AWARD-WINNING PROJECT: producing Sauf Maman, a feature film directed by Nicolas Klein. The story of an 11-year-old boy who finds his mother again after a long separation, but is unable to keep her attention, and has to learn to give up on their relationship.

His portrait

Antoine Rein remembers little of his childhood apart from the films he saw: he can tell you all about The Great Dictator, ET (the "crowd-pleasing" film that showed him the way) or I Married a Witch. At the age of 14, Antoine was obsessed with film: he would come out of school and pounce on his video cassettes.
At that time, he was watching on average of 500 films a year. "A bit of everything", because his tastes were eclectic. But the teenager studied hard too, because he knew exactly what he wanted to achieve: to become a producer! He opted to study at the ESSEC business school, if only so that the numbers would add up, whilst continuing to broaden his experiences and learning, taking courses in television and radio, becoming a reader for television channels and the CNC (the French National Centre for Cinematography) and writing reports on the film industry economy for Ecran Total. With his qualifications safely in his pocket, Antoine created his short-film production company, Karé Productions, and started producing lots of films. "I was quite anxious, and I found it reassuring," he says, adding, "On the pretext that I'd seen a lot of films, I thought I knew everything. I had quite a few knocks, but in the end I began to learn." 

Achievements since winning the grant
In 2000, Antoine created his production company, Delante Films, with Caroline Adrian and Pierrick Goter.
He produced Nicolas Klein's The Fetishist and Matthias Gokalp's Part-time, two of the most highly acclaimed short films in France and Europe. 2001 was devoted to the filming of Sexy Boys, directed by Stéphane Kazandjian (cinema admissions totalled almost 500,000 in France when the film was released) and to writing the screenplay for Sauf Maman, with the help of another winner of one of the Foundation's talent grants, Stéphane Galas, who was awarded the grant for TV screenwriter in 1998. In 2003, Antoine was awarded the Procirep Prize for Producer of a Short Film.
In 2004, he produced Bernard Jeanjean's J’me sens pas belle, which won several prizes at the La Ciotat Short Films Festival, including the jury's Grand Prize, young viewers' Grand Prize and Best Actor, as well as a special commendation at the Cinestival in Marseille.
In 2005, the film Les Murs porteurs, directed by Cyril Gelblat, starring Miou-Miou and Charles Berling, was in post-production. He also received the Lutin award for Best Producer of a Short Film.
In 2006, he produced Anne Fassio's Je déteste les enfants des autres starring Elodie Bouchez, and Bernard Jeanjean's J’veux pas que tu t’en ailles, starring Richard Berry and Judith Godreche.