Kingston Avenue

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Armel Hostiou

Armel Hostiou is a French filmmaker

Biography

Armel Hostiou studied at La Fémis cinema school in Paris, he graduated in 2003.

Then he directed several short films, SoloS, Contre Temps, Lost You, Chorus, Kino, World was on Fire and No One Could Save Me But You, Psycho Motion, La ville bleue.

Those films won different awards in film festivals Best experimental Film Tel Aviv 2004 for SoloS, Audience Award Munich 2006 for Contre Temps, Jury Award San Francisco Independent Exposure 2008 for Kino, Audience Award San Francisco Metacafe Festival 2009 for World was on Fire and no one could save me but You.

Hostiou also directed music videos for French and American bands (Babx, Fantazio, Poni Hoax, Limousine, DM Stith, Foma) and some experimental films and video installations.

Day, his first feature film, produced by Bocalupo Films was premiered at the Cannes film festival in 2011 in the Acid selection.

U.S. premiere took place at the European Film festival in the Miami Beach Cinematheque as the opening film of the festival.

Vincent Macaigne

Vincent Macaigne (born 19 October 1978) is a French actor, theatre director and film director. He is also a screenwriter and playwright.

Life and career

Macaigne was raised in Paris, the son of a French businessman and an Iranian-born painter. He has an elder brother, who is a forensic doctor. He attended the CNSAD between 1999 and 2002, and staged his first play in 2004. Throughout the 2000s, he acted in several theatre productions and also wrote and staged a number of plays. He suffered two strokes at just thirty years old, one of which occurred after his 2009 staging of the theatrical adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. In an interview, he said the stroke has had no lasting consequences to his health.

His short film What We'll Leave Behind (Ce qu'il restera de nous) won the Grand Prix at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, and was nominated for the César Award for Best Short Film.

In 2014, he received nominations for the César Award for Most Promising Actor and the Lumières Award for Most Promising Actor for his role in La Fille du 14 juillet.