After obtaining a DMA at the ESAAT, Célia Tisserant worked with Nicolas Liguori on his film The Wind in the Reeds. In 2018, she co-directed with Celia Tocco her first short film, The Golden Tortoise, and then The Little Red Chick in 2019 and Old Mother Snow with Arnaud Demuynck in 2020. All these films were released in short film programmes in the French cinemas.