Thierry Frémaux

Thierry Frémaux (born 29 May 1960 in Tullins) is the director of the Institut Lumière, of the Lumière Film Festival and of the Cannes Film Festival.

Education and career
Frémaux has a diplôme d'études approfondies (equivalent to a Master of Advanced Studies) in film history from Lumière University Lyon 2.

In 2017, Frémaux gathered a collection of the early films by Auguste and Louis Lumière into a whole feature film ''Lumière ! l'aventure commence'', also narrating the original version of the film, in French.