene Tierney, a Forgotten Star

Gene Tierney, a Forgotten Star

Vod
2016
According to Martin Scorsese « Gene Tierney was the most underrated star in Hollywood ». Gene Tierney’s life story would perfectly lend itself to a screenplay for a successful Hollywood movie …
3,99$ to rent / 9,99$ to buy
Hollywood Spies

Hollywood Spies

Vod
2016
In the National Archives we discover that stars as Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Leslie Howard, Josephine Baker, John Ford and many more, were spies for the Allies, and changed the …
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Billy Wilder Nobody’s Perfect

Billy Wilder Nobody’s Perfect

Vod
2016
“Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts”
3,99$ to rent / 9,99$ to buy
L.A Film Noir

L.A Film Noir

Vod
2015
The approach to the subject matter is innovative in so far as it focus on Los Angeles as the model for urban crime. And who else would be better suited to talk about the underbelly of the city …
3,99$ to rent / 9,99$ to buy
This is Orson Welles

This is Orson Welles

Vod
2015
Watch the film here: Misunderstood genius, superstar, Hollywood’s fallen angel, Orson Welles left his indelible mark on the 20th century. Yet how to talk about Welles without falling …
3,99$ to rent / 9,99$ to buy
Sidney Korshak, Hollywood’s Fabled Fixer

Sidney Korshak, Hollywood’s Fabled Fixer

Vod
2013
FBI man Bill Roemer considered Korshak to have been nothing less than “the most important contact that the Mob had to legitimate business, labour, Hollywood and Las Vegas”.
3,99$ to rent / 9,99$ to buy
The Witch Hunt is on!

The Witch Hunt is on!

Vod
2011
“Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the communist party?” This is the question thousands of Americans were forced to answer during the years of anti-communist paranoia.
3,99$ to rent / 9,99$ to buy
Milos Forman Taking Off in America

Milos Forman Taking Off in America

Vod
2011
During one hour, the film director Milos Forman tells his journey from Czechoslovakia to Hollywood. Through anecdotes, Milos Forman explains…
3,99$ to rent / 9,99$ to buy
The Brother who sent the Rosenbergs on the electric chair

The Brother
who sent the Rosenbergs on the electric chair

Vod
2008
In July 1950 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, both American citizens, were arrested by the FBI for delivering vital information on the US nuclear programme to the Soviet Union.
3,99$ to rent / 9,99$ to buy
James Ellroy «American Dog»

James Ellroy «American Dog»

Vod
2006
This is the story of a life-long obsession, the life in question being James Ellroy’s. From a news item, the murder of the Black Dahlia, to the slaying of his mother, this is the initiatory …
3,99$ to rent / 9,99$ to buy

About us

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Clara and Julia Kuperberg

Two sisters, two distinct sensibilities, and more than twenty years of creating together.

Clara and Julia Kuperberg are filmmakers, producers, and cofounders of Wichita Films. Driven by a shared passion for cinema and American culture, they work between Paris and Los Angeles, close to the stories, people, and places that inspire their documentaries.

Before joining forces, they followed different paths. Julia began her career on the editorial team of ARTE’s Tracks before joining Fremantle. Clara had already codirected around ten documentaries with several producers. Founding Wichita Films allowed them to combine their experience and develop their projects with complete independence.

Their collaboration is rooted in a strong sense of complementarity. From writing and directing to archival research, interviews, and editing, they shape every film together. After more than twenty years of collaboration, they have developed an instinctive working method built on dialogue, trust, and a shared vision.

Their films grow out of the same ambition: to use cinema to tell history, challenge representations, and give a voice to people who have long remained outside the frame. Their French perspective, combined with their immersion in American culture, allows them to approach Hollywood with familiarity, independence, and curiosity.

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