Stéphane Guenin

Since he was 3 years old and thanks to his parents who were true moviegoers, Stephane Guenin has been introduced to powerful and entertaining movies such as "The Jungle Book", "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "Serpico", "The 3 Days of the Condor", "The Sting", and others. After completing a PhD of Law at Paris II Pantheon-Assas law school, he was in charge of numerous clients for a product placement company - Film Media Consultant - for both feature films and TV shows like "Goldeneye", "Taxi 1 and 2", "Les Visiteurs 2", "Ronin". This gave him experience and the idea to create his own feature film production and distribution company - JDM Productions - that he ran from 1999-2006. In 2007 Stephane Guenin was elected as General Delegate and President of the French Producer's Guid, AFPF (2012-2017). Stephane Guenin was also a junior partner of GSFR Paris, a law firm where he practiced entertainment law for 6 years (2000-2006), mainly representing authors. Stephane wrote several screenplays which were the adaptation of the Hasbro's game, "Clue", a prime time show for the French National TV Network France 3 which were his first steps as a filmmaker. This film debut has been followed by 3 short films, "Fer 5", "Gun!" and "Janus". "The 7th Lie", his first feature film was presented at the 2003 Savannah International Film festival for its World Premiere, to the 2004 Sarlat Film Festival for its European Premiere, to the 2004 Films de Quartier in Dakar for its African Premiere, then to the 2005 Paris Film Festival and the 2005 French Film Festival in Cosne/Loire. "Stigmatize", (screened at 2009 Clermont Ferrand Film Festival and 2009 Berlin Kurtz Film Festival) is a strong but still humorous warning sent to those who practice their religion without any understanding of the peace and wisdom message that it delivers and who kill for their derived believing. It features actors such as Diane Haziel with whom Stephane had worked since his first short film, "Fer 5", Beatrice Romand (Best actress award in a leading role at 1988 Venice Mostra for "Un beau marriage") and Hiro Uchiyama. In 2007, Stephane Guenin also directed a couple of documentaries, one dedicated to the 60th Cannes festival ceremony and the other in which he showed the behind the scene of an international ice skating world event, the 2007 Eric Bompard Trophee. In 2011, Stephane Guenin completed a concert film starring the French violin virtuoso, Frederic Moreau, titled "Trio Solstice". In 2012, Stephane Guenin co-produced and co-directed a short film which had its World Premiere at the 2012 City Of Lights, City Of Angels (Col Coa) at the prestigious DGA theater in Los Angeles and is still entering in the major International Film Festivals around the world and won the Silver Screen Award at the 2012 NIFF and the Audience Award at the 2012 Cosnes/Loire French Film Festival In 2013, Stephane Guenin completed his second fiction feature film "L'Engagement 1.0" (aka "The Assignment 1.0). The film has been screened at the Laemele theater in Santa Monica for its Market Premiere at the 2013 AFM, then at the 2014 Berlinale under the Canadian Pavillion for the Panorama section. The film has been theatrically released in December 2015. In 2015, Stephane Guenin completed his most awarded short film "(Little) Red Riding Hood" which still runs the short film festivals (more than 105 selections and awards). Stephane Guenin is now completing the post production for his third fiction feature film, a US production film titled "Hard Skills". In between film productions, Stephane Guenin teaches in Paris at the Cefpf and at the prestigious ENS Louis Lumiere where he directs a Production masterclass.