Cheminal, Dominique

(June 7, 1940, Joigny, Yonne, France - )

   He started to study architecture in Strasbourg before enrolling at the Paris-based Vaugirard film school. From 1964 to 1969, he shot several shorts and medium-lengths in Africa and Madagascar for Les Actualités Françaises and the Consortium Audiovisuel Inter­national. Having returned to France, he was second assistant director (1974 L'Ironie du Sort, Edouard Mo-linaro) and then first assistant director (1976 Noirs et Blancs en Couleur / La Victoire en chantant / Sehnsucht nach Afrika / USA: Black and White in Color, Jean-Jacques Annaud, France / West Germany / Switzerland / Ivory Coast; 1979 Coup de Tête / UK and USA: Hothead, Jean-Jacques Annaud; Nous maigrirons ensemble, Michel Vocoret; 1981 La Guerre du Feu / Quest for Fire, Jean-Jacques Annaud, France / Canada). By 1980, he began directing commercials (more than 200). He filmed two Jean-Jacques Annaud making-of movies (2004 Deux Frères, la grande Aventure; 2007 Minor, un drôle de Film).

 Filmography

1968 ◘ Le Voyage africain (documentary)

1971 ◘ Paris-Le Havre (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

1972 ◘ La Seine à boire (documentary)

        ◘ Pierre (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

        ◘ L'Ennemi invisible (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

1984 ◘ La Femme Ivoire (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, associate producer; shot in 1982)

1993 ◘ Une Journée chez ma Mère

 Television Filmography

1997 ◘ La Femme du Pêcheur 2000 Un Morceau de Soleil