Name Christian Volckman Role Painter | Movies Renaissance, Maaz Books Renaissance | |
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Similar People Alexandre de La Patelliere, Matthieu Delaporte, Crystal Shepherd‑Cross, Pascal Tosi, Catherine McCormack | ||
Christian Volckman (b. 1971) is a french film director, author, and painter. He is a graduate of Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Graphiques in Paris.
He is mainly known for his motion capture animation feature film Renaissance, with the English voices of Daniel Craig, Romola Garai, Jonathan Pryce, and Ian Holm, which won the Feature Film Award at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. in 2006 and Best Feature Film at the 5th Festival of European Animated Feature Films and TV Specials in 2007. The film, distributed by Miramax, received mixed reviews.
His other film work includes music videos and two shorts, Le cobaye, which received a Prix du Jury at Annecy in 1995, and Maaz, which has been shown at nearly 100 festivals and won 30 prizes, including two for sound.
Volckman has directed several music videos, including "Miss Chang" and " Once upon a Time" for the group Chinese Man. "Paris sera toujours Paris", "Sous le ciel de Paris" and "Champs Elysées" for the singer ZAZ. "Requiem" is the song for Alma that represents France at the Eurovision 2017.
In 2008, he and visual artist Raphael Thierry started the website ©®, an artistic collaboration developing thematic films and exhibitions named THEFLOW.
He is scheduled to direct The Room, with Olga Kurylenko and Justin Chatwin.
He is developing two other films: Rapaces (Predator), produced by Oriflammes Films, and The Kid, produced by Bidibul productions and Superprod.