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Chad Chenouga is a director and actor. In the cinema, he has acted with B. Blier, Y. Robert, Y. Robert, L. Jean-Baptiste, L. Jean-Baptiste, I. Nanty, M. Winterbottom... For 25 years, he has supervised acting and screenwriting workshops. He has directed several short films, documentaries (Cash; Blier, Leconte, Tavernier, 3 movie lives), episodes of series for television... His short film Blue Street, nominated for the Césars in 2000, won an award at the Directors' Fortnight.
Her feature-length film 17 Bleue Street received several festival awards. Sound 2^th feature-length film With all my strength (released in theaters in 2017, and an adaptation of his play La Niaque (which he directed at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre) received the Sopadin Prize for best screenwriter. Sound 3^th movie The Principal (with R. Zem, Y. Moreau, M. Hand). In 2023, he co-directed with Christine Paillard Why are you smiling? (with Jean-Pascal Zadi, Emmanuelle Devos and Raphaël). Quenard) released in 2024 and which received several festival awards.
He co-wrote Billy Melodie by Christine Paillard, which was shot this summer 2025, with Roschdy Zem, and will be released in theaters in 2026. Her documentary series Play and direct starring Agnès Jaoui, Yolande Moreau and Jean-Pascal Zadi will be broadcast on Canal + and OCS Ciné + at the end of 2025.

Born in the Netherlands in 1978, he grew up in Morocco and lives in France. First a theater director in Rotterdam, then assistant director in Paris and director in Casablanca. He speaks four languages. After graduating from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Art in Rabat in 2000, he settled and lived for six years in Rotterdam where he put on several theater shows. In 2006, his show helsinki was awarded at the Amsterdam International Festival.
He then moved to Paris to study cinema and graduated in 2009 from the author and director Xavier Durringer whom he assisted on several film and television projects: The Conquest, Red Winter, The Source, Blood Red... His career as a director began in 2009 with the television movie The Winner. With the same producer, he continued the comedy Super-Market in 2014 and the series Red coral in two seasons that were awarded the award for best series at the National Audiovisual Festival in 2016. The following year, he won the directing award at the same festival for the romantic comedy Hawa ya Hawa. He then directed the series Bab al Bahr in 2020 then Bghit Hyatek in 2022 rewarded with two awards at the Dakar Séries festival.

After a first career as an assistant director for News jocks, advertising and video clips, Christophe Larue decided to become director of photography. He trained first as an electrician and then as a chief electrician. He definitively became director of photography in the early 2000s and cut his teeth on all formats, from short films to documentaries to feature films, two of which were eligible for the Césars.
While continuing to shoot for foreign productions, he started teaching in 2015 to transmit his know-how and knowledge. This choice led him to participate in the establishment of an audiovisual BTS in Djibouti. Christophe Larue is also the co-manager of a company that offers expertise and support to production companies in the field of image, from shooting to theatrical release, with an associate who is an expert in post-shooting video signal processing.
His career has given him a thorough knowledge of how a set works and the mechanics to be implemented for a film to come to life. It is this experience that he likes to transmit, with a certain requirement for good technical and technological practices.

My first job is a photographer. I worked in a photo agency for 4 years for magazines such as Geo, Terres Sauvages, etc., which allowed me to travel the world at a very young age: I was 18 years old. At the end of my military service, I became a journalist and image reporter (JRI). I shoot a lot of reports for programs like Ushuaïa, I cover car races: the Paris-Dakar, the Paris-Moscow-Beijing, the Raid Gauloises...
On one of the Gallic Raids, I had a very serious helicopter accident and, by an incredible miracle, my teammates and I escaped unscathed. I then decided to change my life and move on to fiction. I started as an assistant director on big TV series, then I directed my first short films... and quickly a first feature film (Alive). Four others will follow (Nos 18 ans, RTT, RTT, Hollywood, Hollywood, Les Invincibles) as well as a very large number of television series (H, Kaboul Kitchen, Les Innocents, Les Innocents, J'ai Lied, Erica, etc.).
Since the start of my career, I've shot on just about every medium and in every format. But the main thing for me is always telling a story.

Frédéric Petitjean worked for ten years for American studios such as DREAMWORKS, as a screenwriter for feature films, and as a dialogue writer for series and cartoons. Returning to France in 2005, he now writes mainly for cinema. In particular, he is the author of Madame Irma with Didier Bourdon, by Our most beautiful vacations for Philippe Lellouche, by Lonely with Guillaume Canet and François Cluzet, nominated for the César Awards 2014. He also writes Murders in Rouen with Frédéric Diefenthal.
In 2015, he directed his first short film Three Times Nothing with François-Xavier Demaison, who won several awards and won the short film corner award at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. He later wrote 8 for HBO and directed his first feature film Cold Blood Legacy produced by Universal with Jean Reno. After its French release in 2019, the film was distributed worldwide and was even in the top 5 Netflix 2021.
Also a novel writer, he has just finished writing Laura Laune's first feature film, One minute. He is preparing his next feature film The king is almost dying with Pascal Elbé, Antoine de Caunes and Louise Monot, which he will direct at the end of 2026.

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun is the first Chadian director in history. After studying journalism, he worked for various daily newspapers for the French press. In 1991, he directed his first short film Tan Koul, but it's his second movie Maral Tanié made in 1994 which made him famous. In 2001, he directed Letter from New York City, a short film that same year won the award for best video at the 11th Milan African Film Festival. The second feature film, Abouna, in 2002, won the award for best image at FESPACO.
The filmmaker then shot a documentary, Kalala. In 2007, Mahamat Saleh Haroun directed Daratt who won the bronze stallion from Yennenga, as well as the Best Image Award at Fespaco. His fourth feature film, made in 2010,A man who screams, won the Jury Prize at Cannes and the Robert-Bresson Prize at the Venice Film Festival. The following year, he was a member of the feature film jury chaired by Robert De Niro at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. He was selected again at Cannes in 2013 for Grigris then in 2021 for Lingui, the sacred bonds. He has also published two novels with Gallimard.

Maïté Maillé is a French actress, screenwriter, director and editor, born in 1950. A discreet but prolific figure in cinema and theater, she began her career in the 1980s and has more than 38 years of experience in the audiovisual industry. She was noted for her role in To our loves (1983) by Maurice Pialat, where she plays a significant maternal figure, and in Beatrice (1987) by Bertrand Tavernier. As a writer and director, she signed The melody of things (2015), a poetic short film exploring human relationships, as well as plays like Universe Bar (directed by his brother Michel Maillé) and Don Juan is back from war from Horvat. Versatile, Maïté Maillé has also worked as a director editor and collaborated on various theatrical projects, including Les Bonnes by Goldoni and Ah Anabelle At the Treize Vents.

After a first career as a teacher, Nolwenn Letanoux decided to change career path to become a script writer in 2009. Since then, she has been working on various fiction formats for television and on feature films. She is also a director and her latest short film Marie is going to walk (or almost) is being broadcast on television in 2022. In addition to her cinematographic activity, she is the author of two novels and regularly publishes in poetry and contemporary literature journals.

Born in 1963, Olivier Jacquet missed the IDHEC competition (now part of FEMIS) by a quarter of a point at only 18 years old. Undiscouraged, however, he became an assistant director and trained by working on short films of students who had joined the school. He worked for several years on television as a lighting assistant and his first mission sent him to Beirut in 1982 at the time of the war with Israel.
In 1986, he was hired as an intern on the post-production of the film by Marco Ferreri “Y'a bon les blanc”. He worked alongside him for 6 months, being at the same time his assistant, his driver, his secretary and his interlocutor with the production. He then became second assistant director on a feature film called “Coupe Franche” and finished shooting as first assistant director. He never left this role again and his profession will lead him to work with directors such as Radu Mihaileanu, Marco Ferreri, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Diane Kurys, Danis Tanovic, Barbet Schroeder, Barbet Schroeder, Philippe Le Guay, Philippe Le Guay, Philippe Le Guay, Pierre Jolivet, Tarik Saleh, Thierry Klifa...

Philippe Van Leeuw is a Belgian director, screenwriter and cinematographer. His first feature film, The Day God Went on a Journey, in 2009, received numerous awards, including Best New Director at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. His second movie, Insyriated (In Syria) received the Audience Award at the 67th Berlinale as well as the Europa Cinema Label. The film toured all the major festivals in the world where it won numerous awards, and was distributed in a large number of countries. His latest feature film The Wall, performed by Vicky Krieps, was released in Belgium in 2023 and is currently in theaters in France.

Régine Larcher, producer and CEO of LaRéelle Agence since 2013, manages audiovisual projects promoting cultural diversity, such as a film about Soundiata Keita and works on African tales, while chairing the French Association of Film Producers (AFPF). It supports overseas talent through training, mentoring and partnerships. Since 2020, she has been involved in production management. At CINESTAF SAS (2019-2023), she advised on production strategy and organized events. From 2009 to 2019, at ELOA PROD SARL, she managed audiovisual projects, from administration to the hiring of intermittent workers and post-production. Between 2002 and 2009, as a freelancer, she excelled in artistic direction and communication (FOOT AFRICA, CINAMAZONIA). Trained in audiovisual production (CEFPF, DIXIT), graphics (Web School Factory), and design (École CONTE, ESAM), she combines technical expertise and creativity to enrich the French audiovisual landscape.

Coming from a Franco-British family, Yann Samuell first distinguished himself in the graphic arts: he signed, among other things, illustrations for the classic Bilbo the Hobbit, covers of novels, posters and created numerous storyboards for cinema as well as painting exhibitions. Her first feature-length film Children's games brings together Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard and Gilles Lellouch is a cult film. It was the most broadcast French movie abroad and Netflix even included it in the list of 19 movies to see before you die.
This success opened the doors to Hollywood, where he directed My Sassy Girl before returning to France forAge of reason with Sophie Marceau. He will then reconnect with the general public by adapting the War of the Buttons with Éric Elmosnino, Fred Testot, Mathilde Seigner and Alain Chabat, as well as a host of children. He continues to carry out numerous projects for cinema and television while working at prestigious film schools such as UCLA, CLCF or the Singapore University of Technology and Design... His past as an illustrator, combined with his experience in script doctoring, has led him to be regularly consulted on the artistic design of projects.