Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani

Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani are a married couple of French filmmakers living in Brussels. They co-direct all of their films.

Biography

Hélène Cattet, born in 1976 in Paris, and Bruno Forzani, born in the same year in Menton, met in Brussels in 1997. After several short films, Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani made Amer in 2009, a postmodern homage to giallo which received international distinguishment.

Bruno Forzani is also, since 2004, a programmer and presenter of French sessions of Cinéma Bis at Cinematek.

In 2014, Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet received 500,000 euros^[1] for production aid in the Communauté française Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles for the project Laissez bronzer les cadavres, a film noir, adapting a novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette.^[2]

Filmography

Short films

• 2001 : Catharsis
• 2002 : Chambre jaune
• 2003 : La Fin de notre amour
• 2004 : L'Étrange Portrait de la dame en jaune
• 2006 : Santos Palace
• 2012 : The ABCs of Death - segment O is for Orgasm

Full-length films

• 2010 : Amer
• 2013 : L'Étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps

References

1. http://www.audiovisuel.cfwb.be/index.php?eID=tx_nawsecuredl&u=0&file=fileadmin/sites/avm/upload/avm_super_editor/avm_editor/Presse/Bilan_2014_-_2eme_session.pdf&hash=afdf7b4b7afaf77ceb76df5ba28bbb29d20a2d89 Commission de Sélection des Films ; 2^e session 2014
2. 47 projets de films aidés en Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Culture.be ; 22 septembre 2014

External links

• Hélène Cattet at the Internet Movie Database
• Bruno Forzani at the Internet Movie Database