Guillaume Tauveron

Guillaume Tauveron was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Although he had started to write novels and several stories by the age of 15, it was during watching the credit titles at the beginning ofTim Burton 's Mars Attacks! (1996) that he realized he also wanted to show his personal inner world on screen. Cinema gave him the opportunity to keep telling stories not only with the script, but also with images, lights, sounds and music. A single storyline explained with different angles. By 2004, He started making short films with an amateur video camera. That same year, he met the independent japanese filmmaker 'Hiroshi Toda (II)' at a French Asian movie festival, in Lyon. They soon became close friends and met several times in France and Japan. In 2006, the both of them have co-written and co-directed a Feature Film together: 'Sakura no kage' (Shadow of the cherry Blossom), Guillaume Tauveron playing the main character. Film noir about a french Hitman, going to Japan to execute a japanese woman. The execution contract specifies he has to kill her in front of her father, but they fall in love while travelling together on the way to meet him. Jean-Pierre Melville being Hiroshi Toda's main influence, the movie's amosphere is kind of "cold" and the characters have blank expressions and show no emotions. After that, Guillaume directed eight short films: "Green Tale, Grey Tale, Blue Tale, Red Tale, Yellow Tale, Black Tale, Pink Tale, and White Tale", to experiment what he learned with Hiroshi Toda, find his own style and his perticular universe. In 2007 Hiroshi Toda and Guillaume Tauveron were set to work on another Feature Film shot in Japan: A ghost thriller love story. Being an independant film, they encountered different problems and the project was cancelled. From that moment, Guillaume Tauveron began directing several videos for music bands, making independent short films on the side, still going to Japan once a year to act in Hiroshi Toda's movies ("East Planet", "Phantom of the town", "Furansu kara kita otoko"). While there, he ceased the opportunity to work on his own projects, like Hashi (The bridge), a short movie shot in France and Japan with a french and a japanese actress in the leading roles. In 2011, after a year and a half of working on his current project: The Blood, he managed to realize the main ambitious movie he had in mind - a Film with a full set of Japanese cast and crew in Tokyo. In spite of the March 11th Tragic events in Japan, he left for Tokyo towards the end of March to start preparing and directing his film. What was first set up to be a medium length film, shortly became a one hour long movie. So in September he went back to Japan, in order to shoot additional scenes and to make a 100 minutes long feature film.