Born in France, I grow up abroad, in Italy and Canada. After a mountain accident immobillizes me for several months as a teenager, I write my first screenplay for a short film.
I win a screenplay competition and shoot my first short film in 16 mm, at the age of sixteen. This first experience convinces me to devote myself to my passion: I decide to become a filmmaker.
I start working on shooting sets as a trainee. Passionate about my work, I am quickly promoted to assistant director, then second unit director. During ten years, I build my experience working on feature and advertising films alongside the greatest French directors of the decade: Matthieu Kassovitz, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Patrice Leconte, Michel Gondry, Jean-Paul Goude …
In between major feature productions, I shoot three new short films, putting my professional experience to good use: THE ENEMY, MIDNIGHT, and N ° 3. Each are selected in multiple international festivals and receive numerous awards .
These accomplishments get me noticed as a promising new director, and I am hired to direct my first television series. My debut is Gaumont’s MANATEA, a “youth adventure” series entirely shot in French Polynesia, in Moorea and Tahiti.
That’s how I get to write and direct my first feature film: REQUIEM, a thriller starring Patrick Dell’Isola and Moussa Maaskri. Released over a hundred screens in France then in 35 countries across the world, it is selected by the Sitges International Film Festival, the Brussels Fantastica Film Festival and the Mauvais Genre Film Festival in La Réunion in various categories.
Ten years of TV movies and scripted TV series episodes will follow, as I become one of the most prolific directors of French scripted television, notably on France’s leading network TF1, with SAINT-TROPEZ, COMMISSIONER MOULIN, SAUVEUR GIORDANO, WOMEN OF LAW, R.I.S. SCIENTIFIC POLICE …
Each prime-time TV show I direct for TF1 rates among the network's all-time highest ratings: COMMISSIONER MOULIN (8.7 million viewers), SAUVEUR GIORDANO (9,19 million, best rating of the series since its creation), R.I.S. (10.07 million in 2006), WOMEN OF LAW (7.85 million).
In between shooting TV shows, I develop my second feature film with French powerhouse producer Luc Besson’s EUROPACORP studio (producer of LUCY, TRANSPORTER, TAKEN, VALERIAN…)
COURSIER (International title : PARIS EXPRESS) is a fast-paced action/comedy on wheels starring Michaël Youn and Géraldine Nakache. Released in 2010 in 300 cinemas in France, the film is then distributed internationally in over 30 countries. It reaches N°8 at the national box office the week of its release over three hundred screens in France, lands N°6 at the national box office in China, and is selected at the Singapore Film Festival to represent France.
Écran Total’s “Special Cannes 2012 issue” ranks COURSIER as one of the TOP 20 international French box office champions distributed between 2011 and 2012.
My films have been released across the globe in over 50 countries and selected in multiple international Film Festivals. COURSIER is one of the only two European productions to enter China’s National Box Office Top 10 and one of the 20 most internationally profitable French theatrical feature films of the time.
I enter the international scene in 2011 for FRANCE TÉLÉVISIONS with the TV movie JACK OF DIAMONDS (ROUGE DIAMANT in France), a French-German-Canadian co-production uniting MUSE ENTERTAINMENT (USA/Canada) with FRANCE 2, GAUMONT, the ZDF and the Canadian network SHOWCASE. Entirely shot in english, in Canada, this pilot brings together an international cast led by John Bregar (US) and Jean-Yves Berteloot (France). Popular in Germany and Canada, where it airs to high ratings, this show is selected at the 26th Canadian Gemini Awards for “best writing in a dramatic television series”.
This success lands me a U.S. representation at PARADIGM in Los Angeles, where I work from 2012 to 2014, writing for television and cinema. Perfectly bilingual since my teenage years in Canada, I write directly in English, an essential skill to work in Hollywood… During these three years, I collaborate to the development of international projects with STUDIO CANAL, FUNDAMENTAL FILMS, VOLTAGE PICTURES, RADAR FILMS, SND and LION ROCK, the production company of legendary director John Woo.
Returning to France in 2015, I resumed directing series and TV movies for television.
In 2016, my episode of the hit French cop show SECTION DE RECHERCHES aired on France’s leading network TF1 to the series highest ratings in five years, with over 7 million viewers.
In 2018, 4,6 million viewers watched the episode’s during its first airing, a success that confirmed the show’s popularity with the French audience. In the wake of this rating, France 3 confirmed the order for a new season of the series.
In 2019, my episode “At the End of the Line” of the series LÉO MATTÉÏ was selected as the opening film of the LUCHON TELEVISION CREATIONS FESTIVAL. The three episodes of this sixth season that I directed were the top-rated prime-time series when they aired on TF1 (10.2 million viewers over two evenings).
Following this success, I became the lead director of LÉO MATTÉÏ for TF1 from 2020 to 2023, directing all of seasons 7 and 8 and the season 10 finale: 15 episodes in total, all prime-time ratings leaders. In parallel, since 2022 I have been part of the team for the series UN SI GRAND SOLEIL on France 2, for which I have contributed to the direction of 30 episodes.
For me, the ideal mise-en-scène is one that combines entertainment and emotion, brilliant form and solid substance, without artifice.
I find in all the filmmakers and directors who inspire me this powerful alliance of imagination and realism, within the subtle art of storytelling that is directing.
I favor an approach to directing where emotion stems as much from the work on editing, music, image, and sound as from the directing of actors, which is equally essential. It is this alliance that I always seek to explore in order to continue to surprise, move, and amaze the audience.