Nicolas Boukhrief (born 4 June 1963) is a French screenwriter, film director and actor.

Boukhrief started his career as a journalist. In 1990 he created the Newspaper of the cinema on Canal+, and was the writer in chief until 1993, when he became the adviser on programming cinema. Since January 1997, he has been a programmer and presenter of My film club on Canal+. Along with Richard Grandpierre he was co-person in charge for Canal Plus Ecriture, and since 1997, of the department of Eskwad production within that chain. He was Andrzej Żuławski's assistant from 1985 to 1987. Thereafter he was a co-scenario writer of Jean-Jacques Zilbermann's film Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents, and of Assassin(s), directed by Mathieu Kassovitz.

Biography

Nicolas Boukhrief est né d’un père algérien peintre en bâtiment et d’une mère française employée de bibliothèque. Il grandit à Antibes. Après avoir fondé la revue de cinéma Starfix avec Christophe Ganz, il se lance dans le cinéma comme scénariste puis réalisateur. Ses références sont, entre autres, Murnau, Christopher Nolan, Mario Bava, Dario Argento, Terence Fisher.

Nicolas Baby, l’ancien bassiste de FFF, a composé la musique de quatre de ses films, Le Plaisir (et ses petits tracas), Le convoyeur, Cortex et Gardiens de l'ordre.

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