Our team

The French Association of the International Film Festival groups together the Festival de Cannes, the Marché du Film and the Cinéma de Demain. The permanent team of the Festival de Cannes totals about thirty people alongside a Committee tasked with viewing and selecting the films. This staff gradually grows throughout the year to reach around 700 during the event, and around 300 for the Marché du Film.

Festival de Cannes team

IRIS KNOBLOCH

President

THIERRY FRÉMAUX

General Delegate

FRANÇOIS DESROUSSEAUX

Secretary General

CHRISTIAN JEUNE

Director of Films Department - Deputy General Delegate

MARIE-CAROLINE BILLAULT

Personal Assistant of Iris Knobloch & Thierry Frémaux

STÉPHANIE LAMOME

Artistic Advisor of Films Department / Head of the Résidence du Festival

SAMUEL FAURE

Director of Official Sponsorship

LAURE CAZENEUVE

Jurys & External Affairs Chief Operating Officer

LAURENCE CHURLAUD

Protocol Director

BRUNO MUNOZ

Head of Short Films

CAMILLE HEBERT-BENAZET

Head of Short Film Corner | Rendez-vous Industry

VIRGINIE VIDAL

Technical Director

MICHEL MIRABELLA

Project Executive for Management

FABRICE ALLARD

Head of Accreditations

VINCA VAN EECKE

Head of Digital Communication

CAROLINE VAUTROT

Communications manager

AGNÈS LEROY

Head of Press

FRÉDÉRIC CASSOLY

Head of Audiovisual Press Department

ISABELLE MICHAUD

Chief Accountant

OLIVIER BOUILLAND

Head of Informations Systems

Damien Brusset

Information Technology Manager

NICOLAS VAN HERRENTHALS

Operating Manager

CHRISTINE AIMÉ

Heritage Department Manager

SABINE GUERRISI

Accommodation Manager

NADINE FAMIEN

Front Desk - Administrative Assistant

Cinéma de demain team

DIMITRA KARYA

Artistic Director, La Cinef

CLARISSE ROBILLARD

Film Liaison Officer, La Cinef

FRÉDÉRIC BENS-BEAUSSIER

Résidence du Festival Coordinator

STÉPHANE LETELLIER-RAMPON

Head of Caméra d'Or

Marché du Film team

GUILLAUME ESMIOL

Executive Director

MICHÈLE WATERHOUSE

Administrative Director

MAUD AMSON

Sales & Operations Director

ALICE KHAROUBI

Director of Cinema Programming

JOSÉ CEPEDA

Head of Registration

ALEKSANDRA ZAKHARCHENKO

Head of Programs & Training

PIERRE-ALEXIS CHEVIT

Head of Cannes Docs

ANAHIT ORDIAN

Head of Conferences

Jim Le

Head of Communication

CORINNE LEVANNIER-GUITARD

Clients Accountant

Selection Committee

VIRGINIE APIOU

After studying Modern Literature at la Sorbonne, Virginie Apiou became a journalist for the written press. She also directs TV documentaries about Cinema (CANAL+, Warner, TCM for: Hitchcock — La Mort aux trousses or Hitchcock — Le crime était presque parfait, Les Acteurs-Réalisateurs, etc.) as well as reports for ARTE (Max Ophüls, Gabin-Renoir, Abel Gance, David Cronenberg, Abbas Kiarostami and Lars von Trier).

PAUL GRANDSARD

Paul Grandsard, of French-American descent, worked as a translator before directing six short films between 1987 and 2006. In 1996, he became a programmer for the Premiers Plans festival in Angers before joining the Festival de Cannes in 1999. Since 2010, he has been a professional photographer, specialising in portrait and architectural photography.

LAURENT JACOB

After studying Medicine briefly, Laurent Jacob became a trainee director and then second assistant to Claude Lelouch, Claude Sautet, Nadine Trintignant, Laurent Heynemann and Jean-Jacques Annaud. He then made montage films about history of Cinema for the Festival de Cannes (Le Cinéma dans les yeux, Liberté, two series of Préludes). He was in charge of the Cinéfondation selection from 1998 to 2009.

STÉPHANIE LAMOME

After completing a literature foundation course (also known as Khâgne), Stéphanie Lamome, from 1997 to 2015, worked as a journalist, reporter, critic, head of department and then deputy editor-in-chief of Première magazine. She was an on-air programmer for Radio Festival, the official radio of the Festival de Cannes, between 2017 and 2019. In 2019, she was appointed Artistic Advisor of the Film Department, working alongside Thierry Frémaux and Christian Jeune.

ÉRIC LIBIOT

From 1986 to 2000, Éric Libiot was a radio host (Radio Beur), TV journalist (“Ensemble aujourd'hui”), freelance print journalist (7 à Paris, Marianne, Paris Match, Max, L'autre journal), reporter and deputy editor-in-chief of Première. In 2000, he became deputy editor-in-chief of Arts and Entertainment at L'Express magazine and Culture editor-in-chief in 2016. That same year, he also became a columnist at France Inter (“Grand bien vous fasse” by Ali Rebeihi). In September 2019, he left L’Express. Today, Éric Libiot works for Lire and Astérios Spectacles while still a contributor at France Inter. He is currently writing a book on Clint Eastwood.

LUCIEN LOGETTE

Holding a PHD in comparative literature, Lucien Logette was the winner of the 2018 Prix Bernard-Chardère. Co-editor of the Larousse mondial du cinéma (2011) and the Dictionnaire mondial des mouvements artistiques et littéraires 1870-2010 (2012), film columnist for La Quinzaine littéraire (1993-2015) and staff writer at 1895, Revue d’histoire du Cinéma, Lucien Logette has been editor-in-chief of the monthly Jeune Cinéma since 1990.

JOHANNA NAHON

Script doctor and producer, Johanna Nahon began working in production under Charles Gillibert in 2015. She then joined the film production and international sales company Celluloid Dreams, where she headed up the purchasing department from 2016 to 2018. In 2019, she created a development fund and a production company and worked on several projects as a consultant.

GUILLEMETTE ODICI

Journalist, critic and head of the Cinema department at Télérama, Guillemette Odicino produces the summer show “On s'fait des films” at France Inter, where she is also a Culture and Cinema columnist. She regularly contributes to the programme “Le Cercle”, broadcast on CANAL+ and CANAL+ Cinéma. Co-author of Toscan, papa et moi published by Editions de la Martinière and editor-in-chief of several special editions on Marilyn Monroe, Louis de Funès and animated films.
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