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• Short Film Sessions :

- Isabelle Fauvel :
After six years spent at Flach Films, where she has produced and co-produced several features including Leolo by Jean-Claude Lauzon (Cannes 1992 official competition), Isabelle Fauvel created Initiative Film in 1993. The scouting and nurturing of talents is her key activity, fostering connections and collaborations between screenwriters, directors, producers,  scouting for Labs and tutoring in many workshops.
Isabelle Fauvel has been working as a development consultant for more than 35 years, always seeking an original and unique way of working, and has accompanied numerous French and international feature films.

- Hakim Mao :

After having completed a « BTS » in editing and postproduction, and a masters degree in film writing and directing at the Louis Lumière National Film School in Paris where he wrote and directed several short films, hakim comes from a technical background in film making.

​After interning on several feature film shootings as an assistant director, he decides to dedicate himself to writing, first by developing his first feature film script at the Méditalents trans-Mediterranean writing workshop fore over a year, before starting interning at Initiative Film.

Now a project manager, he alternates between the Development Department and the international training programs in which Initiative Film is involved.

• UP: Up-and-Coming Producers:

  - Hédi Zardi :
  Hédi Zardi founded the international sales company Luxbox in 2015 with Fiorella Moretti. After eight years of international sales and co-productions, he is now heading the Atlas Workshops, the talent development industry program initiated in 2018 by the Marrakech International Film Festival.