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 from realizing his lifelong dream of attending film school, so Briche tried his hand at law and sales but soon realized that he sorely missed his “close ties to images”. Though he had no contacts in the film world, he was finally successful in landing a one-month internship with Christine Gozlan (of Alain Sarde Films), who kept him on for a full year, taking him along to all her meetings. “That’s where I was confronted with the reality of the business – access to documents, contacts with directors and so on,” he recalls.

He had found his niche in life and dreamed of becoming a producer: “I was never attracted by the idea of directing or writing, but I love to provoke the flow of energy and talent in others, and make it possible for artists to accomplish their most cherished goals.” Gozlan advised him to get some experience in the production department in order to familiarize himself with the terrain. That experience sustains him to this day, while his own production company takes shape. From one shoot to the next, including François Dupeyron’s The Officers’ Ward, Boris has met some fantastic people – director Alexis Charrier and biologist Frederic Chast, for example. He brought them together around a screenplay, which was the origin of Le Cirque, a contemporary comedy that enabled him to obtain this grant to set up his own company: “I love the screenplay so much that I would have produced it no matter what,” he confesses. “The grant gave me the perfect excuse to take the plunge” – particularly since another very ambitious project is waiting in the wings…

Achievements since winning the grant

Boris Briche’s film production project Le Cirque is currently in casting and in the process of seeking funding. Several other projects are also under development, including La Disgrâce, a feature-length film directed by Anne Sophie Birot (director of Les filles ne savent pas nager - 1999).

AGE: 30 I PASSIONS : literature, theatre, music, and above all films – all the arts, without specifying any particular genre, anything that transforms reality. I PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE: nothing happens by chance; there are only fortunate and unfortunate encounters. I GOALS: to produce this movie and get it distributed, and to create a production company based on an open policy of matching authors with talent. I CULT FILMS: Cidade de Deus, Quelques Jours avec Moi and all the films of Claude Sautet, Jacques Audiard’s Sur Mes Lèvres, Scorsese’s Goodfellas and Jarmusch’s Down by Law.