Etienne Sauret is the director of several documentaries. “The Lazy Man’s Zen,” one of the highest rated programs on the Discovery channel in 1994, is an intensive look at the spirit of motorcycling. His other documentary efforts explore a wide range of subjects, from a 30-year-old adopted woman searching for her birth mother in “Bandaid” to extra-terrestrials in “Roswell Decalogue.” In 1995, Sauret made his feature film directorial debut with “Too Pure,” a dramatic love story drawing on the Orpheus/Eurydice myth.

Sauret is perhaps best known for his arresting documentation of the events of September 11 in the powerful documentary WTC: THE FIRST 24 HOURS. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and has been screening as part of a September 11th retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art and the New York Historical Society. It is scheduled to make its U.S. television debut on HBO in September 2002. Sauret is currently working on “Loss,” a film elegy for six firefighters who died on September 11.