Draft:Cyriac Auriol

Cyriac Auriol, born in 1966, is a french film producer..

Biographie

Graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Studies, he started his path in cinema as an intern with Daniel Toscan du Plantier. In 1992, he founded Les Films du Requin, and during the first three years, he produced about thirty short films, before his first feature film in 1995, Drancy Avenir, by Arnaud des Pallières. This film is a historical, poetic, and philosophical investigation into the traces of the extermination of Jews in Paris and its suburbs today.

En 1997 il initie un projet de rénovation du cinéma Le Louxor dont l'échec aboutira quelques années plus tard à la naissance de la Cinémathèque de Tanger.

Among his main films are:

The New Yorker(1996), by Benoît Graffin, first feature film shot in DV.
Jeanne et le Garçon formidable (1998), by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, a musical comedy competing at the Berlin Film Festival.
Le Café de la plage (2000), by Benoît Graffin, shot in Tangier, based on a short story by Mohammed Mrabet and Paul Bowles.
Royal Bonbon(2001), by Charles Najman, won the 2002 Jean-Vigo Prize.
Héros, by Bruno Merle (2007), which opened the International Critics' Week at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007.
Las Marimbas del Infierno(2010), by Julio Hernandez Cordon, a docu-fiction about the creation of a musical group combining Heavy Metal and marimbas, awarded 15 times at international festivals.

He also produces or coproduces numerous films by foreign directors, including the film by Cuban writer Joel Cano Obregón, 7 Dias 7 Noches, which won the Grand Prix at the 2003 Three Continents Festival, and the film by Tunisian director Nacer Khémir, Bab'Aziz / The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul, presented at Locarno Film Festival in 2005. He also worked on Ilusiones Ópticas by Chilean filmmaker Cristian Jimenez, and Agua Fría de Mar by Costa Rican director Paz Fabregas, which won the Grand Prix at the 2010 Rotterdam Film Festival. In 2016, he produced Zin n'aariyâ! / The Wedding Ring, the first feature film by Nigerien director Rahmatou Keïta.

At the same time, Cyriac Auriol developed a documentary career, notably with films by Iranian filmmaker Mitra Farahani, including Juste une femme, which won the Teddy Award for Best Documentary at the Berlinale in 2002, and Tabous (Zohreh & Manouchehr), a documentary about love and sexuality in Iran, also presented at the Berlinale in 2004. Both films, shot clandestinely, illustrate the dualities of Iranian society's approach to sexuality.

In 2015, he initiated a collaboration with artist Pierrick Sorin, whose optical theaters he now edits.

Cyriac Auriol, together with photographer Yto Barrada, is the co-founder of the Cinémathèque de Tanger in Morocco, which opened its doors in 2007.

Cyriac Auriol is a member of the European Producers Network (ACE) and a member of the European Film Academy.