Florent-Emilio Siri

 From Wikipedia Florent Emilio Siri is a French is a video game and film director and screenwriter born in Lorraine He studied cinema at the Sorbonne University and ESRA in Paris He began his feature film career with the 1998 social film Une minute de silence One minute of silence and continued in 2002 with the action film Nid de guêpes The Nest and then went on to serve as director of two critically acclaimed and highly successful Splinter Cell games at Frenchbased video game developer Ubisoft titled Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory Following the underground success of his first feature film Siris directorial style caught the eye of actor Bruce Willis who asked Siri to direct his bigbudget 2005 action thriller Hostage While not a big commercial success the film earned considerable critical praise of Siris slick direction calling it an art house version of the Die Hard films1 In 2007 he released a film called LEnnemi intime Intimate Enemies treating on the personal aspect and psychological effects on individual personalities of the Algerian War It was the first movie depicting the use of napalm by the French Army during the 19541962 conflict He wrote with Julien Rappeneau and made a film biopic titled My Way Cloclo about the French pop singer songwriter and dancer Claude François portrayed by Jérémie Renier It will be released in France in March 2012 Florent Siri is also a noted music video director particularly in his home country of France He has worked with such bands as IAM Expression Direkt Alliance Ethnik and WuTang Clan among others