At a bend in the Rue de Charonne, I come across the letter car­ri­er start­ing his second daily round on foot. He wants me to accom­pa­ny him. It’s very, very hot, he’s got sneak­ers and a cart, I’ve got clogs and a microphone.

Tess­lye Lopez, after a mas­ter’s degree and a pro­fes­sion­al career in infor­ma­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tion, she start­ed work­ing as an audio­vi­su­al direc­tor, making com­mis­sioned reports for the farm­ing world and short “carte blanche” films for the cul­tur­al world.

Work­shop: Sound in doc­u­men­tary film, Paris