2007

When Juliette Sol saw Terminator II at the age of 13, she knew instantly that the cinema was her path to excellence...

2006

As a child, Frédéric Jouve devoured the classics. His father, a professor of medicine and a cinemaphile, often took care of him and preferred that his son spend time with John Ford rather than Walt Disney. Even so, the young Jouve initially took...

2005

As far back as he can remember, Boris Briche has always had a special relationship with images. He grew up with a photographer stepfather and haunted photography studios until he was 16. Circumstances later prevented him...

2004

Christie Molia’s first interest in film was triggered by a Polaroid. At the age of three, she was so fascinated by the camera that she suddenly dropped her newborn baby brother...

2003

Gaëlle is a go-getter, a woman who gets things done and who has a profound sense of commitment. She’ll always hang in there with a project and push it as far as it will go...

2001

Isabelle Madelaine's fate was sealed when a cinema opened in her hometown of Vitry when she was 10 years old. it was decided: she would work in film...

2000

Antoine Rein remembers little of his childhood apart from the films he saw. At the age of 14, Antoine was obsessed with film: he would come out of school and pounce on his video cassettes...

1999

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Lauranne Bourrachot is a graduate of the Paris Political Studies Institute (1988-1991). During an internship at the CSA, she discovered audiovisual production, and then assumed a series of positions in film and television production...

1999

After completing his degree course at FEMIS in the Production section, Jerome Dopffer created Balthazar Productions, and enabled Delphine Gleize to direct her first short film, Sale Battars...

1998

“As a producer, you help the people you admire to realize their dreams.” The profession has fascinated film-buff François Kraus ever since he was 20. After a degree in film and audiovisual studies from the University of Paris VIII...

1997

A secret agent working undercover as a paediatrician is not the hero of the next film to be produced by Thierry Wong, but it is certainly the job he once dreamed of having when he grew up...

1997

“Kumari” – a magical word that makes Marie-Sophie Boulanger’s green eyes light up with interest. In Nepal, the Kumari are the little girls selected at the age of three to incarnate Taleju...

1996

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When he won a Special Prize from the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation, Olivier Delbosc was no newcomer to producing.

1996

"I don't like things that are immobile. They have to move." This declaration is a good summary of Laetitia Gonzalez's temperament and her early career in the world of cinema...

1995

Engineering at the ENSAE : that's what Nicolas Leclercq calls a "good student's degree course." A good student, certainly, but he was also one who tried his hand at producing records and short films between courses...

1994

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Bertrand Gore discovered his vocation while researching his dissertation on the financing of cinema productions at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales du Nord...

1994

After studying law, Laurent Lavolé decided to launch a career in cinema. In 1991, just a few months after obtaining his diploma at FEMIS, he created Gloria Films Production with Isabelle Pragier, a student from the same graduating year...

1993

One day while watching TV in his village near Tangiers, Mohamed Ulad-Mohand came across Derzou Ouzala and l’Argent de Poche. “Those two films bowled me over,” says Mohamed, who immediately understood his vocation in life...

1992 (en)

In July 1991, when she was just twenty five years old, Carole Scotta founded her own production company, Haut et Court. Enterprising and determined, Carole has been dreaming up projects since the very start...

1992 (en)

“My passion for the cinema goes back to the day when I saw 2001, a space odyssey for the first time. I was six years old when my father – an actor and cinema enthusiast – took me to see the film”, explains Dante Desarthe.

1991 (en)

Eric Atlan’s project is a little crazy. The aim? To produce a feature length film. The title? La treizième oreille. The style? The film is like nothing you have ever seen before...

1990 (en)

As a teenager the silver screen fascinated Philippe Martin; less perhaps for its stars and its glamour and more for everything that isn’t on show: the production of a film, its cost…

1990 (en)

From the age of 12, Antoine Desrosières spent his afternoons at the film library, watching between and 5 and 10 films a week, on average. One day, however, he was struck by fear; the fear of being merely a “film-buff” and spending his entire life as just a viewer...