April 2019

DAVID THOMPSON

David Thompson is an English filmmaker and writer. He joined the BBC in 1983 in the Programming Department and began making documentaries for the Music and Arts Department in 1990. His work includes portraits of…

VASSILI SILOVIC

Vassili Silovic was born in 1964 in Yugoslavia. After the disappearance of this country, he became a Croatian with a Slovenian passport, whose mother tongue was Italian and who grew up in Germany. It was…

TESSA LOUISE-SALOMÉ

Tessa Louise-Salomé is a director, editor and producer. After studying filmmaking in Paris, she began her career as an assistant director (Xavier Beauvois, Martin Bourboulon), before becoming a director, editor and artistic director. Among her…

MICHELLE PORTE

Trained by the Image Research group of the ORTF's Research Department, Michelle Porte started her career in the film industry as an assistant on feature films. A close friend of Marguerite Duras, she made documentaries…

LAURENT PERRIN

Passionate about cinema, Laurent Perrin began his career as assistant director to Richard Fleischer, Raoul Ruiz, Benoît Jacquot... In the 80s, he directed several short films including "Scopitone", which he co-wrote with his friend Olivier…

BRUNO NUYTTEN

Bruno Nuytten is a French cinematographer and director. Winner of 3 Césars (in 1977, 1984, 1989) and a BAFTA award (1988), he teaches at the FEMIS school, where he was head of the "Image" department…

HUBERT NIOGRET

Born in Lyon in 1945, Hubert Niogret has been a photographer, assistant director, production manager, documentary film director, film producer and lecturer in film economics at Paris I and Paris III. As a film critic,…

GUILLAUME MOSCOVITZ

Guillaume Moscovitz was born on 3 May 1969. After studying philosophy, he went to Brussels to study theatre. He worked for several years as an actor and directed a short film in 1996. "Belzec", released…

GILLES MIMOUNI

Writer and director of fiction for cinema and television, Gilles Mimouni directed his first feature film "The Apartment" in 1996, starring Romane Bohringer, Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel. For Folamour, he directed in 2010 "Once…

AMINE MESTARI

Amine Mestari is a French writer, director and scriptwriter. Although he was studying ethnology in Strasbourg, he was already passionate about the cinema and audiovisual professions. It was during his years as assistant director on…

NAËL MARANDIN

Naël Marandin, an actor, director and scriptwriter, began acting when he was a teenager in "Les allumettes suédoises" (The Swedish matches) , "La ville dont le prince est un enfant" (The city whose prince is…

RÉMI LAINÉ

Rémi Lainé, a documentary filmmaker, made his debut on television in the 1990s alongside filmmaker Daniel Karlin, a specialist in documentary sagas on social issues  ("Love in France", "Justice in France", "The local side", "The…

FRANÇOIS LEVY-KUENTZ

François, who was born in Paris in 1960, is a writer and director of documentary films. After studying cinema at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3), he worked as an assistant director for Marcel Bluwal, Claude…

ANNE KUNVARI

A graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, Anne Kunvari is an author, journalist and documentary filmmaker. In 1993, she took part in the launch of the magazine "La Rue", specialised in exclusion and…

SERGE JULY

Born in 1942, Serge July is a journalist and film director. Vice-president of the UNEF in 1965, he joins in 1968 in Nanterre the Movement of March 22nd where he militates alongside Daniel Cohn-Bendit. In…

YVES JEULAND

Yves Jeuland is a French director and documentary filmmaker, born in 1968 in Carcassonne. Several of his films deal with political activism. Yves is particularly interested in telling the history of the French communists and…