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 the head of development at Stage 32 where he oversees a marketplace of 1,3 million members, connecting writers and creators with industry executives. A former Senior Manager of Development at Coverfly, he 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.

In addition to scouting and packaging specs and IPs for thousands of prod co’s and reps, he’s also built talent incubators (Variety | Deadline | TheWrap), 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 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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  1. Variety: Stage 32 and Mammoth Pictures Team for Horror Development Program

  2. Deadline: Stage 32 And Zero Gravity Launch Action & Thriller-Focused Screenwriting Incubator

  3. ReelShort’s Exponential Growth Creates New Market for Super-Skinny Content

  4. Deadline: Erika Alexander’s Color Farm Searching For “Underrepresented Voices” With WeScreenplay Partnership

  5. Deadline: Damon Lindelof To Serve As Mentor For ScreenCraft TV Pilot Competition

  6. Deadline: Coverfly Releases List Of Lists To Highlight Up and Coming Screenwriting Talent

  7. Deadline: Global Screenwriting Contest Hub Launched by Stage 32

  8. Deadline: Netflix Wins Record Short Story Auction

  9. VoyageLA: Meet Geoffroy Faugérolas

  10. Medium: Hollywood’s Screenwriting Talent-Discovery Problem by Geoffroy Faugérolas

  11. Variety: Fine Cut Festival of Films: Judges Select 14 Student Finalists for 2019 Contest

  12. Videostatic: Dreezy Ft. T-Pain – Close To You (Universal/Interscope)

  13. Videostatic: Bleeker – Highway – Music Video

  14. VideoStatic: Never Shout Never – Music Video

  15. PromoNews: Wiseworld’s Wale Video

  16. MTV News: Go on a first date with Wale ft. Jeremih’s video

  17. Billboard: Starling Glow is Tomorrow’s Hits!

  18. IBTimes: Wale and the representation of women in his new video

  19. Vibe: Wale on his “The Body” video

  20. AllMusic: Ignite Video Premiere

  21. VideoStatic: Wale Ft. Jeremih – Music Video

  22. VideoStatic: Starling Glow – Ignite Music Video

  23. Raindance Film Festival: 22th year Press Release – Alice

  24. Montreal World Film Festival: 45th year Press Release – Alice

  25. Moscow Times: The Romanovs – 15mns of Fame

  26. Cinelinx: Review – Alice scores a 8/10

  27. Cinelinx: Review – The Tsarevich scores a 9/10

  28. The Examiner: A true story of Russian Civil War inspires “The Tsarevich”

  29. Flickering Myth: From Wonderland to Russia: Interview with Geoffroy

  30. LazyDog Films: Interview with Geoffroy Faugérolas

  31. LazyDog Films: The Tsarevich scores a 3.5 stars

  32. LazyDog Films: Alice scores a 4 stars

  33. Huffington Post – My Only Son

  34. Rizzar – My Only Son

  35. The Georgetown Dish – My Only Son

  36. Broadway World – My Only Son