• Jacques Champreux

    Jacques Champreux

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    Jacques Champreux, actor, writer and director, adapted the scenario and dialogues for Judex, based on Louis Feuillade and Arthur Bernède’s 1916 original creation.
    He also scripted Shadowman, and played the leading role. Grandson of Louis Feuillade, and son of Maurice Champreux, Feuillade’s chief operator, his other acting credits include Rocambole (1964) and the TV [...]

  • Edith Scob

    Edith Scob

    EDITH SCOB
    Georges Franju said of Edith Scob that rather than an inspiration to his filmmaking, she was a kindred spirit, an embodiment of magic and fragility, and that her appearance was a projection of part of himself. Immortalised forever as Christiane in Eyes without a Face, Scob has been acting for over 40 years. Her other films [...]

  • Catherine Breillat

    Catherine Breillat

    CATHERINE BREILLAT
    Catherine Breillat started out in 1967 by studying acting in Paris. Today she is an internationally known filmmaker and novelist.
     
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    An iconoclast and breaker of sexual taboo, Sight and Sound recently named her one of the 50 most visionary filmmakers of all time. Amongst her best known films are Romance (1999), [...]

  • Tarik Saleh

    Tarik Saleh

    TARIK SALEH
    He has directed several award-winning documentaries including Gitmo – New Rules of War (2005) which won best documentary at the Seattle Film Festival and Special Grand Jury Mention at Miami Film Festival, and Sacrificio – Who batrayed Che Guevara ? (2001) winning First Prize at International Film Festivals in Cuba, Portugal, Brazil and raising [...]

  • Tom Shankland

    Tom Shankland

    TOM SHANKLAND
    Tom Shankland first studied cinema at the University of Bristol, followed by studies at the National Film School. After directing short films (You Know My Story, Shadow, Bubbles, Bait, Going Down) as well as episodes for a TV series (Marple: the Moving Finger), he turned out his first feature film, the horror thriller WAZ, [...]

  • Christopher Smith

    Christopher Smith

    CHRISTOPHER SMITH
    Chris Smith’s talent was noticed by Dan Films following a short film he wrote and directed called “The Day Grandad Went Blind”. Subsequent to them meeting, he wrote and directed his first feature for the company, a horror film set on the London Underground called “Creep”, starring Franka Potente and Sean Harris. The film [...]

  • Roger Corman

    Roger Corman

    President of the Jury
    Roger Corman was born in Detroit in 1926 and studied at Stanford University where he graduated in engineering. After a stint in the Navy, he took a job at 20th Century Fox where he eventually became a script analyst. Disenchanted with studio protocol, he left Fox to study modern English literature [...]

  • Julie Corman

    Julie Corman

    President of the short film jury 
    Julie Corman has produced over 25 films in her career, including Scorsese’s Boxcar Bertha (1971) and Jonathan Demme’s Crazy Mama (1975). She co-founded with Roger Corman both New World Pictures in 1983 and New Horizons Pictures, where today she is executive vice-president. She recently co-produced with Roger Corman Cyclops for [...]

  • Ruggero Deodato

    Ruggero Deodato

    Jury longs et courts métrages
    Ruggero Deodato started out in cinema as an assistant to Roberto Rossellini, and continued with 60 movies for many others, including Joseph Losey and Claude Autant-Lara. He was 2nd unit director for Antonio Margheriti, Sergio Corbucci, Riccardo Fredda, and began directing is own films in 1967, which include The Last Survivor [...]

  • Jean-Jacques Bernard

    Jean-Jacques Bernard

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    Jury
    Jean Jacques Bernard is a journalist (Première, radio France Inter) and is currently the editor of “Boulevard du classique” for the TV channel Ciné Cinéma Classique. He has also made a series of documentary portraits on cinema figures, such as Arthur Penn, Stanley Donen, Michael Haneke, Bertrand Blier and others [...]

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