French Producer.

For the past 15 years, François BERTRAND has run Camera Lucida, an independent production company whose objective is to produce documentary films, short-films and feature-length movies in collaboration with authors, directors and artists. There is no predefined editorial line, but a strong desire to focus on new forms and define new ways of working creatively. He is now one of five producers working for Camera Lucida.

His productions focus on cultural themes and he has created important links with various art institutions, from Arte France and Stan Neumann's "La vie cachée des œuvres" and "Photo" collections - jointly produced with the Louvre and the Centre Pompidou respectively - to "Un automne musicale à Versailles" by Olivier Simonnet, jointly produced with the Chateau of Versailles and the CMBV (Versailles Baroque music center). He has produced the latest films by Peter Knapp for France Télévision - the "devices which have seen you" collection and the film "Van Gogh, derniers jours à Auvers"

In cinema, he has produced and directed "Van Gogh: Brush with Genius", the first Imax® film about art, in partnership with the Musée d'Orsay and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The film has won several major prizes, including Best Film at the GSCA (Giant screen cinema association) awards, won for the first time by a European producer.

This year he has also produced, jointly with Adeline Lecallier and Lazennec & Associés, "Nuit Bleue", the first fiction film by Ange Leccia, as well as the first documentary film by Claude Miller, "Marching band", jointly with Annie Miller and Films de la Boissière.

Movies produced for Camera Lucida
"The Final Frontier" - 2011 - HDCam - 52' minutes
"Pompallier, The Finished Odyssey" - 2004 - Digital Betacam - 52' minutes
"Saint Helen 1821" - 1999 - Digital Betacam - 52' minutes
"Van Gogh : Brush with Genius" - 2008 - Imax - 40' minutes
"The White Building" - 2006 - HDCam - 52' minutes
"Mallet Stevens, A New Vision of the Architect" - 2003 - HDCam - 52' minutes
"Blue Night" - 2011 - HDCam - 90' minutes
"Two Centuries of Music in Versailles, The Keys to a Kingdom" - 2007 - HDCam - 90' minutes
"An Angel Passes, An Artistic Vision of Opera" - 2006 - Digital Betacam - 26' minutes
"La Capricciosa Corretta" - 2005 - HDCam - 52' minutes
"Recording Vivaldi Uptown" - 2002 - Digital Betacam - 52' minutes
"25 days before Julius Caesar" - 1999 - Digital Betacam - 52' minutes
"Marc-Antoine Charpentier, A Musical Autumn at Versailles" - 2005 - HDCam - 120' minutes
"Skip Sempé, One Day in Versailles" - 2005 - Digital Betacam - 26' minutes
"TIC TOC CHOC, Tharaud Plays Couperin" - 2007 - HDCam - 2' minutes
"Portrait of an Artist : Christophe Rousset, Harpsichordist and Conductor" - 2005 - Digital Betacam - 26' minutes
"Portrait of an Artist : Le Quatuor Psophos" - 2005 - Digital Betacam - 26' minutes
"Hérodiate by Massenet" - 2001 - HDCam - 52' minutes
"Portrait of an Artist : Bruno Fontaine" - 2005 - Digital Betacam - 26' minutes
"Preludes n°4, Alexandre Tharaud plays Chopin" - 2009 - HDCam - 2' minutes
"Paul Agnew, The Mirror" - 2006 - HDCam - 26' minutes
"Festival in the Desert" - 2004 - HDCam - 52' minutes
"Bashung(s)" - 2004 - Digital Betacam - 52' minutes
"Electronic Performers - AIR" - 2003 - HDCam - 35' minutes
"7 Women in the Lands of Wim Vandekeybus" - 2001 - Digital Betacam - 52' minutes
"David Daniels and the King's Violins" - 2003 - HDCam - 85' minutes
"Jean-Marie Leclair with the Duc de Gramont" - 2005 - Digital Betacam - 120' minutes
"Lyra d'Orfeo, Luigi Rossi at the Court of Anne of Austria " - 2004 - HDCam - 74' minutes
"Haydn's Creation" - 2005 - HDCam - 106' minutes
"Mozart's Vespers" - 2002 - Digital Betacam - 90' minutes
"Conatus : Amidsummernightdream" - 2008 - HDCam - 18' minutes
"The Constellation of Things" - 2009 - Digital Betacam - 59' minutes
"The Irrationality of the Louvre" - 2006 - HDCam - 15' minutes
"Great Expectations" - 2005 - HDCam - 17' minutes
"Head" - 2005 - Digital Betacam - 8' minutes
"The Fickleness of the Butterfly" - 2004 - Court Métrage - 30' minutes
"Malus" - 2004 - Digital Betacam - 22' minutes
"Antigona under Hypnosis" - 2004 - Data - 15' minutes
"Atomic Park " - 2005 - 35mm - 8' minutes
"Gold" - 2001 - Digital Betacam - 40' minutes
"Aze" - 2002 - 35mm - 70' minutes
"Island of Beauty " - 1999 - 35mm - 70' minutes
"The Strange Migration of the Homoaquaphilus" - 1996 - Digital Betacam - 20' minutes
"Marching Band" - 2009 - HDCam - 90' minutes
"Noreturn" - 2009 - Digital Betacam - 20' minutes
"The hidden life of masterworks / collection" - 2012 - HDCam - 6 x 43'/52' minutes
"Vincent van Gogh, Last days in Auvers" - 2005 - 52' - 52' minutes
"The Pastoral of Christmas by Marc-Antoine Charpentier" - 2005 - HDCam - 43' - 90' minutes
"Médée by Marc-Antoine Charpentier" - 2004 - Autre format - 73' minutes
"Deeper" - 2011 - 26' - 26 & 52' minutes
"PHOTO" - 26' - 12 x 26' minutes
"L'amour Louvre" - 2012 - HDCam - 12' minutes
"Belle comme le jour" - 2012 - Data HD - 12' minutes
"The City of Music" - 2007 - Autre format - 43x10' minutes
"The secret canyon" - 2014 - 3D - 40' minutes
"" - 2015 - 26' - 26 minutes
"Soul gardens - le Père Lachaise (Paris)" - Data HD - 52'/43' minutes

Movies in production for Camera Lucida
"Leonardo da Vinci 3D" - 12/2013 - Imax - 40' minutes
"" - 26' - 26 minutes
"" - 26' - 26 minutes
"" - Autre format
"Art challenge - The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin" - 52' - 52 minutes
"" - 26' - 26 minutes
"" - 26' - 26 minutes
"" - 26' - 26 minutes
"" - 26' - 26 minutes
"Live Art" - Autre format - 8x26 minutes