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Sylvain White is a Director and Writer French born on 21 december 1971 at Paris (France)

Sylvain White

Sylvain White
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Nationality France
Birth 21 december 1971 (52 years) at Paris (France)

Sylvain White (born February 12, 1975) is a French-born film director.

Biography

Son of an American professional basketball player and a French flight attendant, Sylvain White was born in France and grew up in Paris. After attending La Sorbonne University for law, he earned a scholarship to Pomona College in Los Angeles, Upon graduation a series of award-winning short films led him to direct a series of groundbreaking music videos and commercials in the US, Europe and Japan.

Sylvain opened his first theatrical feature Stomp The Yard at number one in the US. He went on to direct the explosive action comedy The Losers starring Chris Evans, Idris Elba and Zoe Saldana. He then went back to his native Paris to write and direct the acclaimed murder mystery La Marque Des Anges starring Gérard Depardieu.

Sylvain also directs numerous television episodes such as CSI, Hawaii 5-0 and Covert Affairs.

He is currently packaging, writing and developing several feature film projects .

Best films

Stomp the Yard (2007)
(Director)

Usually with

Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Sylvain White (7 films)

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Director

Slender Man, 1h33
Directed by Sylvain White
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Teen movie
Actors Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles, Annalise Basso, Jaz Sinclair, Javier Botet, Talitha Bateman
Rating32% 1.6269451.6269451.6269451.6269451.626945
Dans une petite ville du Massachusetts, quatre adolescentes exécutent un rituel visant à démystifier l'existence d'un croquemitaine. Mais la disparition de l'une d'elles vient dramatiquement changer la donne.
Miserere
Miserere (2013)
, 1h46
Directed by Sylvain White
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Gérard Depardieu, JoeyStarr, Thierry Lhermitte, Helena Noguerra, Marthe Keller, Rüdiger Vogler
Rating56% 2.816392.816392.816392.816392.81639
In Paris, Lionel Kasdan, a retired BRI commander desperate to come back to action, investigates the strange murder of Wilhelm Goetz, a choir master and Chilean refugee found dead in his church with his eardrums blown out, surrounded by bloody children's footprints. Meanwhile, Captain Frank Salek, an Interpol agent on the verge of being suspended due to his erratic behavior, is on the trail of a secret organization specialized in kidnapping children. When he learns of Goetz's death, he establishes a link with his own investigation and reluctantly agrees to team up with Kasdan.
The Losers
The Losers (2010)
, 1h33
Directed by Sylvain White
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics
Actors Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, Columbus Short, Idris Elba, Jason Patric
Rating62% 3.100633.100633.100633.100633.10063
The Losers are an elite black ops team of United States Special Forces operatives, led by Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and formed by Roque (Idris Elba), Pooch (Columbus Short), Jensen (Chris Evans), and Cougar (Óscar Jaenada), who are sent to Bolivia in a search and destroy mission on a compound run by a drug lord. While painting a target for an upcoming air strike, the Losers spot slave children in the compound and try to call off the attack, but their superior, codenamed "Max" (Jason Patric), ignores their pleas.
Stomp the Yard, 1h54
Directed by Sylvain White
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Musical films
Actors Columbus Short, Meagan Good, Ne-Yo, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Brian J. White, Laz Alonso
Rating54% 2.7124652.7124652.7124652.7124652.712465
DJ Williams (Columbus Short) is a young man in inner-city Los Angeles. He and his younger brother Duron (Chris Brown) compete in local dance competitions as members of a crew known as the "Goon Squad". During the battle there are backs and forths, but in the end of the battle the Goon Squad win a cash-prize, and the leader of the rival crew goes all in for a double or nothing battle,which DJ accepts much to the dismay of his brother who knows that if the opposing crew leader thinks he got hustled the crew won't be able to spend the money they win, the Goon Squad wins the second battle and the losing home crew responds by ambushing DJ and his crewmates after the show. A fight breaks out, and the leader of the rival crew starts beating up DJ. Duron pushes him away and starts fighting him, leading the rival to pull out a gun and shoot Duron, killing him.
I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, 1h32
Directed by Sylvain White
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Brooke Nevin, David Paetkau, Torrey DeVitto, Ben Easter, K.C. Clyde, Don Shanks
Rating34% 1.712131.712131.712131.712131.71213
On July 4, Amber Williams (Brooke Nevin), her friends Zoe (Torrey DeVitto) and Roger (Seth Packard) and her boyfriend Colby Patterson (David Paetkau) stage a prank at the town carnival, with Roger faking the return of the "Fisherman" killer, with the hook Roger says Ben Willis originally used. However, during the prank, their friend PJ Davis (Clay Taylor) performs a stunt as part of the act. The prank seemingly goes without a hitch, but when they return, they see everyone staring at PJ's body impaled on a pipe. The public believes the Fisherman to be behind it and to cover up what happened, Colby convinces his friends to burn the evidence and make a pact that the secret will die with them.
Trois: The Escort, 1h35
Directed by Sylvain White
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Brian J. White, Patrice Fisher, Reagan Gomez-Preston, Isaiah Washington
Rating49% 2.480592.480592.480592.480592.48059
Trenton Meyer is an intelligent, but naive college student turned hip-hop promoter who gets a little more than what he had bargained for when a failed hip-hop concert goes south. Trent turns to the world of male prostitution to pay what he owes to an underworld figure. Meanwhile, in this life of prostitution, he falls for a colleague, who turns out to be a femme fatale.

Scriptwriter

Miserere
Miserere (2013)
, 1h46
Directed by Sylvain White
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Gérard Depardieu, JoeyStarr, Thierry Lhermitte, Helena Noguerra, Marthe Keller, Rüdiger Vogler
Roles Scenario Writer
Rating56% 2.816392.816392.816392.816392.81639
In Paris, Lionel Kasdan, a retired BRI commander desperate to come back to action, investigates the strange murder of Wilhelm Goetz, a choir master and Chilean refugee found dead in his church with his eardrums blown out, surrounded by bloody children's footprints. Meanwhile, Captain Frank Salek, an Interpol agent on the verge of being suspended due to his erratic behavior, is on the trail of a secret organization specialized in kidnapping children. When he learns of Goetz's death, he establishes a link with his own investigation and reluctantly agrees to team up with Kasdan.
Walled In
Walled In (2009)
, 1h30
Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Mischa Barton, Cameron Bright, Deborah Kara Unger, Noam Jenkins, Tim Allen, Pascal Greggory
Roles Writer
Rating47% 2.354612.354612.354612.354612.35461
Sam Walczak (Mischa Barton), is a recent engineering graduate. At her graduation party, her father, an owner of a demolition company, gives her a gift: a job supervising the demolition of a building in the middle of nowhere. If she's successful, she will become his partner. Sam arrives at the Malestrazza Building, and is greeted by Mary (Deborah Kara Unger), the caretaker. Sam tells Mary she will be staying in one of the apartments in the building. Jimmy (Cameron Bright), the caretaker's teenage son, takes her bags to her apartment and explains the rules of the building. She is to stay off the eighth floor because it is Malestrazza's and the roof because it is too dangerous.