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. Cinema was always going to be her destiny. At the tender age of 18, she was already working as a volunteer to help a group of friends raise funds for a short film.

Her tenacity appealed to Marc-Olivier Sebbag, who offered her a job in arts administration, where she provided funds and put regions in touch with audiovisual and cinema projects. Constantly “at the heart of things,” this self-taught woman was, above all else, eager to gain experience.

She has worked in a number of different fields and positions, including associate producer, film distribution, programming and production (documentaries, shorts and feature-length films), but she never felt she was changing her profession: she sees her role of supporting people and projects, but never controlling them, as a common thread running through all her various undertakings. “Mediation is central to my work as a producer with Château Rouge Productions,” she explains. Her guiding principle is to produce films by ambitious artists who are seeking their own market and audience.

For her, it is one more fight against the conditioning and economic fatalism prevalent in today’s society. “I’m a natural pessimist,” she stresses, “but being a pessimist helps me get even more excited about projects because it is always possible for something to emerge out of nothing.” It is precisely this theme that appealed to her in the feature-length film proposed by director S. Louis, where a void and emptiness provide the characters with space to exist and to keep hope alive.

Achievements since winning the grant
In 2006, Château Rouge Productions, Gaëlle Jones’ production company, finished shooting Aurélia Georges’ first feature film, L'Homme qui Marche (starring César Sarachu, Judith Henry, Florence Loiret Caille, Mireille Perrier and John Arnold), in France’s Centre region and in Paris, and also finished shooting Antoine Barraud’s first feature film, Song, in Taipei, Tokyo and Paris.

In 2007, Hinterland, a film by Geoffrey Boulangé, produced by Chateau-Rouge production et Les Films du Dimanche, won the Tiger Award of the best short film at  Rotterdam's festival.

Dans la ville de Sylvia,a film by Jose Luis Guerin is in official competition in the 64th Venice International Film Festival (august 2007)