Carole Bienaimé


Carole Bienaimé, is a French producer and a director. She is managing director of the production company and advisory firm, April Snow Films & Capital. Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, she was a board member of the Fund Compte de Soutien de l'Industrie de Programmes Audiovisuels at Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée. She was also Vice-President of major Producers Guild in France and board member of French Producers Society.

Overview

Carole Bienaimé has 15 years of experience in the international Entertainment industry and fundraising. Since 1998 she has been involved in many international productions. Since 2007, besides her Producer & CIO position in April Snow Films & Capital, Carole Bienaimé serves as board member of COSIP Fund at the Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée – the French public organisation part of the French Ministry of Culture that invests in Feature Films and TV Programmes. Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, Minister of Culture at that time, named her member of the board of the fund.
Producer, advisor for international productions and coproductions, and financing expert, she was invited in 2010 by The Financial Times, to be part, as speaker, of the FT Business of Film Summit in Doha, Qatar, with other producers such as Harvey Weinstein, Bill Mechanic, Jeremy Thomas, Mark Gordon, etc.
Beside all that, from February 2012 to January 2014 she was board member and Vice President at the French Producers Guild: USPA. Since March 2012, she's also a regular columnist on Le Huffington Post. The Editor in chief of the French version of The Huffington Post is managed by Anne Sinclair.
Previously in 2007 Carole Bienaimé was managing director and Producer at Elemiah, the production company of Yamina Benguigui and Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière part of FIMALAC Group. In 2006 she became shareholder of B Pop LLP, the production company of Malcolm McLaren, the same year Fast Food Nation by Richard Linklater, a feature film based on the novel of Eric Schlosser, produced by Malcolm Maclaren and Jeremy Thomas was selected by Festival de Cannes to be part of the official competition. Before that, in 2004, she co-founded Productions Campagne Première, an international documentary films production company with Martin Meissonnier. Prior to this, in 2000 she was Head of fundraising & communications of Jacques Attali's international financing institution, PlaNet Finance, for which she also served as active Board member.
Carole Bienaimé established her career in 1998 in the film industry working as Production Manager at Productions Phares & Balises and with producer Marco Cherqui.
Since July 2010 Carole Bienaimé is Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts & des Lettres which is a French cultural honor from French Ministry of Culture, for people of artistic or literary creation or for the contribution they have made to the spread of arts and letters in France and the world. Carole has a master's degree in Law and International Relations and a MBA in Economics.

Filmography

Feature films

2012: Heart of Blackness by Valérie Tong-Cuong and Isabelle Boni-Claverie with Danny Glover, based on the novel Où je Suis by Valérie Tong-Cuong published by Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle

2006 : special advisor of Malcolm McLaren producer of Fast Food Nation a film by Richard Linklater, based on the novel of Eric Schlosser. Official competition at Festival de Cannes.

Documentary films

2013 : Abraham Lincoln, the roads to Freedom by Carole Bienaimé

2012 : Label & Life, a documentary TV series about creation with Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Karl Lagerfeld, Jean-Paul Gaultier, etc. by David Carr-Brown, Carole Bienaimé and Alain Teulère

2008 : The Real Joan of Arc by Martin Meissonnier

2007 : Henri Leclerc au Nom de L'Homme, by Rémi Lainé, Empreintes

2007: Taking on Chanel by Bren Simson

2004 : On God's Right by Martin Meissonnier

2000 : Fous d'Opéra by Elizabeth Aubert

2000 : All about E.U. ? / Mein Gott Europa by Nick Fraser and Ben Lewis
2000 : Have you seen Jesus? by Alix de Saint-André and Bernard Cazedepats
1999 : Histoires d'en Sortir by Didier Lannoy

1998 : Journey to the Far Right by Nick Fraser and Christian Poveda
1998 : Le Saint-Suaire by Didier Lannoy
1998 : Édouard Boubat by Itaka Schlubach
1998 : Fashion : passion, sex and rebellion by Jaci Judelson and Gideon Koppel

TV Fictions

2007 : Aïcha by Yamina Benguigui

Music Videos

2000: 1,2,3 Soleils by Don't Kent

1999: Rodolphe Burger / Unlimited marriage II by Jacques Audiard

1999: Kenza, by Claude Santiago with Khaled

1999: Femi Kuti / Beng Beng Beng by Yves Buclet

1999: Liberté de Circulation / GISTI / Les petits papiers by Jacques Audiard

1998: Alain Bashung / Sommes-nous by Jacques Audiard

1998: Alain Bashung / La nuit je mens by Jacques Audiard, Best music video at Victoire de la musique in 1999

1998 : Johnny Hallyday / Debout by Xavier Durringer