Nicolas Chalons – IIW STUDIO & LUX
Directeur Technique – CTO

Trained at the Beaux Arts, then an audiovisual B.T.S and finally at the Esra Groupe, Nicolas Chalons began his career as a camera assistant then director of photography. In 2012 he joined the Technicolor group where he became technical manager of the image division. Founder of Lux, he is now the technical director of IIW STUDIO and LUX

IMAGE IN WORK is a creative studio founded in 2012 and composed of two departments, thus covering the entire image post-production chain:

• IMAGE IN WORK is a creative studio founded in 2012 and composed of two departments, thus covering the entire image post-production chain:

Filmography: La sonate de Andrew Desmond, Falcon Lake de Charlotte Le bon, publicités lego, Bri de Jeremie Guez

• LUX is a digital post-production laboratory founded in 2021 around our colorist and resident artistic director Fabien Pascal.Located in the heart of Paris, our creative and technical teams will follow your feature film, series and commercial projects from their development phases. development until the delivery of your masters, while ensuring an optimum workflow and maximum security.

Filmography : Kompromat de Jérôme Salle, StarWars Eclipse de Quantic Dream, Presencias de Luis Mandoki, Falcon Lake de Charlotte le Bon, Les trois mousquetaires de Martin Bourboulon, Bri de Jeremie Guez

Natacha Thomas – IIW STUDIO & LUX
Directrice des Productions – Studio Manager

A graduate in the history of cinema and communication, Natacha Thomas began her career as a cinema press officer.

She then turned to production where she worked as a producer and director of production and post-production. She is now Productions Director for IIW Studio and LUX

IMAGE IN WORK is a creative studio founded in 2012 and composed of two departments, thus covering the entire image post-production chain:

• IMAGE IN WORK is a creative studio founded in 2012 and composed of two departments, thus covering the entire image post-production chain:

Filmography: La sonate de Andrew Desmond, Falcon Lake de Charlotte Le bon, publicités lego, Bri de Jeremie Guez

• LUX is a digital post-production laboratory founded in 2021 around our colorist and resident artistic director Fabien Pascal.Located in the heart of Paris, our creative and technical teams will follow your feature film, series and commercial projects from their development phases. development until the delivery of your masters, while ensuring an optimum workflow and maximum security.

Filmography : Kompromat de Jérôme Salle, StarWars Eclipse de Quantic Dream, Presencias de Luis Mandoki, Falcon Lake de Charlotte le Bon, Les trois mousquetaires de Martin Bourboulon, Bri de Jeremie Guez

Laurent Fumeron – IIW STUDIO & LUX
Direction / Production – CEO

Graduated with a master’s degree in literature from the Sorbonne and an MBA in audiovisual production from the MBA ESG, Laurent Fumeron is a producer for The project film club

Also passionate about post production, he joined IIW STUDIO in 2014 and became its president in 2019. In 2021, he founded LUX.

IMAGE IN WORK is a creative studio founded in 2012 and composed of two departments, thus covering the entire image post-production chain:

• IMAGE IN WORK is a creative studio founded in 2012 and composed of two departments, thus covering the entire image post-production chain:

Filmography: La sonate de Andrew Desmond, Falcon Lake de Charlotte Le bon, publicités lego, Bri de Jeremie Guez

• LUX is a digital post-production laboratory founded in 2021 around our colorist and resident artistic director Fabien Pascal.Located in the heart of Paris, our creative and technical teams will follow your feature film, series and commercial projects from their development phases. development until the delivery of your masters, while ensuring an optimum workflow and maximum security.

Filmography : Kompromat de Jérôme Salle, StarWars Eclipse de Quantic Dream, Presencias de Luis Mandoki, Falcon Lake de Charlotte le Bon, Les trois mousquetaires de Martin Bourboulon, Bri de Jeremie Guez

Cyril Le Pesant

Cyril Le Pesant joined Gaumont in 2020 as the new Entertainment & Families Director in Paris. Cyril Le Pesant works in collaboration with the teams in the United States on IP sourcing, co-productions, development and production, mainly focusing on the management of the Paris-based studio. Previously, Cyril was co-founder and CEO of KNIGHTWORKS, a production, animation and creative studio based in Paris. Since KNIGHTWORKS’ debut in 2009, Cyril has partnered with a long list of prestigious clients and produced animated series, films and documentaries.

Umaru Emballo

After 15 years of experience in the creation and production of computer graphics through different formats: films, series, VFX, video mapping and VR. The former associate creative director of the Parisian studio KNIGHTWORKS joins SPooN, an innovative company that produces interactive characters.

Always seeking to push creative and technical innovations further, Umaru builds with the SPooN team, linking it between animation and storytelling techniques with artificial intelligence and human-machine interaction.

Virginie Bourdin

The Art of Direction (AOD) is a visual development studio specializing in fiction and animation. We are dedicated to creating original and innovative ideas primarily for production design, visual effects and marketing.
By bringing together teams of talents dedicated to the specificities of each project, we produce the concepts for films such as Captain Marvel, Jurassic World, Assassins Creed, Red Notice, The School for good and Evil, etc…

The Art of Direction was started in 2015 by Virginie Bourdin, former VFX Art Director at MPC Film London, where she established the first VFX Concept Artist position and the VFX Art Department in 2003 which she ran for almost 10 years. . The Art of Direction was started in 2015 by Virginie Bourdin, former VFX Art Director at MPC Film London, where she established the first VFX Concept Artist position and the VFX Art Department in 2003 which she ran for almost 10 years. .

Bastien Chauvet

Passionate about special effects since childhood, he founded a theater and cinema association at the age of 16, then joined the Georges Méliès school from which he graduated in 2005.
Christian Guillon hired him at EST for several films, including his first shoot on Asterix 3. Il collabore ensuite avec Mikros et Def(2)shoot où Franck Malmin lui offre sa première supervision en 2008. He then collaborated with Mikros and Def(2)shoot where Franck Malmin offered him his first supervision in 2008.
He then created “La Cour des Miracles”, specializing in 2D and 3D imitation. (Mosquito, Cicada and Burglar by C.Babouche).
Oscillating between Live and Animation, he collaborates with Zodiak Kids, Europa (PlayGround by Olivier Schneider and Pascal Sid, Tycoon by L.Letterier, Valerian by L.Besson), or Mikros Animation (Sherlock Gnomes by John Stevenson).
He then joined Weta Fx on Rampage and Mortal Engine.
Back in France, he took over the technical and visual direction of Ellipse Animation (Smurf – the serie, Belfort & Lupin), then collaborated with SupaMonks and WatchNext Media.
He joined MPC Paris in July 2021.
In parallel with his production activities, he returned to the Georges Méliès school as a teacher, where he has been teaching for 10 years.

Romain Cheminade
Co-founder and President of dark matters

With more than 15 years of international experience in the entertainment and film industry, Romain has put his talent and energy at the service of many innovative and prestigious projects, from conception to delivery. Romain has worked on a wide range of impressive projects: from spectacular animations for the Disney parks where he focused on special effects, to applying his expertise in In-camera visual effects while working on major films in the UK and in the United States in collaboration with partners such as Lux Machina, Industrial Light & Magic, Epic Games, Netflix.
Its technical, operational and managerial expertise has enabled it to obtain recognized and valued results in the entertainment and film industries. A true enthusiast, Romain has always innovated, combining technology and creativity, to offer the public visually stunning entertainment.
Romain has assembled a team of veterans with decades of industry expertise to create dark matters, a production campus offering film sets and support spaces, as well as services ranging from previsualization to virtual sets on LED screens.

Doug Chiang

Doug Chiang began his career as a stop motion animator on the television series Pee Wee’s Playhouse. After attending UCLA Film School, he became a director of commercials for Rhythm and Hues before joining George Lucas in 1991 to become creative director at ILM (Industrial Light & Magic).

In the 90s, he acted as artistic director of visual effects on several iconic films such as Terminator 2, Forrest Gump, The Mask or Jumanji.

In 2004, Doug Chiang created his own studio Ice Blink Studios. In 2006, he joined forces with the Walt Disney Company and Robert Zemeckis to found a new generation digital studio, Image Movers Digital, of which he became Executive President. During this period, he collaborated on several films by Robert Zemeckis (The Polar Express; Beowulf; A Christmas Carol) as Production Designer.

Doug Chiang returned to Lucasfilm in 2013 and is now Vice President and Executive Creative Director. He oversees designs for the Star Wars franchise, including movies, theme parks, games and new media. He also provides artistic direction for the tv series The Mandalorian, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka and Skeleton Crew. He recently collaborated with Robert Zemeckis on the film Pinocchio.

Doug Chiang has won numerous awards, including an Oscar®, 2 BAFTAs, two Clio Awards, a VES Award and an Art Directors Guild Award.

Eric De Wulf

Eric De Wulf is a special effects designer and is best known for his work on I Kill Giants (2017), Mandy (2018) and Iron Sky (2019).
Eric started his career about 30 years ago. In 1999, he founded Caramba Decor/SFX, a scenography, set construction and special effects company for the film industry. In 2013, he created WULF-FX which mainly focuses on creating special effects. Over the years, he has gained extensive experience in the fields of animatronics, pyrotechnics, elemental effects, prop making, mechanical effects, scale and miniature models, and design.

Mr DINH TRI DUNG
Directeur – Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics (MAAC)

Mr. DUNG, Dinh Tri is a true educator in the field of multimedia design, visual effects, animation and game art with more than 15 years of experience. With the Indian franchise, it established its 1st multimedia college in Hochiminh City in 2007 and expanded to a network of 6 training centers with 5,000 students enrolled.

In 2019, he introduced the franchise education model of VFX, Animation, Game Art Design in Vietnam and established the first such academy in the country. Mr. Dung is very active with the main VFX-Animation studio manager in Vietnam in forming a rather young association of VFX, animation vendors in the country and has a great ambition to build the strong post industry. -production in Vietnam in the coming time.

Éric Gandois (Storyboard artist)

After studying Applied Arts (ENSAMAA) and animation cinema (CFT Gobelins), a few internships
(Cryo/Ellipse animation/Disney studios Montreuil), pubs and short films, it was only when he met director Philippe Haïm that he was hired to storyboard his first feature film Les Dalton.
After several collaborations with Europacorp, in particular “Jack and the mechanics of the heart”, Luc besson will call on him for “Lucy” (biggest French success at the world box office) and especially “Valerian and the city of a thousand planets” which he will do the entire storyboard.
In 2014 he directed his first short film “Eve”, a science fiction film shot in stereoscopic 3D which will go around the world.
In recent years, Éric Gandois has become one of the most prolific French Storyboard Artists, trying his hand at all genres of cinema (Animation, action, comedy, history, science fiction, horror, etc…) and with more than 50 feature films and series on the counter:
The Children of Timpelbach and Le Petit Spirou (Nicolas Bary), Taxi 5 & Les Kaïras (Franck Gastambide), Tomorrow Everything Begins and My Unknown (Hugo Gélin), Brick Mansions and Transporter Refuelled (Camille Delamarre), Minion Mayhem (Pierre Coffin) , The Mechanics of the Heart and a Mermaid in Paris (Mathieu Malzieu), Super-Heroes Despite Him and How I Became a Super-Hero (Philippe Lacheau), the Versailles series, the savages, Notre-Dame la part du feu, Lupin …OSS117, Skirmishers, How I became a Super-Hero, Lost Bullet 2, Etc…

Coming soon is the next film by Philippe Lacheau, Luc Besson, and Jacques Audiard.
www.eric-gandois.com/
www.instagram.com/ericgandois_storyboard/
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TAN HOANG
PDG – VTC Académie

Mr. Tan Hoang is currently the CEO of VTC Academy – Vietnam’s leading educational institution in 3D animation and game art. VTC Academy welcomes more than 3500 students per year, in the 3 largest cities of Vietnam: Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh. VTC Academy is also RUBIKA’s exclusive partner in Southeast Asia. VTC Academy graduate students have worked on major projects, including Star Wars sequel trilogies, Marvel series, and triple-A game titles.

Mr. Tan Hoang is currently the CEO of VTC Academy – Vietnam’s leading educational institution in 3D animation and game art. VTC Academy welcomes more than 3500 students per year, in the 3 largest cities of Vietnam: Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh. VTC Academy is also RUBIKA’s exclusive partner in Southeast Asia. VTC Academy graduate students have worked on major projects, including Star Wars sequel trilogies, Marvel series, and triple-A game titles.

Xavier Roy

Xavier Roy est un producteur exécutif français. Au sein de la société Froggie Production, il produit depuis plus de vingt ans des tournages en France pour des films et séries TV étrangères, principalement pour des studios américains et anglais.
Il est actuellement en préparation d’une série américaine bénéficiant du bonus VFX du Crédit d’Impôt International.

Jérôme Monceaux

Jérôme Monceaux is a world-renowned expert in the autonomous, interactive and social robotics sector, he is an engineer, multi-entrepreneur, co-founder of Aldebaran and co-designer of the Pepper, Nao and Romeo robots.

Jérôme Monceaux then became vice-president in charge of the creative and technological dimensions at SoftBank He carries the company’s vision, develops the software architecture and coordinates the 300 engineers on the creation of Pepper and its deployment in Japan in record time, directly linked to Masayoshi Son (CEO Softbank) and Terry Gou (CEO Foxconn).

In 2015 he founded Spoon, a company that creates interactive characters called Spoonies. These digital characters accompany us in different areas of life such as cultural spaces, cities or even cars and smartphones, bringing service and magic to our daily lives. He recently created the company

Enchanted Tools, which aims to captivate the world by bringing a sense of enchantment to technological innovation.

Enchanted Tools unveiled its first prototype, Miroki, on November 29 in Paris. Miroki is a character robot developed in less than a year by a team of 50 employees who intend to revolutionize robotics.

The robot will bring a major innovation in social logistics and will start to be used in the health sector, especially in hospitals.

Alexis Perrin

Rumble Fish is a production company created by Alexis Perrin, former production manager at BUF (Thor, The Grandmaster, Nymphomaniac, L’Odyssée de Pi) and former founder of Logical Pictures (Revenge, Incident in a Ghostland, Swallow).

In 2022, Alexis produced VESPER CHRONICLES, a science fiction tale written and directed by Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper, which was distributed by Condor in France. Rumble Fish also co-produced SALOUM by Jean Luc Herbulot, selected in Toronto (“Midnight Madness”); or the Australian film BLAZE by Del Kathryn Barton, which premiered in Tribeca.

Other Rumble Fish credits include FACE A LA NUIT by Wi Ding Ho (Platform Award at TIFF 2018; Grand Jury Prize at the Beaune Festival) and BLOOD MACHINES by Seth Ickerman.

Hoang Quan Nguyen

Quan was a successful musician and film producer with 15 years of creative experience. He was a well-known musician and composer before spending many years working for OgilvyOne Vietnam and DigiPencil/Pencil Group as Content Director. In 2018, he founded ProductionQ in partnership with director Tran Huu Tan. His three thrillers and horror films, Chuyen Ma Gan Nha (Vietnamese Horror Stories), the highest-grossing horror film in Vietnam, and Bac Kim Thang (Home Sweet Home) which was officially selected by BIFF 2019, and Rung The Mang (Survive) were efficiently and consistently produced by him under the ProductionQ roof. He is currently working on the upcoming 2023 release of The Village.

Bruno Samper

After studying visual arts and semiotics, Bruno founded the online multimedia magazine “Panoplie.org” in 1998 and explored with many guest artists the new possibilities offered by a medium still in its infancy: interactive narration.

In 2001, “Panoplie.org” became “Panoplie studio”, a company that develops digital interfaces and multimedia productions. The studio has earned a strong reputation and received numerous awards for its work. At the same time, he also develops interactive fiction, games and persistent universe concepts online. Thus, in 2002, Bruno designed “Society”, the first multiplayer video game acquired by the French institution “Fonds National d’Art Contemporain”.

In 2018, Bruno created an augmented reality narrative experience “Enter the room” for the International Committee of the Red Cross, which has participated in numerous festivals, including the Siggraph, and has won numerous awards.

In parallel, Bruno also works with Kristina Buozyte on film productions:

In 2008, he was co-screenwriter of the film “La collectionneuse”, a Franco-Lithuanian co-production.

In 2012, he was both co-author and creative director of the film “Vanishing Waves” (which won 24 international awards, including the Méliès d’Or).

In 2014, he co-wrote and co-directed the short film “Knell” for the American fantasy anthology “ABC’s of Death 2”.

In 2022, he is co-writer and co-director of the film “Vesper Chronicles”.

Laurens EHRMANN – Senior VFX Supervisor | Founder The Yard
Harry BARDAK – VFX Supervisor | Head of VFX @ THE YARD
Fabian Nowak – Head of FX dept

THE YARD is a French company founded in 2014 by Laurens Ehrmann and specialized in digital special effects services provided to film producers for cinema and episodic distribution platforms. Our teams develop tools and talents to provide creative expertise that meets the requirements of the national and international market.

BAD CLAY / AIOI STUDIOS

Bad Clay Studio is a Vietnamese boutique visual effects studio for feature films, television and other media. The Studio was founded in 2013 and based in Ho Chi Minh City. The studio has since become one of Vietnam’s leading cinematic visual effects studios, with credits on over 30 Vietnamese feature films, as well as an outsourcing partner for international studios.
The studio is headed by veteran Franco-Vietnamese VFX artist Thierry Nguyen, who has 20 years of experience in the UK, French and Asian VFX industries. It aims to continue supporting Vietnam’s growing success story by developing and finding local talent and making Bad Clay one of the most versatile and professional studios in Southeast Asia.
In 2022, BadClay joined forces with other studios in Vietnam and Korea to create AIOI Studios, a full-fledged visual effects and animation studio capable of delivering a complete end-to-end production pipeline. AIOI will start developing and producing its own I.P. content with local to global projects.