Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

778 • ODOUL, DAMIEN
2000 Princes et Princesses (animation; also screenwriter,
dialogist, production designer)
2005 Kirikou et les Bêtes sauvages (animation; codirector
with Bénédicte Galup; also coscreenwriter,
co-dialogist, lyricist, producer)
2006 Azur et Asmar (animation; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
ODOUL, DAMIEN (March 15, 1968, Le Puy, Haute-
Loire, France–)
A self-taught man, he wrote his fi rst poem at age
thirteen, started playing onstage at age fi fteen, and
directed his fi rst short at age twenty. He is also a
video artist and a photographer. His poetry was published
(Faux Haïku d’un Occidental pas très Orthodoxe,
Lucien Souny, 2007; Les Poèmes du Milieu, Editions
Lume, 2008).
Filmography
1988 La Douce (short; also screenwriter)
1990 A l’Ouest de l’Orient (short; also screenwriter)
1994 Tob (Tête d’Oeuf Bouilli) (short; also screenwriter;
shot in 1991–1994)
1995 Elegeia (short; also screenwriter; unreleased)
2000 Magik (short; also screenwriter)
Sans Monde (short; also screenwriter)
2003 Réminiscences (short; also screenwriter, producer,
camera operator)
Les Barbots (short; also screenwriter, actor,
producer, production designer; shot in
1995–2003)
Le Souffl e / UK and USA: Deep Breath (also
screenwriter, dialogist, actor, camera operator)
Errance (also co-screenwriter, actor, camera
operator)
2004 En attendant le Déluge (also screenwriter,
actor, producer, camera operator, production
designer, cinematographer, costume designer)
Morasseix (originally shot for TV in 1992; also
co-screenwriter, actor)
2007 L’Histoire de Richard O (also screenwriter, dialogist,
actor)
ODOUTAN, JEAN (December 27, 1965, Cotonou,
Benin–)
Having settled in a Parisian suburb in 1980, he was
an actor from 1983 to 1995 and assistant to director
Pierre Schoendoerffer (1991 Dien-Bien-Phû). He man-
aged two production fi lm companies, one in France
(45rdlc) and the other in Benin (Tabou-Tabac Films).
He is the organizer of the International Film Festival
of Ouidah, Benin.
Filmography
1992 Kalamazo—La Passion du Foot (Super-16-mm
short; also screenwriter, dialogist, delegate
producer, actor; Benin)
1993 Tanti-Cotonou—Mama Benz (Super-16-mm
short; also screenwriter, delegate producer;
Benin)
Meli-Melo au Squatt-Place (Super-16-mm short;
also screenwriter, delegate producer; Benin)
Palabres d’Antilopes incommensurables et de
Zébus katangais au Pied du HLM (Super-16-mm
short; also screenwriter, dialogist, delegate
producer, actor; Benin)
1994 Le Nègre distingué (video short; also screenwriter,
dialogist, delegate producer, actor;
Benin)
1998 Le Réalisateur nègre (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist, delegate producer, actor; Benin)
2000 Barbecue-Pejo (also screenwriter, delegate
producer, production designer, costume designer,
composer; France / Benin; shot in
1998–1999)
Djib (also screenwriter, dialogist, delegate producer,
production designer, costume designer,
actor, editor, composer; France / Benin)
2002 Mama Aloko (also screenwriter, dialogist, delegate
producer, actor, composer; France /
Benin; shot in 2000)
2004 La Valse des gros Derrières (also screenwriter,
dialogist, delegate producer, actor, composer;
France / Benin)
OLIVARES, ANTONIO and OLIVARES, KILLY
Antonio Olivares played a small part in Aki Kaurismäki’s
La Vie de Bohème / Boheemielämää / Vita da
Boheme / Behememas Liv / UK and USA: Bohemian Life
(France / Finland / Italy / Sweden, 1992) before working
as a second assistant director for Enrique Gabriel
(1993 Krapatchouk / Krapatchouk, al este del desden,
France / Belgium / Spain) and producing two fi lms directed
by Malik Chibane (1994 Hexagone; 1995 Douce
France). A former assistant director to Chibane (1995
Douce France; 1997 Nés quelque part), Killy Olivares
co-directed two movies with his brother Antonio.