I was born in Paris, in 1975. I moved to Washington, D.C. with my family on my 12th birthday, and studied at thé French International School of Bethesda forfive years.

Tired of an éducation System where thé only thing that seems to count is math, I decided it was time for something différent. Music was thé first thing that came to my mind. I was introduced to music when I was eight. I played thé piano for nine years, and composed dozens of songs and film scores. I also created several bands from "V-Sound" to thé current "On".

It isn't before thé âge of sixteen that I started to go to thé movies more than twice a year. Watching films by Besson, Beineix, Visconti, Stone, or Blier, made me feel that film might be what I was looking for. I had always been fascinated by thé power of music to communicate émotions, but I grew even more attracted to thé idea of combining music and images to tell a story and convey a message.

I found out that some schools actually taught filmmaking. I knew it would be a very unstable occupation, but I was ready to starve for something that I chose to do. l've never regretted that décision. With thé support of my very understanding parents, I entered New York University's film school in 1992.

During my second year at NYU, I made five short films: Rendez-vous (about a young man who meets an angel in a deserted street, 2 min, 16mm, B&W), 5+1=2 (about a young woman desperately looking for attention in a NYC subway, 3 min, 16mm, B&W), 23rd and on (about thé disastrous conséquences of a mysterious phone call, 3 min, 16mm, B&W), The Last Day (about a young man who gets away from NYC for one night to watch thé sunset, 4 min, 16mm, color), and Cris/s (about a young man trying to escape thé war in Bosnia, 5 min, 16mm, B&W).

During my first two years at NYU, I became very interested in cinematography. I was thé director of photography of several short films such as Jon San Jose's Arianne and Michael's Bush's Harsh Urban Realities. When I started thé production of B/ood Red Sky, my first "big" Project, I realized I had to give up cinematography to concentrate on directing and writing, which remain my priorities.

B/ood Red Sky, a 10-minute action/drama about a young man who décides to become a skinhead, was thé first film I made during my third year at NYU. I had written thé story over thé summer and was ready to produce it in thé fall. A first eut was ready by Christmas '94. Although some of thé action scènes were pretty exciting, I felt that more editing was needed to strengthen thé storyline. Since I wanted to make Duo before graduating, I decided to put B/ood Red Sky on thé side for a while and concentrate on Duo which I knew had much more potential. Duo won thé "Warner Bros. Production Award" in February, 1996, and thé "Martin Scorsese Post-Production Award" in March. I am now sending it to several international festivals and supervising its distribution, while preparing its feature length version. I was also thé Assitant Producer of Tempête dans un verre d'eau, a Paris-New York Production directed by Arnold Barkus and featuring French TV star Jackie Berroyer.