Mar 3, 2009
Elizabeth Marre was born in Paris and completed law
school while studying acting for several years.
Elizabeth worked as 1st Assistant Director on
feature films, where she traveled from Lebanon to Hong-Kong,
working on films such as La
Moustache and Caramel.
Olivier Pont grew up in the French Riviera. He
graduated from the Gobelins, the French National Animation School.
He
worked as an animator at the Steven
Spielberg’s Amblimation Studio in London and then developed his
own stories as a comic strip artist. Olivier edited eight
cartoon books, including Où le Regard ne porte pas….
Elizabeth and Olivier
have together written and directed two short films : That Little
Spark (La Petite Flamme) and Manon on the
Asphalt (Manon sur le Bitume).
Both films have screened and been awarded in several festivals
world wide and Manon on the Asphalt was nominated for the 2009
Academy Award for Live Action
Short.