Charles Tesson
Artistic director
As film critic, Charles Tesson wrote several important books on cinema and he is a senior lecturer in Film History and Aesthetics at La Sorbonne Nouvelle (paris III). He has wrote for many years for Les Cahiers du Cinéma, where he was the editor-in-chief from 1998 to 2003. He entered the Selection Committee of La Semaine de la Critique for the 49th and 50th editions, before becoming its Artistic Director in April 2011. He is also the President of the Aide aux Cinéma du Monde commission (CNC, French Institute) from 2016.
Feature Films
Thomas Baurez
Annick Peigné-Giuly
Olivier Pélisson
Olivier Pelisson is a journalist and film critic, he writes for Bande à Part, Bref and for Canal+ Grand Écran channel. He used to work for Zurban, DvdLive, Monsieur Cinéma, Le Cinéma dans les yeux, French Mania and Top of the Shorts show on Canal+ Cinema. Over the years, Pélisson has been programmer (Paris Film Festival), script reader (France 2 Cinéma, CNC), he has hosted some film critic workshops (Paris, Cannes, Hambourg, Bakouriani, Erevan), festivals debates and meetings (La Ciotat, Moulins). He takes part of international juries and is a member of the board of directors of the French Union of Film Critics. Olivier Pelisson is one of the contributor of Dictionnaire Eustache published by Léo Sheer editions. Since 2015, he is in La Semaine de la Critique selection committee.
Ariane Allard
Xavier Leherpeur
Thomas Baurez
After a prior experience in short and feature films production and distribution, Thomas chose to become a journalist and a film critic, activity he has taken up fully since 2004, collaborating first with Studio Magazine and afterwards with StudioCineLive.
Short Films
Fabien Gaffez
Coordinator
Iris Brey
