Nationality French Name Raphael Millet | Role Writer Books Singapore cinema | |
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Occupation writer, critic, producer, director Movies Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory, Code Name Melville, Halfway There Similar People Olivier Bohler, Andre S Labarthe, Johnnie To, Masahiro Kobayashi, Volker Schlondorff | ||
Raphaël Millet is a French writer, critic, producer and director of cinema and television, as well as an organiser and programmer of photographic and cultural events.
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Studies
Having completed his secondary education at lycée Henri-IV in Paris, Raphaël Millet graduated from the Paris Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) in 1994, obtained a master's degree (diplôme d'études approfondies – DEA) in political science (with a specialization in African studies) from University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne in 1995, and a master's degree (diplôme d'études approfondies – DEA) in film studies from University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle in 1996.
Career
Raphaël Millet started his career in 1996–97 as a consultant for the Paris office of international law firm Shearman & Sterling, then for the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie. In 1998, he joined French National Center of Cinematography and the moving image, as advisor to the CEO. In 1999, he joined French public national television broadcaster France Télévisions, as advisor to the CEO. In 2000, he became counselor for culture, cinema, television and new media, attached to the Minister of Overseas France, Christian Paul. Simultaneously, from 1997 to 2002, he taught film studies at La Sorbonne University.
In 2002, Raphaël Millet joined the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2002 to 2006, he was posted as Cultural attaché in the Singapore, where he supervised the programming of the annual French Film Festival, and where he organised the outdoor exhibition Earth from Above (La Terre vue du ciel) by Yann Arthus-Bertrand on Orchard Road. From 2006 to 2008, he was posted in Dubai as Regional Audiovisual attaché for the Middle East.
In 2007, he founded with Olivier Bohler a production company called Nocturnes Productions which became active from 2008 onwards. There, he served as executive producer on feature documentary Code Name Melville (2008) and Jean-Luc Godard / Disorder Exposed (2012), as well as director on feature documentaries such as Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory (2011), The Cinematographic Voyage of Gaston Méliès to Tahiti (2014), Gaston Méliès and his Wandering Star Film Company (2015) and Chaplin in Bali (2017).
From 2009 onwards, while retaining his production activities, Raphaël Millet joined as a partner Singapore-based creative communications company Phish Communications, where he helped program the Month of Photography Asia and develop public relations in the arts and culture for clients such as the Peranakan Museum and Art Stage Singapore.
Since 1995, Raphaël Millet has also kept on writing articles (for magazines such as Qantara, Cinémathèque, Positif, Trafic, Atlas des Cahiers du cinéma and Simulacres, as well as for festival catalogues), together with books generally about cinema (with a specialization both in Middle Eastern and Asian cinemas). He has also published a collection of unrhymed tercet poems about melancholy loosely influenced by both Celt tercets and Japanese haikus.