Frédéric Goupil

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Frédéric Goupil (* 1962 ) is a French director and screenwriter .

Life

Frédéric Goupil began his professional career as a photographer. He completed a 3-year training course at the "EFET" photography school in Paris , made reports , set photos for film productions, fashion photos and portraits and breathed new life into an old photo studio in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, the "Studio George V" a.

In the early 1990s, he was commissioned to take portraits of director Tony Gatlif . Frédéric Goupil offered the director the opportunity to take set photos for his next shoot. Gatlif declined the offer but instead offered to become his assistant director. In the following years they made six films together.

From then on, Frédéric Goupil devoted himself exclusively to film , working as an assistant director with directors such as Arnaud des Pallières and Fabrice Gobert . At the same time he began a career as a director, for example in children's film projects such as Les Enquêtes de chlorophylle or the documentary The wild farm . He made several reports on Syria - a country for which he feels a great fascination ( Faut pas rêver , Le Magazine de l'Ailleurs ). Here he also made his first feature-length film as a writer and director, the television film Le sourire d'Hassan in coproduction with ARTE . For the successful French television series The Returned (original title: Les Revenants ) he worked again with Fabrice Gobert and co-directed the second season in 2014/15.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1993: Les Enquêtes de chlorophylle
  • 2004: Le Sourire d'Hassan
  • 2008: The wild farm ( La vie sauvage des animaux domestiques , documentation)
  • 2015: The Returned ( Les Revenants , TV series)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The wild farm on looksfilm.tv. Retrieved May 16, 2016 .
  2. ^ Snow in Kurdistan in the IMDb. Retrieved May 16, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Goupil, Frédéric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1962