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. She spent some time at Azilah Productions (the production company of 1993 winner Mohamed Ulad-Mohand), working on two short films and a documentary co-produced by Canal+. She then worked on a series for France 3 in May 1996, Quasimodo, comprising 26 animated episodes of 26 minutes each (produced by Arès Films). Several months later, Lauranne Bourrachot created a subsidiary for Arès Film, Cartoon Express, which she directs. She then decided to create her own production company for animated films, Extérieur Jour. The Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation grant allowed her to finalize the pilot of Kidnapped and to convince decision-makers that “Made in France” and “Made in Europe” cartoons have a future and a market.

Achievements since winning the Grant

Lauranne Bourrachot set up an animated film subsidiary for Arès Films, Cartoon Express, of which she assumed direction. She then founded Extérieur Jour, her own animated film company, with which she produced 12 interactive cartoons for the Internet. In 2001, she produced 13 five-minute episodes of Belle à Mourir with Vanessa Demouy, a series distributed in 2002 on the 13eme Rue channel and on Wanadoo. In 2007, together with Marco Cherqui and the production company Chic Films, she is producing the third feature-length film by Antoine Desrosières (1990 Film Producer grant winner), Les Tiers Mondains (currently shooting), which stars Kristin Scott Thomas among others.