Nion, Didier

(January 21, 1959, Le Petit-Quevilly, Seine-Maritime, France - )

   He directed his first amateur short at age seventeen (Mais si) before working as a cabinetmaker in Swit­zerland. He entered films as a grip (1983 Garçon!, Claude Sautet; 1984 Subway, Luc Besson; 1986 Esther, Amos Gitai; 1988 Tabataba, Raymond Rajaonarivelo, France / Madagascar).While filming his own movies, he collaborated on several movies as an assistant camera operator (1995 Les Semeurs de Peste, Chris­tian Merlhiot) and cinematographer (1992 L'Echappée belle, short, Antoine Vaton; 1993 Le Joueur (Same Player Shoots Again), short; Les Roses de Staline, short, Antoine Voituriez; Léon (Portrait), documentary, short, Marie de Laubier; 1994 Le Temps des Cerises, short, Lionel Boncompagni; 1997 Les Moyens du Bord, short, An­toine Vaton; 1998 Fils de Personne, short, Niels Dubost; Ulysse au Pays des Merveilles, short, Charles Bouchery; 1999 Fleshback, short, Fred Noël; 2002 Toujours tout droit, Mario Caniglia).

 Filmography

1998 ◘ Clean Time—Le Soleil en plein Hiver (documentary; short; also cinematographer)

2000 ◘ Juillet

2003 ◘ Dix-sept Ans (also screenwriter, cinematographer)