NATHALIE PERUS

Nathalie is managing director and producer at Atlantique Productions, a leading independent television production company specializing in high quality TV drama such as Borgia, The Eddy, Jour Polaire, Hierro, Eden...Atlantique Productions is based in Paris and part of Mediawan Studios. Nathalie lived six years in New York City where she founded French In Motion to facilitate co-productions between France and the US. Prior to that she's been a TV executive at Canal+ Group and Fox International Channels, and worked as a creative producer, TV writer and development executive for various production companies such as EuropaCorp TV, Son & Lumière, Alef One and Dynamic Television.

Marine Notté 

Marine is an LA-based executive leading International TV at Hulu. Prior to joining the Disney group, she spent six years at Vivendi, first on StudioCanal's International Production team, then overseeing Content for the Dailymotion platform. Under her tenure as President of French In Motion, the team launched a West Coast Chapter, expanded the US & French Connection co-pro program, and turned the organization into a 501c3 non-profit.

Jean-Stephane Sauvaire

Jean-Stéphane is a New-York based French filmmaker.
His new feature "Black Flies" starring Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan is in competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2023.
His previous feature A Prayer Before Dawn premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and was screened internationally and distributed by A24 in the US. Jean-Stéphane’s first fiction feature, Johnny Mad Dog, also premiered at Cannes where it won the Un Certain Regard Prize for Hope. The film has since been screened in over twenty film festivals worldwide, winning numerous awards.

MATHIEU DEMY

Son of renowned filmmakers, Mathieu Demy started his career as an actor, working with the likes of Michel Hazanavicius, Pierre Salvadori, Benoît Cohen, André Téchiné, Emmanuelle Bercot, and Céline Sciamma. In 2011, he produced and directed Americano, a full feature film set between France, the US and Mexico. Based in Los Angeles, Mathieu has shifted his focus to TV series over the past few years: he directed and acted in Eric Rochant’s The Bureau, Fabrice Gobert’s Mytho and, more recently, On The Verge, created by Julie Delpy.

JALIL LESPERT

Jalil is a French actor, screenwriter, and director - son of the actor Jean Lespert and brother of the actor Yaniss Lespert. He started his career in the late 90s and he received a Cesar Award and a Lumiere Award for the most promising actor in 2000 for his performance in HUMAN RESOURCES (1999). From then on, Jalil went from one film to another such as LE PETIT LIEUTENANT (2004), THE ESCAPE (2017), L’ENFANT REVE (2020), and INFINITY POOL (2023). 

He also stepped in behind the camera to direct the film YVES SAINT LAURENT (2014), IRIS (2016), the TV drama series VERSAILLES (2015) for Canal Plus, and more recently the docuseries ROOM 2806: THE ACCUSATION/L’AFFAIRE DSK (2020) for Netflix.

Based in Los Angeles, he has now alternated between acting and directing.