2007

A graduate of La fémis, Guillaume Brac made two shorts while studying there, Le Funambule presented at Premiers Plans in 2006, and Une aventure de Valentine broadcast on Arte in 2007. He then worked as an assistant for directors including Arnaud des Pallières and Emmanuel Mouret, and developed his own feature, Juillet, which was supported by the Ateliers d’Angers in 2007. Brac and another director friend set up the production studios, Année Zéro. In 2009, they produced Le Naufragé together, with very little money, but a great deal of enthusiasm.

Teddy Lussi-Modeste is from the traveller community, and was born in Grenoble in 1978. After studying literature, he went to La fémis. In 2004 he made Embrasser les tigres, Dans l'oeil in 2006, Je viens in 2008, which was selected for Premiers Plans. In 2010 he moved into making features with Jimmy Rivière, a film which he wrote with Rebecca Zlotowski. The film’s script was selected for the Festival’s Ateliers in 2007, and was read as part of the feature film screenplay readings in 2009.