Founding members

Based in Paris since 1989, she has built her career across cinema, television, and theater. She has played numerous roles while traveling the world, including in: Satin Rouge and Corps Étranger (Amari), La Porte du Soleil (Nasrallah), La Fiancée Syrienne and Les Citronniers (Riklis), Free Zone (Gitai), Munich (Spielberg), The Visitor (McCarthy), La Source des Femmes (Mihaileanu), The Limits of Control (Jarmusch), Miral (Schnabel), Dégradé and Gaza mon Amour (Frères Nasser), Une Famille Syrienne (Van-Leeuw), and Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve).

She has also appeared in several series including: Succession, Ramy, The Old Man, Oussekine, and Tout Va Bien.

She has directed three short films: Le Pain, La Danse Éternelle, and Le Donne della Vucciria, as well as one feature film, Héritage.

She holds a BTS in Production Management from EICAR and completed the One Year Producing Program at the New York Film Academy. She began her career in New York working in stage management and assistant directing at HBO, as well as executive producing at Coldcuts Productions on music videos, commercials, and short films. In 2014, she produced her first feature film, Early Light, directed by Geoffray Barbier. They later collaborated on a feature-length documentary in 2020, You Don’t Know Ivan Julian, a portrait of a Punk Rock musician.

Currently a production coordinator and post-production director, she founded her own company, Jam Productions, to develop projects exploring the world and its upcoming challenges, including three initial short films directed by Gérald Portenart.

A graduate of the Decorative Arts School of Strasbourg, Swann Arlaud (born 1981) began acting in the early 2000s. He has appeared in films such as Ni le ciel ni la terre by Clément Cogitore, Les anarchistes by Elie Wajeman, and Petit Paysan by Hubert Charuel, for which he won the César Award for Best Actor in 2018. He also starred in Grâce à Dieu by François Ozon, earning the César Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2020. In 2024, he won the same award for his role in Anatomie d’une chute by Justine Triet, which won the Palme d’Or in 2023.

In 2016, he co-directed his first short film, Venerman, with Tatiana Vialle, and in 2019, he directed his second short, Zorey, as part of the Adami Films series.

He is one of the leading figures of ecological activism in France, having been a key initiator of the “Affaire du Siècle” and the Citizens’ Convention for Climate. He has led several NGOs, co-founded the magazine Kaizen, and created the Domaine du possible collection at Actes Sud. He is the author of several poetry collections, a novel, numerous essays, and children’s books.

He co-directed the film Demain (Tomorrow) with Mélanie Laurent, which won the César Award for Best Documentary in 2016, and Animal, which was selected at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for a César. In 2022, he wrote and starred in a three-part documentary series, Un monde nouveau (A New World), aired on Arte. He is currently working on We Could Be Heroes, a fiction miniseries with France Télévisions International, as well as a film adaptation of Pierre Ducrozet’s novel Le Grand Vertige.

Jérémie began his career at age 15 in La Promesse by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne. Three years later, he continued with Les Amants criminels by François Ozon. He made his mark on the big screen with historical films, comedies, and biopics such as Cloclo, a biopic about Claude François, which earned him the Swan d’Or, the Globe de Cristal for Best Actor, and a César Award nomination for Best Actor. Two years later, he won the Magritte Award for Best Supporting Actor for Saint Laurent and was once again nominated for a César.

Jérémie Rénier is also the director of the film Carnivores, starring Leïla Bekhti and Zita Hanrot, released in 2018.

Carole Scotta founded HAUT ET COURT in 1992 after winning the Lagardère Foundation Producer Grant. Over the past 30 years, Haut et Court has produced films selected and awarded at numerous international festivals, including the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1998 for Ma Vie en Rose by Alain Berliner, the Palme d’Or in 2008 for Entre les Murs by Laurent Cantet, the International Emmy Award in 2013 for the series Les Revenants by Fabrice Gobert, as well as seven César Awards, including Best Film in 2023 for La Nuit du 12 by Dominik Moll.

An entrepreneur in New York at 24, Flore Vasseur experienced the Internet bubble, the September 11 attacks, and a capitalist system cracking at the seams. A graduate of HEC, she shifted paths to understand the end of one world and the emergence of another.

Her writings—novels, articles, and columns—challenge the madness of a world built on finance, technology, and the belief in infinite growth. She questions our relationship with comfort and the elite, as well as our indifference to the erosion of our freedoms.

Close to whistleblowers, she filmed the documentary Meeting Snowden in Moscow with the former NSA contractor. Her first feature film, Bigger Than Us, focuses on youth engagement to repair the world. Broadcast in 56 countries, it is supported by an unprecedented impact campaign with over 4,000 community screenings in France.

After spending about ten years in film distribution (Mars Films), Juliette chose to specialize in environmental issues within the film industry. She focused her academic research on the role of public authorities in the environmental transition of movie theaters and subsequently joined the think tank The Shift Project as lead for cinema and audiovisual sectors, co-authoring the report Décarbonons la Culture! (Let’s Decarbonize Culture!).

In 2021, she founded La Base, a consultancy dedicated to supporting cultural businesses in their ecological transition through measurement, advice, and training.

In 2022, she co-created the Fresque du Film.