Fabrice Du Welz is a Belgian

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 film director

Film director

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 and screenwriter

Screenwriter

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Biography

Du Welz studied at the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Liège

Liège

Liège is a major city and municipality of Belgium located in the province of Liège, of which it is the economic capital, in Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium....

 and at INSAS, a film school in Brussels

Brussels

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. In the 90's he directed many films in Super 8

Super 8 mm film

Super 8 mm film is a motion picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement of the older "Double" or "Regular" 8 mm home movie format....

 and wrote humorous sequences for Canal +. His first shot film was the short film "A Wonderful Love" in 1999 who won a prize at the Fantastic'Arts

Fantastic'Arts

The Festival international du film fantastique de Gérardmer is an international festival of horror and science fiction films which has been held each year since 1994 in Gérardmer in the Vosges, France towards the end of January...

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He has directed two feature length

Feature length

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 films since 2004

2004 in film

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: Calvaire which was screened at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival

2004 Cannes Film Festival

The 2004 Cannes Film Festival started on May 12 and ran until May 23. The Palme d'Or went to the American film Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore.-Jury:* Quentin Tarantino, President * Emmanuelle Béart * Edwidge Danticat * Tilda Swinton...

, and three years later in 2007, Vinyan

Vinyan

Vinyan is a 2008 drama film with horror themes directed and co-written by Fabrice du Welz. The film was du Welz' second as a director. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival on 30 August 2008....

that competed in the Venice Film Festival

Venice Film Festival

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 competition.

Calvaire starred Laurent Lucas

Laurent Lucas

-Biography:A student of Charles Dullin, Lucas soon became one of the most admired young performers in the Strasbourg National Theatre. He first emerged on the scene with his role in I Hate Love, where he starred as an HIV positive man....

 and Jackie Berroyer, and Vinyan was filmed in Thailand

Thailand

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 and starred Rufus Sewell

Rufus Sewell

Rufus Frederik Sewell is an English actor. In film, he has appeared in The Woodlanders, Dangerous Beauty, Dark City, A Knight's Tale, The Illusionist, Tristan and Isolde, and Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence. On television, he starred in the 2010 mini-series The Pillars of the Earth...

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Du Welz is currently working on the film "The Island at the thirty coffins" based on the work of Maurice Leblanc

Maurice Leblanc

Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes.- Biography :Leblanc was born in...

. His future project, "For Your Entertainment" (originally intended to be titled More), will star Brady Corbet

Brady Corbet

Brady James Monson Corbet is an American actor. Corbet is known for playing Mason Freeland in the film Thirteen, Brian Lackey in the film Mysterious Skin, Alan Tracy in the 2004 film Thunderbirds, and Peter in the 2008 film Funny Games...

. It is also the first US film for Du Welz. He will also direct a psychological horror

Psychological horror

Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that relies on character fears, guilt, beliefs, eerie sound effects, relevant music and emotional instability to build tension and further the plot...

 film, Alleluia, which will be based on the crimes of the The Lonely hearts killer.

Filmography

• Folles aventures de Thierry Van Hoost (1997)
• Quand on est amoureux c'est merveilleux (A Wonderful Love, 1999)
• Calvaire (The Ordeal, 2004)
• Vinyan
  Vinyan
  Vinyan is a 2008 drama film with horror themes directed and co-written by Fabrice du Welz. The film was du Welz' second as a director. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival on 30 August 2008....
  
  (2008)

External links

• Fabrice du Welz Website