Biography

Sylvain Pélissier is a French director and screenwriter born in France on May 29, 1979. Born to a Sicilian mother and a French father, Sylvain Pélissier was passionate about screenplays and cinema from an early age. He is influenced by genre cinema, from fantasy to science fiction, including horror and thrillers, a vast complex which will become his favorite field. After a 5-year voluntary commitment in the army, he prepared his retraining in the civilian world and discovered, thanks to a friend, his first video editing software, he was won over. Self-taught, he began to learn the basic techniques for editing his first amateur films. In 2009, he trained at Ateliers Image et Fils in Marseille and obtained his audiovisual professional training certificate. In 2010, he wrote and directed his first short film "Night Terror", selected in festivals and awarded the Grand Prix du Public for the short program "Add short Meaning" in Paris. In 2013 he wrote and directed his short pilot film "Backlash", a police thriller which will be screened at the Le Palace multiplex cinema in Martigues and received a very good reception from the public2. In 2015 he wrote and co-directed his short film "Verset Criminel" on the theme of schizophrenia immersed in a gangster film with the participation of actor Moussa Maskri and presented the Short Film Corner3 at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2016, he wrote and directed Lily of a fantastic genre, the subject of which deals with an essential social problem, the mistreatment of the elderly and people with reduced mobility. His short film Lily is presented for a first public screening at the Loho Auditorium. in Cannes and presented at the Cannes Film Festival, his short film was selected in 28 international festivals and won 4 jury prizes in Los Angeles and the IFFF Cinéfantasy Prize in Brazil and has been viewed more than 1,000,000 times on his channel . He produced his 23 independent films

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