BIO/FILMOGRAPHY
Jocelyn Quivrin’s biography
Born February 14 th 1979, Jocelyn’s film debut came at the age of 13, starring as the Duke of Anjou in Roger Planchon's Louis, enfant roi in 1992. Throughout his career he successfully shifted from avant-garde period pieces (Les amours d’Astrée et de Céladon), to intense Hollywood political dramas (Syriana), to comedies ranging from the smart social comedy (Notre univers impitoyable) to the wild consumerist satire (Jan Kounen’s 99 francs, opposite Jean Dujardin), earning rave reviews as well as the Prix Lumière for Most Promising Male Newcomer, the Patrick Dewaere prize and a César nomination for Most Promising Actor in 2008. All the while, he successfully built a solid reputation on the stage, playing Lord Darlington in François-Louis Tilly’s adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan and appearing at the 2008 Avignon Festival in Redjep’s Mitrovitsa’s Do you love me?
Quivrin took as stab at both writing and directing in 2006, with his short and self-explicit feature, Acteur. Last year, he shared the screen with Sophie Marceau in the popular film LOL and went on to star a year later in Jean-Claude Brisseau’s À l'aventure as well as Eric Lavaine’s Incognito. On November 15 th 2009, at the age of thirty, Quivrin, a lifelong amateur of sports cars, died in a car accident. His final film, Ensemble, c'est trop by Léa Fazer, is having its North American premiere at this year’s FFC festival.
Selective filmography
Louis, the Child King (1993)
Clément (2001)
Syriana (2005)
99 Francs (2007)
Incognito (2008)
LOL - Laughing Out Loud (2009)
Ensemble, c'est trop(2010)
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Léa Fazer’s biography
Born in Geneva in 1965, Léa Fazer studied literature before leaving her home country to pursue dramatic studies at the Théâtre National de Strasbourg. She eventually enrolled for a year in cinema studies at the University of Paris. She subsequently began to write plays (among which Porte De Montreuil, Les Fils De Noë and Pourvu Que Ça Dure) for the stage, cabarets and the revue musicale, all of which have been produced. She has written for both French and Swiss television networks. In 2004, she wrote and directed her first feature Bienvenue en Suisse, an astutely observed comedy, starring her compatriot Vincent Pérez, which delicately underlines the oft-ignored but no less significant culture clash between the French and the Swiss. In 2008, she dramatized the professional and personal conflicts of interest dividing a power couple played by Alice Taglioni and Jocelyn Quivrin in Notre univers impitoyable. With Ensemble c'est trop, her third feature, she continues to explore the challenge and costs of maintaining a harmonious life in the face of modern complexities.
Léa Fazer’s Filmography
Ensemble c'est trop (2010)
Bientôt j'arrête (2008)
Notre univers impitoyable (2008)
Bienvenue en Suisse (2004)
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