Bernard Baissat

Biography

Bernard Baissat, born March 5, 1943, in Nabeul, Tunisia, is a French journalist, television director, filmmaker, pacifist, and libertarian. After teaching Italian and French literature, Bernard Baissat left teaching in 1966 to become a journalist at ORTF (the regional television station in Dijon), working under Pascal Copeau. In 1967, he became an assistant television director in Paris, first in news and then in educational television. He notably produced programs on economics with the trade un...