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DIRECTOR AND ACTRESS Valérie Lemercier, born March 9, 1964 in Dieppe (Seine-Maritime), is a French actress, director, screenwriter, humorist and singer. She has twice won the...
DIRECTOR CO-PRESIDENT OF THE JURY "VISAGES DE LA FRANCOPHONIE" After taking acting classes with Antoine Vitez, Catherine Corsini directed three short films in the...
ACTRESS Born in Lille, Anaïs Demoustier has been attending theater workshops since the age of eight. She was 15 when she was chosen to play the daughter of Isabelle Huppert (her...
ACTOR CO-PRESIDENT OF THE "VISAGES DE LA FRANCOPHONIE" JURY With his impressive track record, Rémy Girard has a rich and abundant career. On stage, he...
DIRECTOR Catherine Therrien is the writer and director of the web-documentary LE BRUIT DES MOTS, about the impact of slam and poetry in adolescence. For television, she wrote LOURD (VRAK), and...
ACTOR Damien Bonnard began his career at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he took acting classes and then began working with students in film schools. He played his first...
DIRECTOR Named Artist for Peace in 2012, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette has directed several award-winning feature-length documentaries, including LES PETITS PRINCES DES BIDONVILLES (2000),...
DIRECTOR MEMBER OF THE JURY "VISAGES DE LA FRANCOPHONIE" In 2007, Sébastien Pilote presented his first short film, DUST BOWL HA! HA! in competition at the Locarno...
ACTRESS AND DIRECTOR MEMBER OF THE "VISAGES DE LA FRANCOPHONIE" JURY Born in Quebec city, Monia Chokri began her acting career after she completed her studies at...
PRODUCER President and co-founder of Cinémaginaire, Denise Robert has left her mark on the Quebec and Canadian film scene by producing numerous works that have won national and...
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF FRENCHMANIA & DIRECTOR OF THE CRITIC'S WEEK MEMBER OF THE JURY VISAGES DE LA FRANCOPHONIE Having been at the helm of the Critics’ Week of the...
ACTRESS MEMBER OF THE VISAGES DE LA FRANCOPHONIE JURY Suzanne Clément began her career on television in LES TRANSISTORS in 1982. She starred in her first feature film...
ACTOR At only 25 years old, Louis Peres is already playing a historical character of French literature in David Hourrègue's new series: he plays Etienne Lantier, the hero of...
ACTRESS As a child, Rose-Marie began her artistic career on stage following six years of classical ballet training. In 2015, following a wild casting, Rose-Marie obtained her first film...
ACTRESS New to our Quebec cultural universe, Nour has quickly carved out a special place for herself through her natural talent and disarming charisma on screen. In her first...
DIRECTORS Emmanuel Marre and Julie Lecoustre live and work between Paris and Brussels. In 2017, Emmanuel Marre directed LE FILM DE L'ÉTÉ (THE SUMMER MOVIE - Jean Vigo...
PRODUCER Besnehard is a distinguished impresario, producer, actor and writer, and has discovered or represented a multitude of the foremost actors and actresses in the world of French cinema...
DIRECTOR Gessica Généus began her acting career at the age of 17 with the feature film BARIKAD by Richard Sénécal. She played in the TV movie dedicated to...
DIRECTOR Laura Wandel was born in 1984 in Belgium where she studied filmmaking at the IAD school. Her school film, MURS, was selected in many festivals around the world. After her first...
CEO, FILM FUND LUXEMBOURG MEMBER OF THE VISAGES DE LA FRANCOPHONIE JURY Guy Daleiden (*1963) graduated in History and German linguistics and literature at the...
CARTOONIST AND DIRECTOR Born in 1981 in Aubervilliers, Nine Antico is a comic book author, illustrator and director. After creating her own fanzine Rock this way, with an eloquent title,...
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF FRENCHMANIA, FILM JOURNALIST AT TÊTU, PRESIDENT-FOUNDER OF THE QUEER PALM Trained at the IUT of journalism in Tours, after internships in the cinema press, this...
DIRECTOR After studying journalism, Patrick Fabre joined the team at Première magazine in 1987. In 1992, he left the written press for the radio and became "Mr. Cinema"...
DIRECTORS AND ARTISTS Filmmakers and artists, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige create between photography, video, performance, installation, sculpture, and cinema, being documentary...
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE ACADEMY OF CANADIAN CINEMA AND TELEVISION - QUEBEC SECTION PRESIDENT OF THE DOCUMENTARY JURY Mara Gourd-Mercado is an Argentinean-Canadian...
AUTHOR Born in 1974 in Dijon, Mathieu Sapin entered the Arts Décos in Strasbourg, where he created Supermurgeman, who became his favorite character, for a small magazine of the...
ACTRESS Since her graduation from INSAS in 1984, the Belgian actress Jo Deseure has worked with many directors: Michel Dezoteux, Marc Liebens, Xavier Lukomski, Pascal Crochet, Patrick...
ACTRESS Passionate about theater and film from an early age, Éléonore began cultivating this passion with theater workshops and camera acting workshops with Danièle...
DIRECTOR Jean-Pierre Pozzi studied at the School of Fine Arts in Dijon before starting his career as an assistant director. He directed two short films, MAD NIGHT and DRESSING ROOM, in...
PRODUCER MEMBER OF THE DOCUMENTARY JURY Accompanying the first generation of creators who emerged on the Internet 10 years ago, Vanessa worked to structure and develop new...
CONSULTANT MEMBER OF THE DOCUMENTARY JURY Séraphine Angoula has been working in the film and media sector for over 10 years. Initially at Canal+, then at Studiocanal...
PRODUCER MEMBER OF THE DOCUMENTARY JURY Born in 1994 in Lausanne, Yan Decoppet studied filmmaking at the New York Film Academy before starting an Interactive media designer...
PRODUCER MEMBER OF THE DOCUMENTARY JURY Khir-Din GRID was born and raised in Aubervilliers in Seine Saint Denis. In 2008, he produced RUE DES CITÉS, a feature film...
MEMBER OF THE PARIS BAR MEMBER OF THE DOCUMENTARY JURY Clara Benyamin is a member of the Paris Bar and specializes in intellectual property law. Her practice focuses on...
ACTOR A 1998 graduate of the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal, Patrice Robitaille acted in film, television and theater, and wrote various projects. Patrice has...
DIRECTOR For several years, Nicolas Roy has been dividing his time between film editing (among others BORIS SANS BÉATRICE by Denis Côté, LES 4 SOLDATS by Robert Morin,...
FILM AND ART HISTORY PROFESSOR MEMBER OF THE SHORT FILMS JURY Trained in design, art history and film studies, Marie Claude Mirandette was curator of graphic arts at the Montreal...
FILM JOURNALIST AND PROFESSOR MEMBER OF THE SHORT FILMS JURY Julie holds a master's degree in film studies from Concordia University and teaches film at the college level....
FILM CRITIC AND PROGRAMMER MEMBER OF THE SHORT FILMS JURY President of the AQCC, Justine Smith is also a film critic who writes for various...
