Florence Jaugey is a French movie director, actress, producer, and screenwriter residing in Nicaragua. She was working as an actress in the 1980s when she traveled to Nicaragua to be the lead in the movie El Señor Presidente, directed by the Cuban director Manuel Octavio Gómez.

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In 1989, together with her partner, Nicaraguan filmmaker Frank Pineda, she started an independent film company, directing and producing several short and documentary films. Since then, Jaugey’s filmmaking has focused on the poverty-stricken people of Nicaragua. Her short film Cinema Alcázar (1998), about the people who live in the ruins of an earthquake-destroyed movie house located in the center of Managua, won a Silver Bear at the Berlinale. Filmed in jail, The Island of the Lost Children (2001) won the Society of Authors Award at the International Documentary Festival Cinéma du Réel. The documentary Deceit (2012) portrays the lives of seven women who survived human trafficking.

Jaugey had her narrative feature film debut with La Yuma (2010). The film won 16 international awards and was selected as the Nicaraguan entry to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. La Yuma was the first full-length feature film shot in 20 years in Nicaragua. In 2014, she directed a second feature film, The Naked Screen.