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Allan Clarke

Allan Clarke - President

Allan Clarke is an multi award winning Muruwari and Gomeroi filmmaker, investigative journalist and writer who has made significant contributions to the representation of Indigenous issues and people in the media. Allan’s work aims to give agency to Indigenous people through storytelling. His most notable work includes; two-part television series and accompanying podcast Blood on the Tracks for the ABC, feature documentary The Bowraville Murders and feature documentary The Dark Emu Story. His Writing credits include TV series The School That Tried To End Racism, feature documentary Rose Gold, TV series Ray Martin : The Last Goodbye and TV drama Invisible Boys. Allan has won numerous awards for his work, including the 1er prix spécial du jury FIFO 2022, two Australian Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism and the United Nations Media Peace Prize and the United Nations Media Peace Prize. In 2018, Allan was recognised by the NSW Parliament for his pursuit of justice for Aboriginal victims of crime through his storytelling. His latest film, The Dark Emu Story, is a revelatory and inspiring feature length documentary which challenged thinking around Indigenous culture pre-colonisation. The film received several awards and sparked a lively national discourse and debate around Australian history.
Allan now lives in La Rochelle.




 

Margot BancilhonMargot Bancilhon

Margot took her first steps as an actress on television thanks to the series Tiger Lily, quatre femmes dans la vie. That same year, she revealed herself in cinema with the film Les Petits Princes by Vianney Lebasque and was nominated for best female newcomer at the 2014 César Awards. She appeared in several French TV films and series such as A corde tendue, Caïn, Palace Beach Hôtel, Criminal: France, L'île prisonnière, L'invitation and in 2023 the series De Grâce for which she was crowned best actress at Séries Mania. In cinema we see her in Nous trois ou rien, Five, Going to Brazil, Ma sacrée jeunesse, La Monnaie de leur pièce, Trois jours et une vie be Nicolas Boukhrief and Une année difficile by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache. In 2024, she appeared on Arte alongside Joey Starr in the series Machine which won the prize for best French series at Série Mania.

 

 

 


Laurent'Frédéric Bollée (c)Francesca_MantovaniLaurent-Frédéric Bollée

He was born in 1967 in Orléans and divides his time between the Paris region and Brittany. After a career as a journalist, notably at France 2 (Stade 2) and RMC, he has devoted himself for several years to his profession as a comic book scriptwriter. Author of more than 80 albums, he is notably the co-writer of the graphic novel La Bombe (Glénat, 2020), on the “saga” of the atomic bomb between 1933 and 1945, sold to date in more than 160,000 copies and translated into eighteen languages. He is also responsible for notable graphic novels, such as Les Illuminés (Delcourt, 2023), on Arthur Rimbaud et Paul Verlaine as well as L’Eternité béante (Futuropolis, 2024), co-written with the scientist philosopher Etienne Klein. Also fascinated by the early years of modern Australia, he has to his credit several albums and more than a thousand pages depicting the birth of the colony of Sydney (Terra Australis and Terra Doloris, Glénat, 2013 and 2018, Les Horizons amers, Robinson, 2023). He is currently working on the graphic adaptation of the novel Voss by the Australian writer Patrick White, Nobel Prize for Literature 1973. Passionate about cinema, he has also written two comic book biographies devoted to famous actors: Patrick Dewaere, à part ça la vie est belle (2021) and Belmondo, peut-être que je rêve debout (2024), released a few weeks ago.

Photo : Francesca Mantovani


Beatrice-de-la-Boulaye---c-Cindy-DoutresBéatrice de La Boulaye

Born in Vendée, she studied literature in Poitiers, Paris and then Dublin. She began acting at the age of 20 in the youth show KD2A on France 2, where she played the role of Anne-Sophie Mansard. At the same time, she developed a career as a director and producer through various projects: Fin de partie by Samuel Beckett, L’Ecume des Jours by Boris Vian, Rien ne se perd and La Fabrique a Kifs, original creations that she co-wrote. In 2008, she co-founded and produced Airnadette, a collective of parodic and offbeat performers, in which she played the character of Scotch Brit on the biggest stages in France and around the world. In 15 years, she co-wrote and co-produced shows as well as 2 documentaries (United States of Airnadette and AGWC by Airnadette for Canal +), a web series (Dans ton Culte for Golden Moustache), a radio show (Démesurément Culte for OUÏ FM), a children's book (Du Rock dans ton Salon, chez Marcel et Joachim), a karaoke microphone (Le Big Mike) and various events including the Secours Pop Rocks, for the benefit of Secours Populaire. After 15 years of good and joyful service, the group bowed out on December 9 at the Trianon. Airnadette This is the End is now available on Comédie + and Olympia TV. Since 2017, she has co-directed and performed in La Comédie Presque Française, which reinterprets classics for the theater and the Comédie + channel (Dom Juan Les Pins by Presque Molière, Les Feux de l’Amour et du Hasard by Presque Marivaux, L’Ecole des Naans by Presque Molière). Since 2019, she has played Captain Gaëlle Crivelli in the series Tropiques Criminels on France 2. Currently, she presents Héroïnes her first one-woman show in Paris and on tour throughout France.

Photo : Cindy Doutres


 

Constance GayConstance Gay

After studying journalism, it was by joining the Classe Libre du Cours Florent that Constance left this environment to become an actress. She was spotted in Belgium to play the main character in the series Unité 42, broadcast on Netflix and France 2. In 2020, she was chosen to play the main role in Face à Face, a new series on France Tv. She can also be seen in the TV movie Meurtre à Arles by Octave Raspail. Alongside Michael Youn, she will be the heroine of the series Flashback, soon to be broadcast on TF1 and several platforms. In 2025, a genre TV movie, Maudits, directed by Chloé Micout, will also be released on France Tv. On the big screen, she plays the leading female role in the period film Vaincre ou Mourir by Paul Mignot and Vincent Mottez, a biopic on General Charette, released in January 2023. In addition to her work as an actress, she is a photographer and director.

 

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