Team

“They didn’t know it was impossible, so they did it”
Marc Twain

After graduating from ESC Tours (Escem), François-Hugues de Vaumas started in television (Expand Interactive: Fort Boyard, Les Minikeums, etc.) before founding Aloest Productions with Xavier de Lauzanne. A passionate expert on audiovisual techniques, he chooses the most suitable resources for the various productions Aloest is in charge of. Always aware of new technologies, he comes up with innovative solutions and likes technical challenges. Alongside his production activities, he directs museum and corporate films for which he develops his directing talent. Strong technical choices, a sharp sense of didacticism, and faultless aestheticism are the guiding lines of his films.

“In documentary-making, I like to act as a lampshade”
Depardon

Born in 1970 in the Paris region, Xavier de Lauzanne studied to be a hotel manager before setting up hotel management courses for underprivileged young people in Martinique, Vietnam, and Cambodia. He bought his first digital camera in 1999 to film a documentary in Vietnam for a year, Hanoi entre deux 14 juillet, about a bicycle-powered rickshaw’s journey at the turn of the century. When he met the founders of the charity, “Pour un sourire d’enfant” in Cambodia, for whom he made an informational film, he gained concrete experience of directing. Now, 15 years later, he has made over 10 documentaries, three of which for the cinema: D’une seule voix (2009), Enfants Valises (2013), Les Pépites (2016).

“Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.”
Oscar Wilde

“Choose work you like and you’ll never do a day’s work in your life.”
Confucius

“If Plan A doesn’t work, there are still another 25 letters in the alphabet!”
Ulrich Kévick Tossa

“Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.”
Aldous Huxley

“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.”
W Clement Stone

“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.”
Betty Reese

“Creating is living twice.”
Albert Camus

“Filmmaking is tough, but working for real is worse!”
Woody Allen

“When you have big dreams, you attract other big dreamers.”
Dr Robert H. Shuller

“Make your life a dream and the dream a reality.”
Antoine de St Exupéry

“Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual…”
David Lynch

“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
Marcel Proust