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Scott HILLIER, Festival President & Founder
Scott Hillier is a Director / Cinematographer / Screenwriter based in Paris. During his 20 years in the television and film industries, Scott has gained international recognition from his strong cinematography, editing, writing, producing and directing portfolio.

Scott started in the television industry in Australia before moving to London in 1988 where he managed to get a job working in Baghdad for the BBC, which led him into spending 10 years traveling the world for the BBC, mainly in war zones like Somalia, Bosnia, Tchetcheynia, Kashmir and Lebanon. After a near fatal encounter with a Russian bomber in Tchechnyia, Scott gave up wars and wrote and directed “Behind the Eyes of War!” which was awarded “Best Short Dramatic Film” at the New York Independent Film and TV festival in 1999.

Moving to New York City in 1998, Scott directed and photographed eight one-hour documentaries for National Geographic / The Discovery Channel and also served as Director of Photography on the documentary “Twin Towers” which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject 2003. The diverse creative areas that he has worked in include documentaries, music videos, commercials, feature and short films. He served as Supervising Producer / Director for the critically acclaimed CBS 42 part reality series “The Bravest” in 2002 and wrote and directed the stage play “Deadman’s Mai l” which ran at Le Théâtre du Moulin de la Galette in Paris during the summer of 2004. In 2004 Scott spent 3 months in Ethiopia producing a “Worlds Apart” pilot for ABC America / True Entertainment / Endemol.

Scott studied film at New York University and The London Film and Television school as well as literary non-fiction writing at Columbia University. His regular clients include BBC, Microsoft, ABC, PBS and National Geographic. During the last year (2006) Scott has spent time working on documentaries for Channel Four, Channel Five, The Discovery Channel, HBO and The BBC as well as writing more screenplays and finishing his second play “Trilogie – Part I”. Between filming assignments he teaches film (a Masters Degree in Screenwriting at the Eicar International Film School in Paris) and journalism (Formation des Journalistes Français in Paris).
Scott Hillier’s Biography

Jean-Marie ALLIN, General Manager
From 1998 to 2003, Jean-Marie Allin was the head of analysis and prospective for media activities for Vivendi Universal, taking part in several major media M&As, as well as business planning investments in media ventures.

He later advised Fortune 50 companies on business planning issues related to strategy and media. As former CFO of Thema Production, an investment fund focusing on film rights acquisition and production, he elaborated the financing structure on films such as A Good Woman (w/ Scarlett Johannson) or Three (w/ Billy Zane).

He currently works as an independent consultant in the audio-visual industry. Jean-Marie Allin has degrees in Political Science from Sciences Po (Lyon, France) and UCLA, and an MBA from Portland State University (Oregon, USA).
Poem Jean-Marie