Rodrigue Huart
Directing
Biography
Rodrigue Huart is a French director whose work spans music videos, documentaries, short and feature films. He began his career directing music videos for artists including Fishbach, We Have Band, Gims, Juveniles, Siboy, and Las Aves. After this period, he self-financed and directed his first documentary, Is It Punk Music? (2017), which follows two brothers leaving the British countryside to make punk music in London.. He then directed Are You Still Here? (2018) for Canal+, tracking the last tour of the French band Her's after the tragic death of its co-founder. In 2023, Huart moved into short films with Transylvanie (2023), a 15-minute film in which a 10-year-old girl, living in a small derelict town, is convinced she is a vampire and will stop at nothing to prove it. The film premiered at genre festivals, including the Midnight Short competition at the SXSW Film & TV Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Award for Midnight Short. In 2024, Huart directed Réel (2024). This four-minute short film follows the discovery of a smartphone in a farmer's field in 1857, blending historical anachronism and horror. He also made Trigger (2024), a low-budget horror short shot on an iPhone in his apartment, featuring an ASMR artist livestreamer confronted by a mysterious stranger. According to his own statements, his taste "when it comes to fiction" is for work that "gets dark and tense". Transylvanie was nominated for the Gold Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival in 2024, nominated at the Denver Film Festival in 2024, and won the SXSW Grand Jury Award (Midnight Short) in 2024. Réel was nominated for the Get Shorty Audience Award at the Fantasy Filmfest in 2024.
Known For
A parody of television shows and streaming platforms.
Le Monde magique de Jérôme Commandeur
A prequel in the franchise. Plot TBA.
The Conjuring: First Communion
Jim and Loz Beck are brothers from Chipping Norton. They play rock'n'roll together since they're 8 years old. At 18, they leave the boring british countryside to live and work on their music in London. Jim starts working in a Cultural association while Loz discovers the pleasures of the student life. The film is driven by the raw punk music and the deeply political and emotional lyrics from their two piece band Cassels. In this intimate portrait, Jim and Loz will confront their strong artistic point of view and their DIY approach to the reality of the music industry and the social and economical London's life.
Is It Punk Music? A Year With Cassels
1857. Two peasants find a smartphone in their field.
Real
Ewa is a 10-year-old girl, convinced of being a vampire. When she gets bullied by teenagers from the neighborhood for her belief, she's ready to act in the creepiest, sickest ways to prove her identity to the world.
Transylvanie
A reimagining of the 1976 Spanish horror film Who Can Kill A Child? Plot TBA.
Suffer Little Children
Seventeen-year-old Zak is an ASMR artist. Every day, live from his bedroom, he whispers to his subscribers. But one evening, a strange stranger invites herself into the chat room and claims to know terrible secrets about Zak's life...
Trigger
The story of the band Her's last tour, held after the untimely passing of co-founder Simon Carpentier. The film shows how members of the band, and longtime partner Victor Solf in particular, try to keep the dream they had with Simon alive.