CANNESERIES Season 03

C o m p e t i t i o n

Credits: © JB Lacroix

Producer & Screenwriter ⎮United States

Biography

Legendary Hollywood producer Gale Anne Hurd produced and co-wrote The Terminator, which was followed by Oscar-winners, The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and The Ghost and the Darkness. Additional credits include Armageddon, The Incredible Hulk, and Sundance Audience Award-winner The Waterdance, among many others.

Hurd is an Executive Producer of AMC’s The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, and the new World Beyond. A ‘Walking Dead’ feature film was recently announced, with Hurd serving as a Producer. She is a Consulting Producer on Talking Dead, and an EP on Amazon’s Lore and USA Network’s Falling Water.

Selective filmography

The Walking Dead (2010)
Fear The Walking Dead (2015)
Talking Dead (2015)
Falling Water (2016)
Lore (2018)

Credits: © Jeff Kravitz - Filmmagic for HBO

Creator, Director & Screenwriter ⎮Israel

Biography

Alongside directing and screenwriting, Tawfik Abu Wael teaches and lectures cinema at universities and art schools. He mentored Palestinian screenwriters and directors who made the BBC internet series Dandara (30 episodes), and was a creative consultant for the Israeli Cinema Funds.

Selective filmography

Thirst (2004)
Tanathur (2011)
Love Letter to Cinema  (2014)
Our Boys (2019)

Credits: © Shayne Gray

Musician & Composer ⎮ United States

Biography

Stewart Copeland has spent more than three decades at the forefront of contemporary music as a rock star and acclaimed film composer, as well as in the disparate worlds of opera, ballet, and chamber music.

Recruiting Sting and Andy Summers in 1977, Copeland is renowned as the founder of The Police, a band that became a defining force in rock music.

Copeland has been responsible for some of the film world's most innovative and ground-breaking scores. His numerous film scores include Oliver Stone's Wall Street, Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish and the Oscar-nominated Four Days in September. His work in television includes contributions to The Equalizer, Desperate Housewives and the Emmy-nominated series Dead Like Me. He also scored the blockbuster hit video game ‘Spyro’.

Selective filmography

Movies soundtracks

Rusty James (1983)
Wall Street (1987)
Conversations nocturnes (1988)
Highlander II – Le retour (1991)
Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)
Quatre jours en septembre (1997)

Series soundtracks

The Equalizer (1985)
Babylon 5 (Pilote) (1994)
Dead Like Me (2003-2005)
Desperate Housewives (2005)

Video game soundtracks

Spyro the Dragon (1998)
Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer (1999)
Spyro: Year of the Dragon (2000)
Spyro Reignited Trilogy (2018)

Credits: © Charlette Studio

Actress ⎮ France

Biography

After starting her acting career in the theatre, Camille Cottin enjoyed success on television on Canal+ with the leading role in Connasse, co-created by Éloïse Lang and Noémie Saglio. From 2015 till now, she played one of the main characters in the series Call my agent which was broadcast in France and worldwide thanks to Netflix. In   2019, she became the French Fleabag in the Canal+ adaptation of the popular British series directed by Jeanne Herry. She will soon be in season 3 of Killing Eve and in Stillwater, from Tom McCarthy, alongside Matt Damon.

Selective filmography

Ma meuf (2013)
Connasse (2013)
Call my agent (2015)
Calls (2017)
Mouche (2019)

Credits: © Wolf Marloh

Actor ⎮ United Kingdom, Rwanda

Biography

Twenty-seven-year-old British-Rwandan actor Ncuti Gatwa began his career on the stage; his work includes leading roles at The Globe and the Home Theatre in Manchester. He trained at the prestigious Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

In 2019, Ncuti joined the Netflix series, Sex Education, in which he plays the lovable and solar Eric Effiong, Otis' (Asa Butterfield) best friend. Among an eclectic cast of well-known actors and promising voices, he quickly stands out for his extravagance, humor and great sensitivity, to the point of earning the audience's favor and becoming one of the show's most popular characters.

Selective filmography

Bob the Servant (2014)
Stonemouth (2015)
Sex Education (2019)

Credits: © Janey van Ierland

Actress ⎮ The Netherlands

Biography

Katja Herbers is a Dutch actress known for her leading role as ‘Kristen Bouchard’ on Robert and Michelle King’s hit CBS series, Evil.  She stars as ‘Emily’ in HBO’s Westworld opposite Ed Harris and was a series regular for two seasons on the critically acclaimed WGN series Manhattan created by Sam Shaw. Additional television credits include the mini-series Manhunt: Unabomber and recurring roles on the final season of HBO’s The Leftovers and FX’S The Americans.

Selective filmography

Divorce (2012)
Manhattan (2014)
The Americans (2015)
The Leftovers (2017)
Manhunt: Unabomber (2017)
Westworld (2018)
Evil (2019)