The PIDS Enghien is an event dedicated to digital creation in all its forms: from visual effects to virtual reality, through animation and 3D, the PIDS crosses the creative, technical, economic and creative challenges of a sector in perpetual evolution.
The organizers created the Digital Creation GENIE Awards in 2015, which aim to honor the talents of French digital creation.
GENIE Awards 2025 – Winners
Best Visual Effects – Feature Film
Bryan Jones (VFX Supervisor) - Pierre Procoudine-Gorsky (VFX Producer) – Chervin Shafaghi (VFX Supervisor, NOID) – Guillaume Le Gouez (VFX Supervisor, CGEV)
The Substance directed by Coralie Fargeat WINNER
VFX Studios: NOID - CGEV
Olivier Cauwet (VFX Supervisor) – Camille Gibrat (VFX Producer) – Adrien Lambert (Lead VFX) – Lucas Salton (Lead VFX)
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo directed by Matthieu Delaporte et Alexandre de La Patellière
VFX Studio: BUF
Arnaud Fouquet (General VFX Supervisor, MPC Paris) - Loriane Lucas (VFX Producer, MPC Paris) - Marc-Thomas Cavé (VFX Supervisor, Digital District) - Benoît Armstrong (VFX Producer, Digital District)
Sous la Seine directed by Xavier Gens
VFX Studios: MPC Paris – Digital District
Cédric Fayolle (General VFX Supervisor, Les Artizans) – Mélodie Robert (VFX Producer, Les Artizans) – Rodolphe Zirah (VFX Supervisor, MPC Paris) – Yann Nivet (VFX Producer, MPC Paris)
Emilia Perez directed by Jacques Audiard
VFX Studio: MPC Paris
Alain Carsoux (VFX Director) – Séverine De Wever (Production Director) – Jean-François Michelas (VFX Supervisor)
Survivre directed by Frédéric Jardin
VFX Studio: CGEV
Best Visual Effects – Series
Laurens Ehrmann (Sr VFX Supervisors) – Audrey Lagnous (VFX Producer) – Aymeric Aute (VFX Supervisor) – Julien Martins (Compositing Supervisor)
The Lord of the Rings : The Rings of Power S2 (Series – Amazon Prime Video) Showrunners: J.D. Payne – Patrick McKay WINNER
VFX Studio: The Yard
Jao M'Changama (Sr VFX Supervisor) – Christophe Ferrier (Lead VFX Supervisor)
Justine Paynat-Sautivet (Sr VFX Producer) – Sébastien Voisin (VFX Producer)
The Walking Dead : Daryl Dixon S2 (Series – AMC) created by David Zabel
VFX Studios: BUF – Mathematic - MPC Paris – One of Us - Rodeo FX Paris – The Yard
Etienne Salançon (VFX Supervisor) – Annabelle Troukens (VFX Producer)
François Lee (VFX Producer) – Marc Jouveneau (Manager VFX, Excuse My French)
The Serpent Queen S2 (Series – Starz) created by Justun Haythe
VFX Studios: Digital District – La Planète Rouge - Light - MPC Paris – Noid - One of Us – Trimaran VFX
Pierre Buffin (VFX Supervisor) – Dominique Vidal (VFX Supervisor) – Camille Gibrat (VFX Producer)
Le Problème à trois corps (Series – Netflix) created by David Benioff, D.B. Weiss et Alexander Woo
VFX Studio: BUF
Arnaud Leviez (VFX Supervisor) – Alexis Vieil (VFX Producer) – Théophile Duicque (VFX Producer)
La Cage (Series – Netflix) created by Franck Gastambide
VFX Studio: Digital District
Best Visual Effects – Advertising
Antoine Moulineau (VFX Supervisor) – Laurent Solignac (CG Supervisor)
Marie Fichet (Asset Supervisor) – Hugo Astesano (FX Supervisor)
Batman: Arkham Shadow | Become The Knight directed by Johan Renck WINNER
VFX Studio: LIGHT
Franck Lambertz (VFX Supervisor) – Nicolas Huguet (VFX Producer)
Saudi Tourism Authority - Saudi Odyssey directed by Antoine Bardou-Jacquet
VFX Studio: Rodeo FX Paris
François Schmidt (VFX Producer) – Sylvain Sarradin (3D Supervisor)
Boursobank - La Banque qu'on a envie de se recommander directed by Romain Chassaing
VFX Studio: Digital District
Best Character/Creature
Chervin Shafaghi (VFX Supervisor) – Olivier Lourry (VFX Art Director)
Abdou Karimi (CG Supervisor) – Naïrye Apelian (VFX Producer)
The Substance directed by Coralie Fargeat (film) WINNER
VFX Studio: NOID
Florian Wolff (CG Supervisor) – Ryan Bardoul (CG Supervisor)
Augustin Paliard (Animation Supervisor) – Emilie Picard (Artist rigging)
Sous la Seine directed by Xavier Gens (film)
VFX Studio: MPC Paris
Arnaud Fouquet (VFX Supervisor) – Fanny Bilani (VFX Producer)
André Monteiro (CG Supervisor) – Maxime Chaix (Compositing Supervisor)
Chasse gardée directed by Antonin Fourlon et Frédéric Forestier (film)
VFX Studio: MPC Paris
Best Environment
Rodolphe Zirah (VFX Supervisor) – Christophe 'Tchook' Courgeau (Environment Supervisor) – Lise Fisher (2D Supervisor) – Bastien Halter (Environment Artist)
Emilia Perez directed by Jacques Audiard (film) WINNER
VFX Studio: MPC Paris
Stéphane Vogel (VFX Supervisor) – Matthieu Piat (VFX Producer)
Geoffrey Niquet (Lead VFX) – Laura Pellin (Production Coordinator)
This is me… now directed by Dave Meyers (film documentaire)
VFX Studio: BUF
Guillaume Dureux (VFX Supervisor) – Simon Beausoleil (VFX Producer)
Stéphane Vogel (Lead VFX) - Laura Pellin (Production Coordinator)
The Kitchen directed by Kibwe Tavares et Daniel Kaluuya (film)
VFX Studio: BUF
Sébastien Fauchère (VFX Supervisor) – Nicolas Nepveu (VFX Producer) - Christophe 'Tchook' Courgeau (Environment Supervisor) – Alexia & Jessica Ferry (Artists env.)
The Walking Dead : Daryl Dixon S2 (Series – AMC) created by David Zabel
VFX Studio: MPC Paris
Corentin Bachelet (Environment Department Head) – Angela Mikrut (Environment Artist) Sandro Bertchi (Environment Artist) – Frédéric Perrin (Environment Artist)
The Lord of the Rings : The Rings of Power S2 (Series – Amazon Prime Video) Showrunners: J.D. Payne – Patrick McKay
VFX Studio: The Yard
Best Effects Simulation
Fabian Nowak (FX Department Head) – Bertrand Garnier (FX Artist)
Hadrien Palanca (FX Artist) – Nicolas Daguin (FX Artist)
The Lord of the Rings : The Rings of Power S2 (Series – Amazon Prime Video) Showrunners: J.D. Payne – Patrick McKay WINNER
VFX Studio: The Yard
Geoffrey Niquet (VFX Supervisor) – Annabelle Zoëllin (VFX Producer)
Xavier Allard (Sequence Lead)
Argylle directed by Matthew Vaughn (film)
VFX Studio: BUF
Arnaud Fouquet (General VFX Supervisor) – Pierre Carcedo (Lead FX)
Louis Maëro (Lead Crowd) – Marine Pons (Artist CFX)
Sous la Seine directed by Xavier Gens (film)
VFX Studio: MPC Paris
Best Student Film – VFX/CGI
Martin Morant - Lilian Lefait - Macéo Chavey - Maxime Lu Cong Sang - Mélie Morice - Mathieu Bron
Verdun
Ecole: ArtFX WINNER
Trash
ESMA
Dawn
ESMA
Lunar Data Vault
New Edge
Courage
Supinfocom Rubika
GENIE Honorary Award 2025
The GENIE Visionary Award rewards a personality of the digital creation industry for significant and lasting contributions to the art and science by way of vision, artistry, invention and innovation.
Michael Pangrazio is one of the leading art directors in American cinema, best known for his matte painting work on Hollywood classics such as "Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" and "King Kong".
Michael Pangrazio began his career as a set designer for a television station. In 1978, he met Joe Johnston of Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), who helped him land a job at the studio. With no previous experience, Pangrazio learned the art of matte painting under the guidance of renowned conceptual artist Ralph McQuarrie over the next three years.
Pangrazio's contributions to several iconic films include painting the backdrops for most of the stop-motion shots in the Imperial Walker/Hoth sequence in "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980). His work on the final shot of the government warehouse in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981), which involved combining glass painting with live images, is celebrated as one of the greatest matte-painting achievements in film history. He also created the matte-paintings for Pankot's palace, the cliff and the village in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" (1984), as well as numerous scenes in "The Secret of the Pyramid" (1985).
In 1988, after leaving ILM, Pangrazio co-founded Matte World Digital with Craig Barron, where he continued his collaboration with ILM. In 1994, he moved to Oregon to concentrate on a career in children's book illustration, contributing to numerous publications.
In 2005, Pangrazio returned to the film industry as Art Director at Weta Digital in New Zealand, where he oversaw the visual effects for several major productions, including Peter Jackson's "King Kong" (2005), "Lovely Bones" (2009) and "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" (2012).
Roxane Fechner
On the occasion of PIDS ENGHIEN (January 22-25, 2025), the Arts Centre and the town of Enghien-les-Bains are pleased to announce that Roxane Fechner, visual effects supervisor and producer, will receive a Genie d'Honneur on Wednesday January 22, 2025 at the next GENIE Awards ceremony.
The GENIE d'Honneur is awarded to an individual whose creativity and vision have contributed to the development of the film and moving image industry.
Trained in art history and interior design at the École Boulle and Emerson College, Roxane began her career in set decoration in 1994, before specializing in visual effects in the early 2000s.
With over 45 films to her credit, she has worked as a visual effects supervisor and producer, collaborating on numerous French and international projects with leading studios in Europe, the United States, Canada and China. She has worked with filmmakers such as Pierre Morel ("Taken"; "From Paris with Love"), Gérard Krawczyk ("Taxi 4"), Laurent Tirard ("Asterix and Obelix: At Her Majesty's Service"; "The Speech"), Louis Leterrier and Thomas Vinterberg. She is currently working on the next films by Alice Winocour and Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz (Golden Lion at Venice 2016).
After more than 10 years with Groupe Eclair, Roxane helped launch the Mikros Image VFX studio in Montreal in 2011, before returning to France as a freelancer.
A member of the Board of Directors of the Visual Effects Society and FranceVFX, Roxane Fechner has contributed to the recognition of the role of visual effects in French cinema, as well as to greater visibility of gender equality within the industry.
For his creativity and commitment to a more egalitarian and inclusive industry, PIDS Enghien is pleased and proud to award him an honorary GENIE.
Previous GENIE Honorary Awards
2015: Neil Corbould
2016: Dennis Muren, Rodolphe Chabrier, Jacques Bled
2017: Joe Letteri, Pierre Buffin
2018: Phil Tippett, Christian Guillon
2019: John Knoll, Eve Ramboz
2020: Chris Edwards, Olivier Emery
2022: Rob Legato, Jerzy Kular et Xavier Nicolas
2023: Doug Chiang, Alain Carsoux
2024: Guillaume Rocheron