Sébastien Marnier


Sébastien Marnier is a French film director and screenwriter, best known for his 2022 film The Origin of Evil .

Background

A graduate of Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis, he was a contributor to Michel Reilhac's 2002 film The Good Old Naughty Days , and co-directed two short films, The Main Game and Handsome Jack , with Élise Griffon. As a novice emerging director, however, he had difficulty securing funding to make a feature film, and he turned to other jobs for a number of years.
In 2011 he published the novel Mimi. In 2013, the novel won the Prix du roman gai for the best LGBT-themed novel published in France and Belgium in the previous five years. He subsequently collaborated with Caroline Lunoir, Fanny Saintenoy and Anne-Sophie Stefanini on the collective novel Qu4tre, and published the novella Une vie de petits-fours and the graphic novel Salaire net et monde de brutes, which was inspired by his own employment history of short-term and temporary work.
Faultless , his feature directorial debut, was released in 2016. He followed up with School's Out in 2018, and The Origin of Evil in 2022.
The Origin of Evil was the winner of the Audience Award for Narrative Features at the 2023 Frameline Film Festival.

Filmography

Director and writer

Writer

  • 2016 : Salaire net et monde de brut, written with Élise Griffon