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Francis Nielsen is a Director and Editor French born on 19 june 1947 at Annecy (France)

Francis Nielsen

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Birth name Francis Nielsen
Nationality France
Birth 19 june 1947 (77 years) at Annecy (France)

Francis Nielsen is a French director of animated films, known mostly for his films Blackie & Kanuto, Émilie Jolie and Le Chien, le Géneral et les Oiseaux.

Biography

Nielsen was born and raised in the mountainous region of Lake Annecy in eastern France. He began his career as a puppeteer presenting shows in local schools.

After a varied career, he joined the animation studio Idéfix (created by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, creators of the French comic and animated film series Asterix). He began his career at Idéfix as the First Assistant Director of Les 12 Travaux D'Asterix and La Ballade des Dalton.

Directing many animated commercials and TV series, he eventually became a producer in two different companies he created: Stout Studio and Rooster Studio.

He is currently director for several television series, specials and feature films. He became the first animated feature director to be in the Official Selection at the Venice International Film Festival with Le Chien...

Best films

Usually with

Henri Gruel
Henri Gruel
(1 films)
Michel Elias
Michel Elias
(3 films)
Morris
Morris
(1 films)
Marie Vincent
Marie Vincent
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Francis Nielsen (5 films)

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Director

Black to the Moon 3D, 1h23
Directed by Francis Nielsen
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Actors Peter Hudson, Vinnie Penna
Rating34% 1.707561.707561.707561.707561.70756
Blackie is a black sheep. She lives, flawed and proud, on a farm where she is famous for combining everything. But this is not enough for Blackie: the sheep gets into her head to want to go to the moon. And so the adventure has begun, an adventure where Blackie, accompanied by Kanuto, the sheepdog in love with the sheep, will meet many curious characters, as two birds known for the singing TV reality show from which they come, an opera-singing cow and a fashion designer wolf with a high level of fashion. Blackie wants to realize her goal, Kanuto doesn’t even want to hear about rockets.
Emilie Jolie, 1h12
Directed by Francis Nielsen
Origin France
Genres Musical theatre, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Witches in film, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Bernard Lanneau, Céline Monsarrat, Élie Semoun, Emmanuel Garijo, François-Xavier Demaison, Françoise Cadol
Rating56% 2.8242952.8242952.8242952.8242952.824295
C'est la veille de la rentrée et la petite Émilie Jolie s'inquiète à la perspective d'arriver dans sa nouvelle école. Pour lui changer les idées, sa mère lui offre un livre qu'elle-même lisait dans son enfance. Émilie, restée seule dans sa chambre, se plonge dans l'histoire de Gilbert le lapin bleu. Gilbert se fait enlever par une terrible sorcière et toutes les tentatives pour le retrouver restent vaines. Peu à peu l'histoire prend vie, et c'est Émilie elle-même, emmenée dans l'univers du livre par le grand oiseau, qui va devoir venir en aide à Gilbert.
The Dog, the General, and the Birds, 1h15
Directed by Francis Nielsen
Genres Animation
Themes Films about animals, Vieillesse, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Philippe Noiret, Michel Elias, François Jérosme, Marie Vincent
Rating62% 3.1383553.1383553.1383553.1383553.138355
Un jeune général russe a sacrifié les oiseaux pour brûler Moscou et sauver son pays envahi par Napoléon. Désormais à la retraite, il ne trouve pas le repos, hanté par le souvenir des oiseaux en flammes et attaqué chaque jour par tous les volatiles de Saint-Pétersbourg. Heureusement, le hasard met sur sa route un chien extraordinaire qui va transformer ses cauchemars en rêves magiques, pleins d’humour et de poésie. Il l’adopte et le nomme Bonaparte en souvenir de son vieil ennemi. Ensemble, ils vont mener une bataille originale mais délicate.
Butterscotch - The Perfume of the Invisible, 1h8
Directed by Francis Nielsen
Origin France
Genres Erotic, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Rating53% 2.6504652.6504652.6504652.6504652.650465
De France en Italie, du collège privé à la troupe de comédiens en passant par les clubs de strip-tease, suivez les aventures torrides de Miel, une jeune fille de bonne famille aux prises avec un homme invisible…

Editor

Lucky Luke: The Ballad of the Daltons, 1h22
Directed by René Goscinny, Henri Gruel, Morris
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Animation, Western
Themes Films about animals, Prison films, Films about dogs, Lucky Luke, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Pierre Trabaud, Daniel Ceccaldi, Georges Atlas, Roger Carel, Gérard Hernandez, Jacques Balutin
Roles Editor
Rating68% 3.4446353.4446353.4446353.4446353.444635
The story opens in a Western saloon, where a young musician with a banjo begins to tell a tale of Lucky Luke and his sworn enemies the Dalton brothers: Joe, William, Jack and Averell. Luke has, once again, as he has done many times before, thrown the four outlaws into jail. The prison is also the abode of a guard dog named Rin Tin Can (Rantanplan in the original French language version).