Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

(documentary, Jean-Claude Jean) and began fi lming
documentaries in the 1980s.
Filmography
2003 Le Piroguier blanc (documentary; unreleased)
Television Filmography
1991 Comores, les Enfants du Volcan (video documentary)
2001 Responsables (documentary)
2002 Les Veilleurs (documentary)
Passerelles (documentary)
La Distance intime (documentary)
GHEERBRANT, DENIS (1948, Paris, France–)
After his literary studies, he attended the IDHEC
(directing and photo department). He taught at
the University of Paris I and Paris VIII (1972–1977).
He worked as an assistant camera operator (1976
Daguerréotypes / Daguerreotypen—Leute aus meiner
Strasse, documentary, Agnès Varda, France / West
Germany), camera operator (1982 Salut . . . j’arrive /
Sehnsucht nach dem Rosaroten Chaos, Gérard Poteau,
France / West Germany), and cinematographer (1980
Histoires d’Adrien, Jean-Pierre Denis; 1981 L’Heure
exquise, documentary, René Allio; 1983 La Palombière,
also co-screenwriter, Jean-Pierre Denis; Faux-fuyants
/ US video: Subterfuge, Alain Bergala, Jean-Pierre Limosin;
1986 Nuit de Chine, short, Catherine Corsini;
Nightmare Weekend, Henri Sala, UK / USA / France;
Manège, short, Jacques Nolot; 1988 Les Camps du
Silence, documentary, Bernard Mangiante; 1990 Je t’ai
dans la Peau / Ich bin dir verfallen, Jean-Pierre Thorn,
France / West Germany).
Filmography
1978 Printemps de Square (documentary)
1984 Amour Rue de Lappe (short)
1986 Question d’Identité (short)
1991 Et la Vie (documentary; also sound)
1992 Une Fête foraine (documentary)
1995 La Vie est immense et pleine de Danger (documentary;
also screenwriter, cinematographer,
sound)
1999 Grands comme le Monde (documentary; also
screenwriter)
2002 Le Voyage à la Mer (documentary; also screenwriter,
sound, narrator)
2005 Après un Voyage dans le Rwanda (documentary;
also cinematographer, editor, sound)
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GHORAB-VOLTA, ZAÏDA (April 19, 1966, Algeria–)
She entered fi lms as an actress (1993 Vizir et Vizirette,
short, Solveig Anspach; Les Histoires d’Amour fi nissent
mal en général, Anne Fontaine; 1994 Pas de Perdant,
short, Franck Saint-Cast; 1996 Les Années Lycée: Sa Vie
à elle, TV, Romain Goupil; 2001 Taulignan, short, Gilles
Volta; 2003 Marie et le Loup, Eve Heinrich) and then
worked as a screenwriter, key makeup artist, casting
director (2004 Des Enfants qui s’aiment, Gilles Volta),
production coordinator (1999 La Voleuse de Saint-Lubin,
short, Claire Devers; Les Terres froides, TV, Sébastien
Lifshitz), and production manager (2000 Nadia et
les Hippopotames, Dominique Cabrera, shot in 1998;
Tontaine et Tonton, TV, Tonie Marshall).
Filmography
1996 Souviens-toi de moi (short; also screenwriter,
actor)
1997 On s’aime, on se donne la Main (short; also
screenwriter)
Chantal! (short; co-director with Marie Vermillard;
also co-screenwriter, actor)
1998 Laisse un peu d’Amour (short; also screenwriter)
Dounia (short; also screenwriter, actor)
2001 Jeunesse dorée (also screenwriter)
2005 Gwladys (also screenwriter, actor)
GIACOBETTI, FRANCIS (François Giacobetti /
July 1, 1939, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France–)
An assistant photographer and then a photographer
for the magazines Paris Match and Télé 7 Jours (1960–
1964), he co-founded Lui (a kind of French version of
Playboy magazine) in 1963.
Filmography
1975 Emmanuelle 2 / Emmanuelle l’Antivierge / USA:
Emmanuelle II / Emmanuelle: The Joys of a
Woman (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
GIANNOLI, XAVIER (March 7, 1972, Paris,
France–)
Having graduated with a master’s degree in modern
literature from the Sorbonne, he was only seventeen
years old when he shot Quelqu’un vous regarde, a brief
remaking of Philippe Setbon’s Mr. Frost (USA / France,
1989). His short L’Interview won a Golden Palm at
the Cannes Film Festival in 1998 and a César in 1999.