TEAM
Meet the artists who brought the film's characters to life !
Alain Ughetto
Author - Director
Alain Ughetto inherited from his father and grandfather a pronounced taste for tinkering that he injects into his cinema through volume animation. In 1985, Alain Resnais awarded him the César for best animated short film for La Boule. In 2013, he directed Jasmine , in which his love story is played out in the turmoil of Tehran in the late 1970s. After a long process of maturation, he returns today to shape the story of his grandfather and, through it, that of many Italian immigrants.
Camille Rossi
Assistant director
Graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Valence, Camille Rossi got trained in the different steps and techniques of making an animation film. She worked as an animator on the feature film Wardi by Mats Grorud, on the short films Celui qui a deux âmes by Fabrice Luang-Vija (César 2017) and Mille-pattes et crapaud by Anna Khmelevskaya. After working on the storyboard of No Dogs or Italians Allowed, she naturally became the assistant director on the shoot.
Anne Paschetta
Co-author
Anne Paschetta has been working with numerous directors for the past ten years, and has co-written six feature-length documentaries released in theaters ( La vierge, les coptes et moi by Namir Abdel Messeeh, Salto mortale by Guillaume Kozakieviecz, À ciel ouvert by Mariana Otero, Une jeunesse allemande by Jean-Gabriel Périot, etc.). She also writes for television ( Lumières sur la ville by Agnès Bovet – Arte, Je ne veux pas être paysan by Tangui Le Cras – France 3 régions / L’heure D). Since 2010, she advises the writing of documentary projects at Vidéadoc and leads training sessions and writing residencies for Ty Films, Ciclic and Lussas.
Alexis Galmot
Co-author
Alexis Galmot is an author, screenwriter and translator. Since 1990, he has participated in the writing of numerous feature film scripts for the cinema. All these years have seen the birth of a successful collaboration with Cédric Klapisch (Riens du tout; Le Péril jeune; Peut-être; Ni pour ni contre (bien au contraire); Et on tuera tous les affreux ).
Ariane Ascaride
Actress
Ariane Ascaride is a French actress. She studied at the Conservatoire of Marseille, at the University of Aix-en-Provence in sociology and finally at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris, where she attended the classes of Antoine Vitez and Marcel Bluwal. After meeting the filmmaker Robert Guédiguian at university, she made eighteen films with him and won the César for best actress for her role in Marius and Jeannette in 1998.
Gérard Meylan
Actor
Gérard Meylan was born in l’Estaque, a working-class district of Marseille, where he met Robert Guédiguian at a young age. He will appear in all the films of his friend, alongside Ariane Ascaride. He met the big public for his main role in Marius and Jeannette. The actor made a few forays outside the “Guédiguian family” with other filmmakers such as René Allio or Claire Denis.
Fabien Drouet
Head operator
Fabien Drouet is an author, director and director of photography in animation since 1999. Stop motion is his specialty. He is notably the author and director of Ponpon le Chien, and has worked as a director of photography on numerous productions in animated volume. In 2018, he signed the image of Mémorable by Bruno Collet, three times awarded at the Annecy Festival 2019 and nominated for the Oscar for animated short film in 2020.
Jean-Marc Ogier
Head decorator
Trained in sculpture at the Beaux-Arts of Rennes, Jean-Marc Ogier then opened himself to animation and the stop-motion technique. He has been a set designer for many years and has notably signed the sets of the multi-awarded films Oh Willy… and Ce Magnifique Gâteau ! by Emma de Swaef and Marc James Roels. The latter was selected in Cannes for la Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in 2018 and nominated for the César for best animated film in 2020. We could also mention Raymonde ou l’évasion verticale, nominated for the César for best animated film in 2019 or the series Dimitri.
Marjolaine Parot
Head animator
Marjolaine Parot is an animator specialized in stop motion for more than 20 years, internationally recognized by her work on feature films such as Frankenweenie by Tim Burton, My Life as a Courgette by Claude Barras and Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs… Her career began at the studio Folimage in the Drôme region of France, working on TV series and short films for authors.
Nicolas Flory
Artistic director
Graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Valence, Nicolas Flory is a producer and artistic director of the company Foliascope, as well as an art teacher. He is co-author of the concepts of the animated series Bunny Maloney, Bubble Gubs and Méga Champions. He has a particular interest in digital media and the relationship between animated film, video games and interactive design.
