Christian Volckman

Christian Volckman is a french film director, author, and painter. He is a graduate of Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Graphiques in Paris. He is mainly known for his motion capture animation feature film Renaissance, with the voices of Daniel Craig, Romola Garai, Jonathan Pryce, and Ian Holm, which won the Feature Film Award at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 2006 and Best Feature Film at the 5th Festival of European Animated Feature Films and TV Specials in 2007. The film, distributed by Miramax. His other film work includes music videos and two shorts, Le cobaye, which received a Prix du Jury at Annecy in 1995, and Maaz, which has been shown at nearly 100 festivals and won 30 prizes, including two for sound. Volckman has directed several music videos, including "Miss Chang" and " Once upon a Time" for the group Chinese Man. "Paris sera toujours Paris", "Sous le ciel de Paris" et "Champs Elysées" for the singer ZAZ. "Requiem" for Alma, the song represents France at the Eurovision 2017. He is scheduled to direct The Room, with Olga Kurylenko. He is developing two other films: Rapaces ("Predator") produced by Oriflammes Films, and The Kid produced by Bidibul productions and Superprod. While pursuing his film career, Christian Volckman is also developing his personal work as a painter. His work has been shown all around the world.