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Michiel Blanchart

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Michiel Blanchart
Born1993 (age 31–32)
Leuven, Belgium
Occupations
  • Director
  • writer
Years active2014–present

Michiel Blanchart (born 1993) is a Belgian film director and screenwriter.

Blanchart was born to a Walloon father and a Flemish mother. He completed his secondary education in France, where he obtained a literary baccalaureate. He later studied filmmaking at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD) in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.[1]

He made his feature-length directorial debut in 2024 with Night Call, a film set during a single night against the backdrop of a Black Lives Matter protest in Belgium. Blanchart co-wrote the film with Gilles Marchand. The film was well received by critics and won the André Cavens Award for Best Film from the Belgian Film Critics Association.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Michiel Blanchart pour son premier long-métrage 'La Nuit se traîne'" (in French). Radio France. 28 August 2024. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  2. ^ "Le Prix Cavens attribué ex aequo à 'La nuit se traîne' et 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat'". La Dernière Heure (in French). 19 December 2024. Retrieved 19 December 2024.
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