Michiel Blanchart

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Michiel Blanchart
Born1993 (age 31–32)
Leuven, Belgium
Occupations
  • Director
  • writer
Years active2014–present

Michiel Blanchart (born 1993) is a Belgian film director and screenwriter.

Blanchart was born to a Walloon father and a Flemish mother. He completed his secondary education in France, where he obtained a literary baccalaureate. He later studied filmmaking at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD) in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. [1]

He made his feature-length directorial debut in 2024 with Night Call , a film set during a single night against the backdrop of a Black Lives Matter protest in Belgium. Blanchart co-wrote the film with Gilles Marchand. The film was well received by critics and won the André Cavens Award for Best Film from the Belgian Film Critics Association. [2] It received eleven nominations at the 14th Magritte Awards, winning ten, including Best Film, Best First Feature Film, and Best Director for Blanchart, holding the record for the most Magritte Awards won by a single film. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "Michiel Blanchart pour son premier long-métrage 'La Nuit se traîne'" (in French). Radio France. 28 August 2024. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  2. ↑ "Le Prix Cavens attribué ex aequo à 'La nuit se traîne' et 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat'". La Dernière Heure (in French). 19 December 2024. Retrieved 19 December 2024.
  3. ↑ "'La nuit se traîne' triomphe aux Magritte avec 10 récompenses, un record". L'Echo (in French). 23 February 2025. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
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