Kim Chapiron (born 4 July 1980) is a French film director, screenwriter, and musician of Vietnamese descent.

Biography

Of Vietnamese origin by his mother, Chapiron is the son of graphic designer Christian Chapiron, better known as Kiki Picasso, and the brother of singer and stylist Mai Lan. In 1995, he created the collective "Kourtrajmé" with the director Romain Gavras. The same year, the two directors met for a science fiction short entitled ''Paradoxe Perdu''. They play the only two main characters. Chapiron filmed more than twenty short films mixing action and comedy (compiled in 2003 in the double DVD ''Seigneur ne leur pardonnez pas car ils savent ce qu'ils font''). February 2006 saw the release of Sheitan, Kim Chapiron's first feature film that won the closing screening of Midnight Madness at the 2005

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and was selected at various festivals, including the Festival international du film fantastique de Gérardmer, the

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and the

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. His second film Dog Pound produced by Partizan Films, shot in 2008, shows the daily life of three minors in a prison in

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, U.S. He won Best New Narrative Filmmaker 2010 at the Tribeca Film Festival. In August 2012, he began shooting his third feature film, ''

La Crème de la crème ''La Crème de la crème'' (also titled ''Smart Ass'') is a 2014 French comedy-drama film directed by Kim Chapiron. The film received three nominations at the 20th Lumière Awards, where Thomas Blumenthal and Jean-Baptiste Lafarge were nominate ...

''. The action takes place in a large French business school (close to HEC) and tells the adventures of three students who decide to set up a prostitution network within the school. On the day of the film's release, 1 April 2014 he declared in Canal+'s Grand Journal that he found streaming pornography "quite incredible". Alongside pornography, he recalled the existence of love that the younger generations must not forget. Pornography, sexuality and love are precisely three themes of ''La Crème de la crème''. In March 2017, he was a member of the jury for the fourth edition of the Rennes International Short Film Festival and also for the seventh Moon Festival. In June 2024, Chapiron signed a petition addressed to French President

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demanding France to officially recognize the

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Filmography

* '' Sheitan'' (2006) * ''

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'' (2010) * ''

'' (2014) * ''Guyane'' (2016–2017) TV 4 episodes

Personal life

Chapiron is the partner of actress and model

Ludivine Sagnier Ludivine Sagnier (born 3 July 1979) is a French actress, known to international audiences for the films ''Swimming Pool'' and ''Peter Pan'' (both 2003), and the Netflix series ''Lupin'' (2021–present). She has also appeared in the English-langua ...

, with whom he has two daughters.

References

External links

* 1980 births Living people Film directors from Paris French male screenwriters French screenwriters French people of Vietnamese descent {{France-film-director-stub