Michel Mitrani (1930 - 1996) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was the founder of the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels in 1987. His 1974 film Les Guichets du Louvre was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival. [1]
René Clément was a French film director and screenwriter. He is known for directing the films The Battle of the Rails (1946), Forbidden Games (1952), Gervaise (1956), Purple Noon (1960), and Is Paris Burning (1966). He received numerous accolades including five prizes at the Cannes Film Festival and the Honorary César in 1984.
Marcel Albert Carné was a French film director. A key figure in the poetic realism movement, Carné's best known films include Port of Shadows (1938), Le Jour Se Lève (1939), The Devil's Envoys (1942) and Children of Paradise (1945); the latter has been cited as one of the great films of all time.
Lucía Sánchez (1969) is a Spanish-born French actress. She started her acting career in 1996 with Une robe d'été(A Summer Dress) directed by François Ozon.
Marco Ferreri was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor, who began his career in the 1950s directing three films in Spain, followed by 24 Italian films before his death in 1997. He is considered one of the greatest European cinematic provocateurs of his time and had a constant presence in prestigious festival circuit - including eight films in competition in Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Bear win in 1991 Berlin Film Festival. Three of his films are among 100 films selected for preservation for significant contribution to Italian cinema.
Albert Cossery was an Egyptian-born French writer. Although Cossery lived most of his life in Paris and only wrote in the French language, all of his novels were either set in his country of birth, Egypt, or in an imaginary Middle Eastern country. He was nicknamed "The Voltaire of the Nile". His writings pay tribute to the humble and to the misfits of his childhood in Cairo, as well as praise a form of laziness and simplicity very distant from our contemporary society.
The International Festival of Audiovisual Programmes or International Documentary Festival FIPADOC, founded in 1987 by Michel Mitrani (1930-1996), was first held in Cannes in October 1987., In 2019, the FIPA became FIPADOC,,, an international festival specializing in non-fiction films for all screens and all formats.
Pierre Granier-Deferre was a French film director and screenwriter
Noël Mitrani is a Canadian-born French film director, producer and screenwriter.
Juliet Berto, born Annie Jamet, was a French actress, director and screenwriter.
Jean-Claude Vannier is a French musician, composer and arranger. Vannier has composed music, written lyrics, and produced albums for many singers.
Christine Pascal was a French actress, writer and director.
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.
Henri Garcin was a Belgian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1956 to 2022.
Black Thursday is a French film from 1974 directed by Michel Mitrani. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1960 novel by Roger Bousinnot, the film portrays the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942, when French police arrested over 13,000 Jewish inhabitants of Paris and held them under inhumane conditions for deportation to Auschwitz, where virtually all were murdered. It was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival.
Jacques Baratier was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 21 films. His film Goha won the Jury Prize at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival. His 1962 film La poupée was entered for the 12th Berlin International Film Festival.
Alice Sapritch was a French film actress. She appeared in 66 films between 1950 and 1989.
Jacques Rispal was a French film actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1952 and 1986.
Jean Tournier was a French cinematographer.
Xavier Depraz, néXavier Marcel Delaruelle was a French opera singer and actor.
Manouchka Kelly Labouba, is a Gabonese filmmaker and screenwriter primarily direct short films. She has made several critically acclaimed short films including Marty et la tendre dame, Le guichet automatique and Le divorce. Apart from direction, she is also an academic, cinematographer, editor and camera operator.