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Thierry Lenouvel

France

Biography

Thierry Lenouvel earned a BA in Modern Literature and Cinema. He is the co-founder and General Delegate of Cinemed (Mediterranean Film Festival), Montpellier (1980-1995), founder and organizer of the Script Development Fund, Amiens Film Festival (1996-2015)., co-founder of Cinema in Motion/San Sebastian (2005-2012) and Final Cut in Venice (since 2013). He is also a member of CICAE (Art house theaters association), Fonds Sud Cinéma, EFA (European Film Academy), SPI (Syndicate of Independent Film Producers) and several international film festivals jurys. He was associate of the distribution company Les Films du Sémaphore (1983-1989) which has released films by Pedro Almodovar, Youssef Chahine, Benoît Jacquot, Gaston Kaboré, Emir Kusturica, Philip Noyce, Roman Polanski, John Sayles, Shinji Somai, Billy Wilder and others. He worked as independent publicist/press agent (1990-2000) of 150 arthouse movies. Thierry created in 1993 CINE-SUD PROMOTION, a company designed to promote arthouse films. Creation of the production arm in 2001. Almost 50 films produced till today, internationally awarded.

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