Faculty

Having completed his literary and political science studies before moving on to cinema, Hugo Boris, a graduate of France’s prestigious national film school, the École Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière, worked as an assistant director for film and television and directed some ten award winning short films. For his first published story N’oublie pas de montrer ma tête au peuple (Mercure de France, 2003) he won the prestigious “Laureate of young writers award”. His first novel, Le Baiser dans la nuque (Belfond, 2005, Pocket edition, 2007) was awarded the coveted Emmanuel Roblès Prize, hosted by the Académie Goncourt. His latest novel, La Délégation norvégienne, winner of two literary awards, is due to appear in a pocket edition soon.

Director and Screenwriter.  After his BA in Law he has studied filmaking in Italy (Filmaker, Cinelife, Marco Bellocchio’s workshop) and France (EICAR). He has worked for Antenna 3 Tv and has founded the Babele Theatre Company. His short-films "Claire" and "Da lontano" have been awarded in worldwide International Film Festivals. His first feature film "Traction Avant" is currently in development.
He also works as a journalist and graphic novel screenwriter.

Alain Ross is a writer/director of Franco/British origins. He trained in theatre in which he worked for ten years before turning to film. In 1997 he wrote and directed "Bound", a short film, which won several prizes and was selected in 40 international film festivals. In 2000 he co-wrote and directed his first feature film, "L'attrape-rêves" (Dreamcatcher), which received good critical
acclaim. He then co-wrote Eric Veniard's first feature film, "Une affaire qui roule" (2003), a comedy. He recently co-wrote Laurent de Bartillat's first feature film "Ce que mes yeux ont vu" (2007) about Watteau, the artist. He is currently developing his second feature film.

Ashley Mendoza has a M.F.A. in directing and screenwriting from Columbia University, School of the Arts, Film Program. While at film school, she worked as a reader at the William Morris Agency.  Her thesis film, "Mad About Harry", was a finalist in The Hollywood Film Festival.  After graduation, she served as an associate producer and writer on Nick Jr.'s acclaimed preschool show, "Dora the Explorer".  Other writing credits for preschool shows include "Higglytown Heroes", "The Care Bears", and "Maryoku Yummy".  She just completed work as a staff writer on three seasons of Disney's "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse", now the highest rated preschool show.  Her script, "Sleeping Minnie", was nominated for Cartoons on the Bay, Pulcinella Awards, in the Educational and Social Program, 2007.  Another script, "Goofy the Great!" was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2008.  "Mickey's Adventures in Wonderland", her second direct-to-video movie for Disney, will be released later this year.

Raised in New York City, Bill Tannen graduated from Film School at Boston University and returned to New York where he started Sunday Productions to produce and direct television commercials.
He also directed his first film, a short, "Eulogy for R.F.K." which opened at the New-York Film Festival with "Battle of Algiers"
In 1972 Bill moved to Los Angeles and continued to direct award-winning commercials all over the world. (He has won 5 Clios).
In 1984 he directed his first feature, "Flashpoint" for Tri-Star and HBO. Since then he has directed ten other films, several television series', television specials and music videos (Bill won a Grammy for directing the Commodore's music video "Night Shift").
He has also worked with The Temptations. Besides working in Los Angeles and New York, Bill has directed films in Africa, Czech Republic, Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Mexico and South America. In 2004 Bill left Hollywood for Portland, Oregon.

Cécile has a long experience in the production of shorts, television films, music videos and commercials. HBO, BBC TV, Avalon Television, Franco American Films are among some of the companies for which she has produced.

Chris Mack acts, writes and directs plays and films, and coaches actors in Paris and New York.  He resides in Paris, where he also acts in and directs voiceovers.  Recent/current directing credits include Alan Arkin’s "Virtial Reality", film shorts for Theatre en Anglais "The Importance of Being Earnest", "Seventy Scenes of Halloween", and "Vampire Vermont".  He has also been a director and acting coach on and performed in a variety of industrial films and ads, and horror films.
A co-founder of Paris Playwrights and a former member of Blueprint Theatre, The Empty Space Theatre, and Annex Theatre in Seattle; he is a former advisory board member for ESTRENO, which promotes Spanish plays. Chris taught theatre, communications and voice classes within the City University of New York, where he also ran Bronx Community College's Theatre Workshop.  He also has taught scene study and acting on camera classes for the New York Film Academy at La Femis.  Currently, he teaches acting classes for stage and screen for Bilingual Acting Workshop, the Sudden Theatre, the American University of Paris, as well as periodic workshops for EuroDisney.
Chris is also a Paris-based voiceover artist, he does voiceovers for numerous documentaries and films, including such recent films as "Persepolis", and an upcoming series of animations based on Rudyard Kipling’s Just So stories.  He can also be heard as the English narrator on <a  class="grisfonce11" target=_blank href="http://www.pocketvox.com">www.pocketvox.com</a>, a series of audio guides of the cities of Europe.

Diplômé de la FÉMIS (10e promotion - Département Son), David AMSALEM est Ingénieur du Son, Monteur Son et Sound designer pour le cinéma.Parallèlement à son activité principale, il pratique la photographie et enseigne le cinéma à la FÉMIS, l'ISART DIGITAL et l'EICAR.
FILMOGRAPHIE : "Suerte" de Jacques Séchaud (2009), "Valérie n’est plus ici" de Pascal Cervo (2009), "Le Secret d’Yvette" de Christophe Durand (2008), "La troisième Paris du monde" de Eric Forestier (2008), "Les randonneurs à Saint-Tropez" de Philippe HAREL (2007), "Paris, je t’aime" (partie réalisée par Tom Tykwer, 2006), "Foon" réalisé par Les Quiches (2005).

Currently Delegate, Berlin Film Festival. Film & photography industry consultant. Film projects in development; Executive Producer Funeral Train and Mission London.
Prior to becoming Managing Director of Magnum Photos in London, Green worked in Paris having moved there in 1992 to establish ACE, a training programme for European film producers later becoming Head of Co-Production for TF1 and then StudioCanal+ ; developing, financing and executive producing over a dozen feature films and Associate Producer of Francesco Rosi’s The Truce with her own company Greenlight Productions. Green has been a consultant to the Media Business School and taught at the Film Business School and Mega programmes in Spain.
Previously, Green was Managing Director of Comic Relief responsible for the business and legal affairs of a major charity fund-raising event and live television broadcast and worked in the British film industry in both distribution and exhibition, notably as Head of Distribution with Virgin Vision, responsible for acquisitions and marketing of a wide range of British and international feature films.

Emmanuel Fuentebella, veteran sound and cameraman, began his career in the pioneer days of reality shows; he went on to become a WTC Johnson Fellow at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he collaborated with community access TV pioneer George Stoney on consumer video docs. Emmanuel is currently finishing a documentary about an open-air school in Antwerp, Belgium covering the war years, social and cultural changes in the neighborhood and the evolution of the classroom from blackboards to smartboards.

Trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Liège, Harry Cleven has worked with many prestigious European directors, such as Andrzej Zulawski, Alain Corneau, Jaco Van Dormael, Jean-Luc Godard and Martine Dugowson.
Harry began as a director with his first feature “Abracadabra” (1991), followed by "Why get married the day the world ends” (1999) and “Duplicity” (2004) as well as several television films.

Veteran French producer Jean-Marie Bénard went to the US as a teenager and ended up with a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Film Department at UCLA. Back in France, he co-wrote with Roger Andrieux a feature film, "l'Amour en Herbe", but started freelance producing commercials to make a living.  After having won several prizes at the Advertising Film Festival in Cannes, he decided to create his own production company, Summertime. He has produced commercials for 20 years, and is happy to pass on whatever knowledge he may have.

1st Assistant Director since 15 years, Jérôme Zajdermann worked on feature films, tv movies and advertisings.Jérôme Zajdermann is also producer since 9 years. His company Sotavento is producing short movies and tv movies.

Jonathan Broda was born in Toulouse in 1970.
He graduated from the ESAV (Ecole Supérieure d'Audiovisuel of Toulouse) in 1995 and completed a PhD in History of cinema at La Sorbonne in 2005 on "The auteur (author) theory in France".
He has been teaching History of cinema at La Sorbonne Nouvelle since 1997 and has combined this activity with film analysis since 1998.
Since 1993, he has directed and produced a dozen of short-films, feature-films and documentaries.

Karim holds a degree in editing and is a certified level 1 trainer by Apple. He has taught for several years at EICAR for the journalism, directing and BTS sections . His first feature documentary is currently in development. He is in charge of the High Definition Program at EICAR.  Work for 2 years at Duboi in the FX on "Amélie poulain".

An inter-disciplinary designer and educator, Ms. Begleiter specializes in teaching innovative visualization and writing techniques to filmmakers, designers and artists. Highlights of 18 years in higher education include being Founding Director of the Integrated Learning Program, an interdisciplinary design curriculum, at Otis College of Art and Design and serving as Supervisor of Visual Studies for the Undergraduate Film Department of Art Center College developing a sequence of pre-visualization classes and also is one of the founding faculty of the International FilmSchule in Cologne, Germany. She is author of "From Word to Image, Storyboarding and Filmmaking Process," a bestselling title on the subject, was published in 2001 (2nd edition was released in Jan., 2010) by Michael Wiese Publications and is available in German, Korean and French. Principal of Filmboards which produces pre-viz for film and television as well as film seminars and whose client list includes Paramount, Tristar, New Line, and ABC. Her play "Meditations: Eva Hesse" was produced at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica in 2010.

A graduate of the National French Film School,
Louis Lumière, Murielle has worked on more than 50 TV or feature films such as "Dien Bien Phu" by Pierre Schoendoerffer or "Les amants du Pont Neuf" by Léos Carax as well as many documentaries and short films ("Poulet cocotte" awarded 30 times). Her last two feature films, "Trance", and "The Man from London", have both been selected by the Cannes Film Festival
and have won many international awards.

Nathalie Ascher comes from both a film and a language background. She has worked as a script-coordinator and was responsible for the Research and Development Department in an animation production company. She then joined the post-production sector and worked as a post-production director in a mixing, editing and recording studio. Currently she translates scripts and documentaries for writers and production companies. She is also a script-reader for film production companies and teaches French and English at The International Film School of Paris.

Paul Jenkins is an award-winning documentary director, specializing in political, historical and investigative films worldwide. Graduating in 1987 with a degree in Russian, Jenkins worked for three years on the Channel 4 current affairs series The World This Week before moving into the documentary genre. For the next four years, Jenkins produced with director Ed Harriman several Channel 4 ‘Dispatches’ investigations, notably one about the detention camps for Muslims in Bosnia in 1992 (A Town called Kozarac). In 1999 Jenkins produced with renowned director Leslie Woodhead the landmark BBC Storyville film about the Srebrenica massacre A Cry from the Grave. The following year, Jenkins directed Soldat, a feature-length documentary film about the lives and woes of Russian army conscripts for Channel 4’s ‘True Stories’ strand. In 2003 Jenkins directed an internationally funded (BBC, Arte) series Slaves of the Sword which profiled three generals-cum-politicians: Moshe Dayan, Yitzak Rabin and Ariel Sharon, examining their impact on Israel’s destiny. Also in 2003 Jenkins made a BBC Storyville/Arte feature documentary The Russian Newspaper Murders that graphically portrayed the hazards of investigative journalism in Russia – a theme he continued to follow with Murdering the Truth broadcast on Channel 4 in 2007, which investigated the murder of reporter Anna Politkovskaya. Jenkins has covered British politics and international terrorism for the BBC – making a series on Prime Minister Tony Blair and a three-part series on Al Qaeda in 2006. Since 2007 Jenkins has been resident in Paris, directing for the French-German public network Arte: the films so far have covered 1917 The Russian Revolution, life in Eastern Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall (Que sont nos rêves devenus?) and an investigation into how the pharmaceutical industry are offloading clinical trials to the developing world (Body Hunters). His current film examines pre-war Japan through the story of warrior-monk General Ishiwara Kanji.

Sandrine comes to EICAR with an impressive experience as production manager, line producer, and location manager on feature films, documentaries and commercials, working with such directors as Sydney Pollack, Billy Crystal, Neil Jordan, Sally Potter, Walter Salles, and Martin Scorsese.

A veteran cinematographer, Sophie Cadet graduated from the French national film school, Louis Lumière.
Over the last decades, she’s worked as a cameraman and cinematographer for many distinguished directors, such as cult director Jan Kounen. The scope of her work covers TV series as well as action films, documentaries and music videos.<

Sylvain Rigollot was born in 1969. Graduate of the French National Film School Louis Lumière, he experimented several cinema crafts, to eventually focus on storyboarding. He worked on many commercials, with Claude Miller, Nicole Garcia, Christophe Barratier, Julien Séri. Heading for feature films, he storyboarded movies like LARGO WINCH, directed by Jérôme Salle, or EN FACE, by Mathias Ledoux. What he mostly likes is creating the artistic concept of a film, as he did for Sami Bouajilah's feature in development.

In 1999, he publishes TITANIC, A SCRIPT METHODOLOGY (Dixit Publishing), a deep analysis of the James Cameron movie.

He has also directed short films, like LE FLEAU MODERNE or CLANDESTINO. These movies have been selected in many festivals and won prizes.
 
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Vanessa Alexander is an Emmy-nominated producer/director/writer who has worked as a professional director and producer of drama in New Zealand for the last ten years. For the last three years she has been the Director of Screen Production for University of Auckland where she has been a producer on many short films, including the Oscar-nominated short film Two Cars, One Night. Vanessa is a past winner of NZ New Filmmaker of the Year, has twice been a finalist for Best Director and Best Screenplay, and won Best TV Series at the NZ Screen Awards.