Michel Noll (born 10 May 1949) is a French television director and producer.
Born in
Cologne
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in
Germany
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, Noll has lived in France for more than 40 years. After reading Economics and Sociology at the
University of Cologne
The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...
in Germany, he became a producer/director of television programmes when, in 1977, he joined TELECIP in Paris, then the leading French independent production company.
In 1982, he was asked to launch Revcom Television as the independent television arm of French publishing group '
Éditions Mondiales', which he quickly turned into one of the most successful and international of French production companies, with subsidiaries in Germany, the United Kingdom and Australia.
In 1987, he launched his own production house Quartier Latin, specialising in children's programs and documentaries.
In 1995, he acquired the well-established distribution company ICTV, which specialised in documentary films covering current affairs and social issues.
Since the year 2000, he started to move away from television into the movie industry, producing and/or directing several feature documentaries.
He is the curator of four documentary film festivals and their associated cinema clubs:
Les Ecrans de Chine (
China Screen
China Screen is an annual independent Chinese documentary film festival organized by "Les Écrans des Mondes," a non-profit organization founded in 2007 in Paris. Known in France as "Les Écrans de Chine," the festival was set up to promote dialog ...
),
Focus Corée
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Arts
* Focus or Focus Festival, former name of the Adelaide Fringe arts festival in South Australia Film
*''Focus'', a 1962 TV film starring James Whitmore
* ''Focus'' (2001 film), a 2001 film based ...
(Focus on Korea),
Docs d'Afrique Docs may refer to:
* Department of Community Services
* Display Operator Console System, DOCS (software) package
* Docs.com
* Colloquial term for Dr. Martens footwear.
* Google Docs
See also
* DOC (disambiguation)
DOC, Doc, doc or DoC may refer ...
(African Documentaries) and
GrecDoc (Greek Documentaries). With his not-for-profit association Ecrans des Mondes, he also co-organizes the documentary festival ''Beyond Borders'' in
Kastellorizo
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.
He is married to Anglo-Irish author and actress
Carol Drinkwater
Carol Drinkwater (born 22 April 1948) is a British actress, writer and filmmaker residing in France. She portrayed Helen Herriot (née Alderson) in the television adaptation of the James Herriot books '' All Creatures Great and Small'', which l ...
.
References
External links
ICTV.fr documentary film distributors''Ecrans Des Mondes'' Documentary Film Festivals
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Living people
1949 births
French documentary filmmakers
Mass media people from Paris
Film people from Cologne
German emigrants to France