Author and director for television, Nina Barbier graduated from Columbia University film school in 1984. She worked since 15 years with french and foreign channels (ARTE, France 2, France O, France 5, BBC 4) on society, history, discovery and religion topics. She is author of the docudrama “The Myth of the Mermaid” in the footsteps of François Truffaut’s feature film “La sirène du Mississipi” (France Overseas, Cine + Classic) , and director of ” Madame Tussaud, a life in wax ” (Arte, BBC 4, TSF, RTBF and television fiction “In spite of them” , 60 mn, inspired by her documentary broadcasted on France 3 in 2002. Since 2003, she’s the director of « Bouddhist wisdom », a weekly show on France Televisions She is currently developping a documentary project « the pipelines war » about the pipe lines in the USA.