Jonathan Taieb

Jonathan Taieb started his career on several projects in Marseille. He wrote, directed and produced his first short feature, "Vivre la bête" when he was 19 before writing, directing and producing several other shorts. At age 21 he moved to Paris where he spent three years developing his first feature length, "Le Monde Doit M'Arriver" (Find The Way), which had a successful run in the festival circuit and came out in theaters in France in the fall of 2013. His second feature, "Stand", a micro-budget Russian-language film that deals with homophobia that he shot secretly in the region. The film starts its run on the festival circuit at Frameline in San Francisco summer 2014 and got more than 100 festivals worldwide. Jonathan was invited as a "Berlinale Talent" in 2015. He's working now on his next film.