Franck Khalfoun

Franck In Khalfoun ( born March 9, 1968 in Paris, Ile -de -France ) is a French- Algerian film director and actor.

Life

Khalfoun was born to an Algerian father and a French in Paris. In his hometown, he began early in a career in show business as a dancer at a Parisian theater.

Film career

His debut in the film industry were Khalfoun 1992 when he The law of the Mafia was involved as assistant director Alexandre Arcadys crime thriller and the film took on a small role. 1994 was followed by another supporting role in the French Canal television production The Eagle and the Horse.

His first leading role was Khalfoun 2003 Olias Barco's sports drama snowboarders as X. In the same year the role of Jimmy in the French thriller High Tension. The film's director is Alexandre Aja, the son of Alexandre Arcady. During the filming Khalfoun befriended with Aja and Grégory Levasseur its producers. They offered Khalfoun, which directed the thriller P2 - to take over screams in the park ( 2006), together with Levasseur he also wrote the screenplay.

2007 entered Khalfoun and Aja from France to the United States to Los Angeles, where Khalfoun founded the Independent Theatre Godot 's Hideaway.

Two years later left Khalfoun Los Angeles again and moved to New York City, where he founded a production company for commercials and music videos. With his production company he created as a photographer various album covers, among others, for Busta Rhymes and Erick Sermon.

The end of 2009 Khalfoun then returned for the second time in the director's chair back and staged with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Harvey Keitel the crime thriller movie Wrong Turn at Tahoe.

After Alexandre Aja got the offer from Dimension Films to take over the government in the remake of Joe Dante's Piranha, he was casting for the role of Deputy Khalfoun Green.

17 August 2011 Khalfoun was hired by Warner Bros. to direct the film in the horror film Alexandre Aja Maniac.