Born in Paris in 1989, Coline Grando grew up in Marseille. At 18, she joined a literary preparatory class with cinema option in Avignon. In 2010, she returned to the Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD), a Belgian film school. She left it in 2015 with a Master Director and a final film Les Saisons, a short fiction film. La Place de l’Homme is his first documentary feature.