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Screenwriter, film editor, director. Years active. 1997–present. Robin Campillo ( French: [ʁɔbɛ̃ kɑ̃pijo]; born 16 August 1962) is a Moroccan-born French screenwriter, editor and film director. He is known for his work on films such as The Class (2008), Heading South (2005), the French zombie film They Came Back (2004), Eastern Boys ...
Director. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Robin Campillo was born on 16 August 1962 in Mohammédia, Morocco. He is a writer and editor, known for Eastern Boys (2013), 120 BPM (2017) and The Class (2008). More at IMDbPro. Contact info. Agent info. Resume. Born August 16, 1962. Add to list. Awards. 32 wins & 37 nominations. Photos 6. Known for:
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Apr 5, 2018 · Robin Campillo was a member of ACT UP, the Aids activist group, in the 80s and 90s. He tells the story of their resistance, hope, and love in his prize-winning film 120 BPM, based on his own experiences.
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Oct 24, 2017 · The filmmaker recounts his experience as a member of ACT UP Paris, a group of activists fighting against AIDS, with humor, joy, and reverence. He creates a river novel of a story with a large cast of characters, showing the chaos, urgency, and contradictions of their lives.
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It has been a long journey for Campillo to get to this point, not least because he abandoned his filmmaking dreams for more than a decade as he digested the implications of the virus. “Cinema seemed so irrelevant,” he says. “None of the directors I admired had ever had to deal with something on the scale of what was unfolding before my eyes. I coul...
In the backdrop, he was also percolating ideas for a film directly capturing the early days of the Aids epidemic. After dabbling with various storylines, he came around to the idea of focusing on Act Up some eight years ago. It took a while to figure out the structure, combining the drama around Act Up’s weekly meetings in an amphitheatre with scen...
One of the most complicated aspects of the film was its casting, suggests Luciani. The film features a dozen key characters among some 70 speaking roles in total. “We had a lot of discussions about the cast,” she says. “All the key characters are equally important in their different ways. We needed each performance, however small, to be authentic a...
The French filmmaker, who was a member of Act Up Paris, talks about his Oscar-nominated drama BPM (Beats Per Minute), which captures the early days of the epidemic in France. He reveals how his own experience of fear, grief and anger inspired his portrait of the grassroots group and its actions.
Mar 1, 2024 · The director of 120 BMP and BPM (Beats per Minute) talks about his new film Red Island, inspired by his experience as a gay child in 1970s Madagascar. He explores the ambiguity, excitement and threat of growing up around soldiers and colonialism.
Mar 9, 2024 · The French director of BPM recalls his childhood on a French military base in 1970s Madagascar, where he witnessed the colonial and postcolonial tensions. The film shifts from a nostalgic family drama to a revolutionary perspective of the Malagasy people, led by Miangaly.
