Stéphane Rybojad has been a director for more than 20 years. He has directed numerous adverts, music videos and short films that have won awards on the festival circuit. Up until 2000, he also directed hit TV shows and contributed to the artistic renewal of the genre.
His work as a filmmaker has led him to direct and produce more than 100 documentaries which have won several awards. His original approach, his inventive storytelling, his filming at the heart of the action and his journalistic investigations have meant his films have been shown on National Geographic, BBC, ZDF and the Discovery Channel, among others.
Through his films, Stéphane reaches a wide audience, thanks to his universal subjects like Haitian traumatism, extreme poverty (in collaboration with the UN), cyber-criminality, drug trafficking, wars in Bosnia, the Middle East and Afghanistan and extreme jobs. He has also tackled more specifically French topics such as illegal gold prospecting in French Guyana, docu-dramas on the Normandy landings and Special Forces operations in Afghanistan.
It was the latter which inspired him to write the screenplay SPECIAL FORCES. He has an almost intimate knowledge of the subject. The focus he brings to bear on the characters is at times intransigent, but always well-meaning. The originality of his approach and of his work convinced us to produce his first dramatic feature film. For Stéphane, making movies means giving the audience a realistic spectacle rich in emotions.
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