Florent Emilio Siri
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Florent Emilio Siri is a French movie director. He studied cinema at Sorbonne University and ESRA in Paris. He began his feature film career with the 1998 social film "Une minute de silence" (One minute of silence), and continues in 2002 with the action film Nid de guêpes (The Nest), and then went on to serve as director of two critically-acclaimed and highly successful Splinter Cell games at French-based video game developer Ubisoft, titled Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. Following the underground success of his first feature film, Siri's directorial style caught the eye of actor Bruce Willis, who asked Siri to direct his big-budget 2005 action thriller Hostage. While not a big success, the film earned considerable critical praise of Siri's slick direction, calling it "an art house version of the Die Hard films."[1]
Florent Siri is also a noted music video director, particularly in his home country of France. He has worked with such bands as IAM, Expression Directe, Alliance Ethnik, and Wu-Tang Clan, among others.