31 August 2017
David Scherer has been working in special-effects make-up since the mid-2000s. He runs a large number of projects with young directors passionate about the fantasy world, and works on many TV series and music clips. He was for example responsible for the make-up effects and FX prostheses for Olivier Beguin’s Chimères and Francois Gaillard’s Last Caress.
5 September 2018
After studying biology and cinema, Christine became a life and earth sciences teacher. She was involved in setting up the cinema section at the Marc Bloch High School (lycée), where she now teaches cinema. As a teacher and film buff, she passes on her passion for the cinema to her students.
5 September 2018
The internationally renowned Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has 16 films to his directorial credit, of which Gangs of Wasseypur, Ugly and Psycho Raman were official Cannes selections. Awarded the French Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2013, Kashyap is a leading critic of India's film censorship laws. His new film, Husband Material, will premier at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.
5 September 2018
Dutch director Martin Koolhoven is a graduate of the Amsterdam Film Academy. His film Winter in Wartime outgrossed Twilight at the Dutch box office and was shortlisted for the Oscars' Best Foreign Language Film. Despite “Hollywood calling”, Koolhoven formed N279 Entertainment in Amsterdam with producer Els Vandevorst.
24 November 2021
Réalisateur néerlandais, Martin Koolhoven est diplômé de la Amsterdam Film Academy. Son Winter in Wartime a dépassé Twilight au box-office néerlandais et a été sélectionné aux Oscars dans la catégorie Meilleur film en langue étrangère. Malgré les sirènes d’Hollywood, Koolhoven a créé N279 Entertainment à Amsterdam avec le producteur Els Vandevorst.
8 September 2022
Mali Arun’s work with images fi ts somewhere between fi ction, documentary and video art.
8 September 2022
Rock Brenner is a lover of shoestring-budget films and has himself directed several of them, full of black humour, which were selected at Fantasia and the Valencia International Film Festival.
8 September 2022
A film critic for the Le Monde newspaper, he co-authored with Laurent Vachaud the only existing book of interviews with Brian de Palma.
8 September 2022
A contributor to numerous newspapers and magazines and the author of some forty books, he has also made several experimental shorts, two X-rated films and two documentaries.
9 September 2022
Since her debut on the news channel La Chaîne Info (LCI) in the early 2000s, Sophie Soulignac has shared her passion for the cinema. Editor-in-chief and presenter of several programmes for LCI, TPS Star and subsequently OCS, she covers fi lm shoots, previews and festivals and endeavours to meet those who provide the magic of the 7th art.
8 September 2022
Lorenzo Bertuzzi co-founded the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival, which revived the legacy of the Trieste International Science Fiction Film Festival, one of Europe’s fi rst genre fi lm festivals.
8 September 2022
Philippe Chevassu became smitten by cinema at a very early age. At the end of the 1990s, he joined the fi lm classics distributor Connaissance du Cinéma.
8 September 2022
Anaïs Bertrand founded Insolence Productions in 2012 after working as a script reader and digital visual-effects producer.
8 September 2022
From 2007 onwards, Alexandre Bustillo formed together with Julien Maury the iconic directorial duo of French horror cinema with the film Inside.