Olivier Ducastel ( French: Olivier Ducastel ; born February 23 , 1962 , Lyon , France ) is a French film director and screenwriter. Works in collaboration with his partner Jacques Martino.
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| Date of Birth | February 23, 1962 (57 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Lyon , France |
| Citizenship |  France |
| Profession | filmmaker screenwriter |
| Career | 1964 - n. at. |
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Biography
Olivier Ducastel was born on February 23, 1962 in Lyon , France. After spending his teenage years in Rouen , he moved to Paris to study theater and cinema at the University of New Sorbonne. In 1988, as a director, Ducastel directed the short musical comedy Desire to Pleasure ( French: Le Goût de plaire ). In the same year, he was an assistant in the last film of his mentor Jacques Demy “Three tickets for the twenty-sixth” ( French Trois places pour le 26 ). In the early 1990s, he worked as a sound engineer for several films.
In 1995, Olivier Ducastel met Jacques Martino , which was the beginning of their personal relationship and creative cooperation. The first joint work of Ducastel and Martino was the tape " Jeanne and the Great Guy " - a musical comedy on HIV / AIDS , inspired by the films of Jacques Demy with the participation of Virginia Ledoyen and the son Demi Mathieu in the lead roles. The film opened the 48th Berlin International Film Festival of 1998 [1] .
Later, Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martino, as directors and screenwriters, work on films whose storylines are related to homosexual themes and, in particular, created the three-hour television project “ Born in 68 ” with the participation of Letizia Casta and Yannick Rainier [2] .
In 2016, Ducastel and Martino led the jury of the LGBT contest - the film " Queer Palm " of the 69th Cannes International Film Festival [3] .
Filmography
| Year | Title | original name | Producer | Screenwriter | |
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| 1989 | to / m | Desire to please | Le goût de plaire | Yes | Yes |
| 1998 | Jeanne and a great guy | Jeanne et le garçon formidable | Yes | Yes | |
| 2000 | The Adventures of Felix | Drôle de félix | Yes | Yes | |
| 2002 | My life on ice | Ma vraie vie à Rouen | Yes | Yes | |
| 2005 | Crustaceans and shells | Crustacés et coquillages | Yes | Yes | |
| 2008 | t / f | Born in 68th | Nés en 68 | Yes | Yes |
| 2010 | Family Tree | L'arbre et la forêt | Yes | Yes | |
| 2016 | Theo and Yugo in the same boat | Théo et Hugo dans le même bateau | Yes | Yes |
Notes
- ↑ Berlinale: 1998 Program . berlinale.de . Date of appeal April 15, 2016. (unavailable link)
- ↑ Biography of O. Ducastel on cinefil.com (fr.)
- ↑ Christophe Martet. Yagg exclusive: Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau chair the jury of the Queer Palm at Cannes . Yagg .
Links
- Ducastel, Olivier on the Internet Movie Database