Laurent Tirard(1967-2024)

Born in France in 1967, Laurent Tirard went to the US, to New York University, to study filmmaking and then became a script reader for the American company Warner Brothers.He returned to France to do journalism for the magazine Studio, during which time he interviewed 20 notable filmmakers which resulted in a book published in 2002. After leaving the magazine in 1997, Tirard wrote scripts, directed shorts, and then crossed over into feature length directing.