Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli is a French actor and filmmaker of Ticino descent. He has one of the longest careers in French cinema, and is regarded worldwide as a symbol of France's film history, more specifically of the 1960s and 70s.
Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer.
Philippe de Broca was a French movie director.
Claude Sautet was a French author and film director.
Jean-Pierre Melville was a French filmmaker.
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, also spelled Bruni-Tedeschi, is an Italian-French actress, screenwriter and film director. Her 2013 film, A Castle in Italy, was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Pierre Georges Henry was a French composer, considered a pioneer in the musique concrète genre of electronic music.
Saïd "Samy" Naceri is a French actor known for his work in the four Taxi films and The Code.
Daniel Rozoum (20 May 1959 - 28 February 2013), known as Daniel Darc, was a French singer, who achieved success with his band Taxi Girl between 1978 and 1986, and also as a solo artist.
Cécile de France is a Belgian actress. After achieving success in French cinema hits such as L'Art (délicat) de la séduction (2001) and Irène (2002), she gained international attention for her lead roles in High Tension (2003) and Hereafter (2010).
Edgardo Cozarinsky is a writer and filmmaker. He is best known for his Spanish-language novel Vudú urbano.
Isild Le Besco is a French actress and filmmaker. She is of mixed Breton, Vietnamese, French, and Algerian descent.
Danielle Arbid, born in Lebanon in 1970, has been directing films since 1997.
H5 is a French graphics and animation studio started in 1996. With Ludovic Houplain's art direction, its work can mostly be found in the fields of music video and luxury advertising.
Michel Brault, OQ was a Canadian cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was a leading figure of Direct Cinema, characteristic of the French branch of the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s. Brault was a pioneer of the hand-held camera aesthetic.
The 37th Cannes Film Festival was held from 11 to 23 May 1984. The Palme d'Or went to the Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders.
Guy Gilles born Guy Chiche was a French film director.
Valérie Donzelli is a French actress, filmmaker and screenwriter. She has directed five feature films and two short films since 2008, including the film Declaration of War (2011).
Nelly Kaplan is an Argentine-born French writer who focuses on the arts, film and filmmakers. She studied economics at the University of Buenos Aires. Passionate about cinema, she abruptly put her studies on hold to go to Paris to represent the new Argentine film archive at an international convention and later became a correspondent for different Argentine newspapers. She met Abel Gance in 1954, who gave her the opportunity to work on the film La tour de Nesle.
Maurice Failevic was a French film director. A communist, he directed more than 50 films about class struggles, depicting the lives of members of the French working class, from peasants during the French Revolution to the unemployed, factory workers and banlieue dwellers in the 20th century. He directed films for cinema and television as well as documentaries.
