Geoffroy Faugérolas (A.K.A. Geoff) is an award-winning French-American writer, director, and producer and current head of development 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 built a reputation in Hollywood as scout, matchmaker and deal-maker. Currently the head of development at Stage 32, he oversees a marketplace of 1,5 million members, connecting writers and creatives with 3,000 industry executives. Formerly the Senior Manager of Development at Coverfly, he played an integral role in helping 500+ writers sell their projects, find representation or getting staffed. On the packaging and development front, Geoffroy discovered and supported 50+ projects that got put in development with production companies and studios. One of his TV pitches is being developed at a major production company with an overall deal. He also 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 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.
In addition to scouting and packaging specs and IPs for thousands of prod co’s and reps, he’s also built talent incubators with Zero Gravity (Deadline), Mammoth Pictures (Variety), Evoke Entertainment (Deadline), Color Farm Media (Deadline), ReelShort (TheWrap), DramaBox (The Hollywood Reporter) secured partnerships with A-listers (Deadline | Deadline), negotiated deals and created opportunities for hundreds of writers (Deadline) and helped grow massive platforms/libraries of IPs (Deadline). Many of the specs, short stories, and other IPs he’s discovered ended up selling including I Am Not Alone -- the record-breaking short story sold to Netflix.
Geoffroy was a finalist in a number of Screenwriting competitions including Shore Scripts, Final Draft's Big Break and ScreenCraft. 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 a frequent guest speaker on the entertainment industry at universities, industry panels, and conferences as well as a mentor to junior executives and creatives.
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Deadline: Stage 32, Pathfinder Media Film & Todd Biermann Set First Winner Of New Comedy Screenwriting Contest
Deadline: Stage 32 and Evoke Team to Fast-Track Emerging Rom-Com Writers
Hollywood Reporter: Verticals Platform DramaBox Courts Up-and-Coming Writers With Stage 32 Partnership
Variety: Stage 32 and Mammoth Pictures Team for Horror Development Program
Deadline: Stage 32 and Erika Alexander’s Color Farm Media Launch Diversity Talent Accelerator
Deadline: Stage 32 And Zero Gravity Launch Action & Thriller-Focused Screenwriting Incubator
ReelShort’s Exponential Growth Creates New Market for Super-Skinny Content
Deadline: Erika Alexander’s Color Farm Searching For “Underrepresented Voices” With WeScreenplay Partnership
Deadline: Damon Lindelof To Serve As Mentor For ScreenCraft TV Pilot Competition
Deadline: Coverfly Releases List Of Lists To Highlight Up and Coming Screenwriting Talent
Deadline: Global Screenwriting Contest Hub Launched by Stage 32
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
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