Jean-Daniel Simon (30 November 1942 – 3 February 2021)Disparition de Jean-Daniel Simon, cofondateur de la SRF et de la Quinzaine
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film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

and actor. He directed eight films between 1968 and 1985. In 1975 he was a member of the jury at the

9th Moscow International Film Festival The 9th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 10 to 23 July 1975. The Golden Prizes were awarded to the Polish film '' The Promised Land'' directed by Andrzej Wajda, the Soviet-Japanese film '' Dersu Uzala'' directed by Akira Kurosawa ...

Selected filmography

* '' Vice and Virtue'' (1963) * '' Love at Sea'' (1964) * '' Adélaïde'' (1968) * ''

Camp de Thiaroye ''Camp de Thiaroye'' (; also known as ''The Camp at Thiaroye'') is a 1988 Cinema of Senegal, Senegalese War film, war-drama film written and directed by Ousmane Sembène and Thierno Faty Sow. The film entered the competition at the 45th Venice Int ...

'' (1988)

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* 1942 births 2021 deaths French film directors French male screenwriters French screenwriters {{France-film-director-stub