Born in 1985, Alban Ravassard is a screenwriter, director and assistant director. He has written and directed short films presented in national and international festivals and awarded several prizes. In 2009, he graduated from a film school, where it followed a double training in directing and assistant directing. In parallel of these studies, he obtained a degree in Cinema with honors at the University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. In 2010, he was part of the first edition of the Locarno Summer Academy, program aiming for the development of emerging talent. The same year, he co-founded L'Atelier 321, a director’s collective. In 2013, he participated at the short film writing marathon of the International Festival of Screenwriters of Valencia (France) and was named programmer of shorts films at the Korean Film Festival in Paris, a function he still fulfills at present. In 2014, he wrote and directed "The Call", a Crime/Fantasy short film of 17 minutes coproduced by La Casquette productions and L’Atelier 321. He also co-wrote the screenplay of "Vincent Square", a 15 minutes dramedy produced by Insolence productions for which he was a finalist at the International Script Pitch Interfilm Berlin Festival. In 2015, he was part of the workshop "L'immagine e la parola" with Emmanuel Carrère organized by the Locarno Film Festival. It also presents "Altilaneus" a medieval webserie co-written with Clémence Lebatteux in the webserie competition of the International festival of screenwriters of Valencia (France). He is an active member of the French Director’s Guild. Read less