Selection Committees

Chloé Caye is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Culture aux Trousses website. She is also a writer for Positif magazine and Les Échos. She teaches film history and theory, as well as film analysis. In 2024, she joined the feature film selection committee for La Semaine de la Critique. She programmes and runs several film clubs in Paris.

A film buff from a very young age and brought up on the magazine Starfix, Laurent Hérin initially worked in communications in Paris and then in Bastia, where he settled in 2004. A culture journalist for Corse Matin, he is also a film columnist on ICI RCFM. After four years on the programming team for the Lama Film Festival, he has collaborated with Nuits Med, Cinetica and the reading committee for the Casell’arte writers’ residency. Alongside this, he works in cinema exhibition, as a programmer and projectionist. All the whilst, he never stops devouring films at the cinema.

A journalist and film critic for Première magazines and TroisCouleurs, Damien Leblanc was also the programmer of the Couleurs de la Toile film club. Damien takes part of several festival juries and hosts debates and films presentations. Before joining the feature film selection committee, he has been member of the shorts films selection committee in 2022. In addition, he published an analytical book on the Mad Men TV serie published by Playlist Society.

Olivier Pelisson is a journalist and film critic, he writes for Bande à Part, Bref and for Canal+ Grand Écran channel. He used to work for Zurban, DvdLive, Monsieur Cinéma, Le Cinéma dans les yeux, French Mania and Top of the Shorts show on Canal+ Cinema. Over the years, Pélisson has been programmer (Paris Film Festival), script reader (France 2 Cinéma, CNC), he has hosted some film critic workshops (Paris, Cannes, Hambourg, Bakouriani, Erevan), festivals debates and meetings (La Ciotat, Moulins). He takes part of international juries and is a member of the board of directors of the French Union of Film Critics. Olivier Pelisson is one of the contributor of Dictionnaire Eustache published by Léo Sheer editions. Since 2015, he is in La Semaine de la Critique selection committee.

Perrine Quennesson is an independant journalist who writes for several magazines such as CinémaTeaser, Film Français and Trois couleurs. She created and hosts the 7e Science podcast where Science meets cinema (produced by Sorbonne University and Binge Audio). Perrine Quennesson participates in Tchi Tcha and Le Cercle Séries shows, collaborates with many festivals (Lumière, Séries Mania, Champs Elysées Film Festival...) and with VOD plateform (FilmoTV). Beside that, she is a professor at l’Ecole Supérieure d’Etudes Cinématographiques (ESEC) in Paris.

Esther Brejon is a journalist and film critic. A freelancer for the programme "Forever cinéma" on Ciné+, she writes regularly for Rockyrama and Sorociné. She created and hosted the podcast "Silence elles tournent" on female directors in the history of cinema.

Gregory Coutaut founded LePolyester.com in 2018, an online magazine dedicated to news about international arthouse cinema. As part of this, he covers dozens of festivals each year, both in France and abroad, where LePolyester is sometimes the only French media outlet in attendance. Until 2021, he chaired Aloha Distribution, a company that facilitates the theatrical release of foreign feature-length documentaries in French cinemas. In 2022, he served as artistic adviser to the selection committee for the Directors’ Fortnight, and since 2025, he has been a member of the short film selection committee for Critics’ Week.

Raphaëlle Pireyre is a film critic for the magazines AOC, Trois couleurs, and Bref. Since September 2024, she has been a contributor to Midis on France Culture. From 2020 to 2022, she wrote for Cahiers du Cinéma. She is also a member of the Arte Cinéma reading committee and the short film committee of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

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