Engineering at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace and postgraduate work in applied mathematics: 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. In 1994, he created Le Village de Nuit, a production company for television advertising – for Michelin, Ebly, and France Telecom, among others – and TV dramas: four episodes of L’œil du Cyclone for Canal+ and some short films for Arte. Winning the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation grant allowed Nicolas to found his production company for feature-length films, Entropie, and to produce Cinoche, comprising a set of vignettes that bring together several talented young writer/directors, each describing a personal vision of a cinema genre.

Achievements since winning the grant

In 1996, Nicolas Leclercq created Entropie Films, his production company for feature-length films. His own feature-length film, Cinoche, was transformed into several award-winning short films.
In 1997-1988, he created a weekly series for Nulle Part Ailleurs (Canal+) and produced Carnets de M. Manatane with Benoît Poelvoorde.
In 2000, Nicolas produced Les Portes de la Gloire.
In 2002, he worked on L’Orgue de Barbarie, a feature-length animated film written and directed by Nicolas de Crécy.
In 2005, he produced Atomik Circus, le Retour de James Bataille, the first feature-length film by the Poiraud brothers.