Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

216 • CHIESA, CHRISTOPHE
Filmography
1985 Morphée (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1986 L’Amour en marche (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1989 Brasero (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1990 Le Pinceau à Lèvres (short; also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
2001 Barnie et ses petites Contrariétés (also coscreenwriter;
shot in 2000)
2006 Hell (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
CHIESA, CHRISTOPHE (May 13, 1970, Marseille,
Bouches-du-Rhône, France–)
After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in cinema
from the University Lyon II Lumière, he completed
his studies at the Fémis. From age eighteen to
twenty-fi ve, he shot about fi fteen shorts. His 16-mm
medium-length Mô earned him the great prize of the
Munich International Festival of fi lm schools in 1997.
He co-founded with friends Autrement Cinéma, an
association that releases and promotes experimental
fi lms and art videos. From the end of his studies to
2004, he ran with Rémi Mazet a fi lm production company
they created (Fish and Cheap’s).
Filmography
1997 Mô (medium-length)
2002 Comme il vient (also co-screenwriter, codialogist;
shot in 2000)
CHIFFRE, YVAN (March 3, 1936, Rousson, Gard,
France–)
A former dancer with Georges Reich’s Ballets Ho,
he became one of the busiest stuntmen of French
cinema and played small parts in most of the swashbuckler
and spy movies of the 1960s and 1970s
(from 1961 Le Miracle des Loups / La congiura dei
potenti / USA: Blood on His Sword / The Miracle of
the Wolves, André Hunebelle, France / Italy, to 1975
Zorro, Duccio Tessari, Italy / France). In 1984, he
did his last contribution as stunt coordinator for
a director other than himself (Cheech & Chong’s
The Corsican Brothers, Tommy Chong, USA). Besides
the 400 fi lms and TV movies he collaborated on, he
directed and performed many medieval shows since
the 1970s with a group of stuntmen including Alain
Grellier and Lionel Vitrant. He authored an autobiography
(1992 A l’Ombre des Stars—30 Ans d’action
dans le Cinéma, Denoël).
Filmography
1975 Bons Baisers de Hong-Kong (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
1984 Le Fou du Roi (also screenwriter, dialogist, actor)
1985 L’Homme de l’Histoire (short)
1989 President’s Target / The Man from Nowhere (also
co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, co-producer;
France / Portugal)
CHOISY, DOMINIQUE (August 28, 1959, Poitiers,
Vienne, France–)
He was raised at Aix-Les-Bains. After completing
his studies at Haddon Township High School, New
Jersey, USA, and then at the Institut Supérieur de
Gestion (Superior Management Institute), he entered
the IDHEC. Having graduated in 1986, he became
chief editor for TV programs (Faut pas rêver, Thalassa,
Tendances . . .).
Filmography
1987 Les Cafards (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1988 L’Albarine (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1990 Et Z comme Mouette (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1992 Figure humaine (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
2000 Confort moderne (also screenwriter, dialogist)
CHOMET, SYLVAIN (November 10, 1963, Maison
Laffi tte, Yvelines, France–)
He intended to become a humoristic drawer in
his childhood. After spending three years at the
Angoulême comic strip school and graduating with
a diploma, he went to England, where he joined an
animation studio specializing in commercials. Then he
was a screenwriter for comic strip drawers Nicolas
de Crécy (“Léon la Came”) and Hubert Chevillard
(“Le Pont dans la Vase”). His fi rst animated fi lm cost
him ten years of work.
Filmography
1998 La Vieille Dame et les Pigeons (animated short;
also screenwriter, animation director)
2003 Les Triplettes de Belleville / UK: Belleville Rendez-
Vous / USA: The Triplets of Belleville (animation;
also screenwriter, animation director; France
/ Belgium / Canada / UK)