ProfileActivities : Executive Producer, Director, Assistant Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Music Composer, Sales Agent
CompaniesI Love You Production : Producer
Contact detailsI Love You Production
27, rue Erard
75017 Paris
France
Latest filmsPetits tracas des morts (2006), from Yann Saint-Pé
Dans tes rêves (2004), from Denis Thybaud
Open up it's Daddy ! (2003), from Yann Saint-Pé
Almost peaceful (2002), from Michel Deville
Strayed (2002), from André Téchiné
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BiographyYann Saint-Pé was born in Paris July 3, 1971, in a taxi between the Porte de la Chapelle and the Porte Maillot. At the age of 13, he founded a newspaper, "Le Petit Journal," to earn some pocket money and to go to the movies more often, for which he interviewed personalities such as Serge Gainsbourg, Bruno Cremer and Michel Blanc. He went on to attract the attention of Canal +, who dragooned him into presenting the program "Canaille Hebdo." Working alone, he made the decision to write stories and direct them in the future, completing his first screenplay that summer.
At the age of 15, Saint-Pé made his first short film, "T'aime du mot je t'aime!" At 16, he hitchhiked to Nice. On the ferry to Corsica, he fell in love with Laura. On his return, his life revolved around the movies and Laura, to the exclusion of everything else. Studying was not for him. But his dad did not share his enthusiasm for the movies, and a door was closed on him. He found himself left to his own devices.
Two years later, at the age of 18 years and one day, Saint-Pé embarked on his first job as a trainee director on the film "Tatie Danielle." Thanks to Tatie, he was saved from starvation and was able to write his second short film. He turned for assistance to the screenwriter Jean Gruault, who directed him on to Bernard Revon, screenwriter and close ally of François Truffaut. This led to a meeting, from which grew a friendship and admiration. Saint-Pé became Revon's student, an association that lasted eight years. Serge Rousseau, agent of big-name actors, took him under his wing. In 1998, he wrote "Résurrection" for Alain Berberian, director of "Les Nuls." That year he traveled to Eastern Europe, working as first assistant director to Josée Dayan for her film “Balzac." He had a lot of fun, learned a great deal… and stuck it out to the end in spite of a certain benevolent despotism on the part of the director.
In the spring of 2001, Saint-Pé founded "I Love You Production" together with his buddy, the screenwriter Nicholas Robert. They were joined by five other screenwriters in the adventure of producing, and shooting "Ouvre, c'est papa!" The film was bought by TPS the following November. In December, Saint-Pé senior discovered the film, and the door began to open again. In 2002, Saint-Pé began writing the screenplays for two feature films, "La belle et le Nobel" and "La petite fiancée." Unifrance selected "Ouvre, c'est papa!" to compete at various international film festivals, and printed an English version of the film. In the summer of 2002, Yann Saint-Pé worked as André Techiné's assistant on "Le garçon aux yeux gris," later titled "Les Egarés" ("Strayed"). "Ouvre, c'est papa!" continues its career on the festival circuit.