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Arnaud Gourmelen
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Born in Paris, Arnaud Gourmelen studied History before working for film festivals in programming departments (Brest, Biarritz, Pantin). In 2005, he became Head of programming of Angers Film festival -Premiers Plans- where he kept on discovering new filmmakers from all over Europe with the competition dedicated to student films, short films and debut long feature. Besides, he curated of a lot of retrospectives dedicated to Kaurismäki, Pasolini, Schroeder, Moretti, Melville, Varda, Zviaguintsev, Boorman… From 2011 to 2018, he worked as a programmer for the Directors Fortnight (Cannes film festival), and developed since 2006 the Angers Workshop. He works also as an international consultant and program delegate for several international festivals (Karlovy Vary, Brussels, Zurich).
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