Birth Date: | 29 May 1960 |
Birth Place: | Tullins, Isère, France |
Nationality: | French |
Occupation: | Film critic |
Thierry Frémaux (in French tjɛ.ʁi fʁe.mo/; born 29 May 1960 in Tullins) is the director of the Institut Lumière, of the Lumière Film Festival and of the Cannes Film Festival.[1] [2]
Frémaux has a diplôme d'études approfondies (equivalent to a Master of Advanced Studies) in film history from Lumière University Lyon 2.[3]
In 2017, Frémaux gathered a collection of the early films by Auguste and Louis Lumière into a whole feature film Lumière ! l'aventure commence,[4] also narrating the original version of the film, in French.