Geoffroy Faugérolas (A.K.A. Geoff) is an award-winning French writer, director, and producer whose credits include the epic period piece THE TSAREVICH starring Mark Moses (MAD MEN, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES), ALICE, an avant-garde mystery thriller, the experimental MEMOIRE starring Dean Winters (JOHN WICK, BROOKLYN NINE-NINE) and BLEEDING KANSAS, a psychological western starring Will McCullough (LOGAN LUCKY, AMERICAN MADE) and McKinley Belcher III (OZARK).
He is currently a Senior Manager of Development at Coverfly, having played an integral role in the signing of 350+ writers and the packaging and development of 50+ projects with production companies and studios. One of his TV pitches is being developed at a major production company with an overall deal. He directed and produced music videos for #1 Billboard artists such as Wale, Jeremih, Starling Glow, T-Pain, Dreezy, Bleeker Ridge, Never Shout Never and French artists Dany Synthé, Shay, Joe Bel and Gia Martinelli. Geoffroy has also worked with Samsung, Dodge, and Corona among other brands winning Telly Awards and ADDY awards. His shorts were nominated at Academy-Awards® qualifying film festivals including Raindance Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival and Los Angeles Shorts International Film Festival.
Geoffroy is a Shore Scripts Film Fund Top 10 Finalist, a 2019 Shore Scripts TV Pilot Contest semi-finalist, a 2019 Final Draft's Big Break Screenwriting Contest top 10 finalist and a 2020 ScreenCraft Drama Screenplay Competition finalist. He also wrote episodes for the murder-mystery interactive webseries SOLVE for Snapchat and two episodes for an international animated sci-fi series currently in production.
He is considered a "writer/director to look for" by The Huffington Post and The Moscow Times. He studied for a BBA at the University of Montreal, earned an AFA in Filmmaking from the New York Film Academy, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Pepperdine University with a BFA in Media Production and earned an MFA from UCLA's prestigious Producers Program. He worked in Motion Pictures development at Paramount Pictures, New Regency (20th Century Fox), Lionsgate Entertainment and in TV Production at Imagine Entertainment. He's also a frequent guest speaker on the entertainment industry at universities, industry panels, and conferences. You can find press coverage on some of the initiatives he lead on Deadline (Diverse Voices Initiative) and TheWrap (Development Partnership).
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Medium: Hollywood’s Screenwriting Talent-Discovery Problem by Geoffroy Faugérolas
Variety: Fine Cut Festival of Films: Judges Select 14 Student Finalists for 2019 Contest
Videostatic: Dreezy Ft. T-Pain – Close To You (Universal/Interscope)
IBTimes: Wale and the representation of women in his new video
Montreal World Film Festival: 45th year Press Release – Alice
The Examiner: A true story of Russian Civil War inspires “The Tsarevich”
Flickering Myth: From Wonderland to Russia: Interview with Geoffroy