Laurent Touil-Tartour

Laurent Touil-Tartour

Touil-Tartour in 1999
Born November 23, 1971 (1971-11-23) (age 40)[1]
Paris, France
Occupation Film director, producer, screenwriter
Years active 1991–present
Influenced by Sergio Leone, Orson Welles, Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick, Sergei Eisenstein,

Laurent Touil-Tartour (born November 23, 1971)[2] is an award-winning French film director, screenwriter, producer. He is known for writing, directing and producing the critically acclaimed webseries Urban Wolf (2010). His works have been described by the American Film Institute,[3] Wired Magazine,[4] The Wall Street Journal[5] and others as "original and visionary".[6] In 2010 Touil-Tartour licensed the worldwide distribution rights of Urban Wolf to Sony Pictures Entertainment.[7] In 2011 Touil-Tartour has signed with blockbuster film director/producer Michael Bay's multi platform Emmy Award-winning production company "The Institute". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bay#The_Institute. , aka The Institute for the Development of Enhanced Perceptual Awareness, to direct feature films, commercials, video games, web content and/or TV shows.[8]

Contents

Filmography

Web

Feature films

Awards and nominations

Awards

Nominations

Appearances in media

References

  1. ^ Internet Movie Database. "IMDB LTT". imdb.com. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1417216/. Retrieved 2011-01-31. 
  2. ^ Internet Movie Database. "IMDB LTT". imdb.com. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1417216/. Retrieved 2011-01-31. 
  3. ^ "AFI DigiFest Most Compelling Films of 2009". http://blog.afi.com/main/index.php/2009/10/28/afi-fest-2009-presented-by-audi-presents-third-afi-digifest-showcase-november-4-and-5//. 
  4. ^ Wired Magazine. "Spy Thriller Urban Wolf Crackles With Tension (But Without Words)". wired.com. http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/03/urban-wolf/. Retrieved 2010-03-31. 
  5. ^ The Wall Street Journal. "Web Series Tap Prime Time". wsj.com. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704749904575293140111348612.html. Retrieved 2010-07-29. 
  6. ^ Jessica Kantor. "FNB Innovators: Laurent Touil Tartour". filmnewsbriefs.com. http://filmnewsbriefs.com/2009/12/fnb-innovators-laurent-tartour//. Retrieved 2009-12-09. 
  7. ^ "Crackle.com Launches Acclaimed International Suspense Web Series 'Urban Wolf'". PR Newswire. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cracklecom-launches-acclaimed-international-suspense-web-series-urban-wolf-89626007.html. 
  8. ^ http://www.theinstitute.tv/directors.php?id=19
  9. ^ San-Antonio at the Internet Movie Database
  10. ^ "Urban Wolf winner of the Best Drama Webby Awards 2011". http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?media_id=97&season=15#film_drama. 
  11. ^ "The 2009 ITVFest winners are...". http://itvfest.org/. 
  12. ^ "2009 Dragon*Con Awards Winners". http://filmfest.dragoncon.org/filmfest09awards.htm. 
  13. ^ "AFI DigiFest Most Compelling Films of 2009". http://www.afi.com/Education/dcl/. 
  14. ^ "THIS is one of the reasons we come to Comic-Con, to discover awesome work like URBAN WOLF! I got home and I wrote about the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con saying, "Every ComicCon has its one dark horse, some indie, just below the radar, that makes a splash. Usually it is a comic title, but this year I'm putting my money on a new webseries called URBAN WOLF. A Science Fiction Mystery Thriller written, directed, and produced by Laurent Touil Tartour..."". http://www.feoamante.com/Movies/STU/urban_wolf.html. 
  15. ^ "Urban Wolf at the MIT Media Lab". http://www.media.mit.edu/research/center-future-storytelling. 
  16. ^ "Urban Wolf nominated for Best Drama at The Webby Awards 2011". http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?media_id=97&season=15#film_drama. 
  17. ^ http://eguiders.com/studio/eg-live-urban-wolf-in-the-studio/
  18. ^ Web.Files #38 Urban Wolf Video on YouTube
  19. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346366/episodes#year-2002

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Further Reading