Franco-Swiss producer and director Patricia Moraz, who accompanied the first films of Léos Carax, died last week in Paris, at age 79, announced Tuesday his family.

Franco-Swiss director and producer Patricia Moraz, who accompanied the first films of Léos Carax, died April 16 in Paris at the age of 79, announced Tuesday his family. She produced "Boy meets girl", the first film by Léos Carax and then co-produced "Mauvais sang" by the French director.

The Indians are still far away . Born in 1939 in Sallanches (Haute-Savoie), Patricia Moraz worked as a teacher, journalist and screenwriter before making her first feature film, Les Indiens sont encore loin , presented in 1977 at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes. The film, starring Isabelle Huppert and Christine Pascal, looks back at the last week of a teenager, before dying. Will follow in 1980 The lost way .

In addition to the production, Patricia Moraz collaborated with Alain Tanner, Claude Goretta, Michel Souter as a screenwriter and co-produced "The Money" by Robert Bresson. She also participated "in the foundation of Femis in 1986 and taught in the department of scenario and production," says his family. His funeral will be held Thursday at Pere Lachaise in Paris.