Magnat, Julien

(February 8, 1973, Aubenas, Ardèche, France - )

   A movie buff since his teenage years, he decided to be a director at age seventeen. Having won a full scholarship, he then opted to study in the UK for seven years, gaining his international baccalaureate from Atlantic College in Wales and a degree in film from Reading University, England. During this time, he was also a film critic for the cable station Tel-ecential. In 1996, he returned to France and joined the most famous national film school, the Fémis. He regularly collaborated on the French movie magazine L'Ecran Fantastique and co-wrote some episodes of an animated TV series (Skyland, France / Canada, 2006; Valérian et Laureline, France / Japan, 2007).

 Filmography

        ◘ Teddy's Eye (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Shalt Thou Shew Wonders to the Dead? (short; also producer, screenwriter, editor)

        ◘ The Thirteenth Returns (short; also screenwriter; visual effects)

        ◘ Bois-moi (documentary; short; also screenwriter, producer)

        ◘ The Loveliest Night (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Varnish Dreams (short; also screenwriter, vi­sual effects supervisor)

        ◘ Vena cava (short; also screenwriter, actor)

        ◘ Les Nouvelles Aventures de Chastity Blade / The All-New Adventures of Chastity Blade (short; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

2002 ◘ Bloody Mallory (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)