Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo

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| name = Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo

| image = Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, October 2011.png

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| caption = Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo in 2011

| birth_name = 10 March

| birth_date = 1975; age 43-44 (Bustillo)
1978; age 40-41 (Maury)

| birth_place = Saint-Cloud, France (Bustillo)
Paris, France (Maury)

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| occupation = Filmmakers

| years_active = 2007–present

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Julien Maury (born 1978 in Paris) and Alexandre Bustillo (born 1975 in Saint-Cloud, France) are French filmmakers{{cite web|url=http://strasbourgfestival.com/2011/en/2011/08/11/livide|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120717114226/http://strasbourgfestival.com/2011/en/2011/08/11/livide|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-17|title=Festival Européen du Film Fantastique de Strasbourg}} who work together on their projects. They are known for their work in the horror genre, and list their influences as Dario Argento, Roman Polanski, Clive Barker and John Carpenter.{{cite web|url=http://totalscifionline.com/interviews/4083-julien-maury-inside-man|title=Julien Maury: Inside Man|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101202092826/http://totalscifionline.com/interviews/4083-julien-maury-inside-man|archivedate=2010-12-02}}{{Cite web|url=http://twitchfilm.com/interviews/2007/12/40th-sitges-a-blood-soaked-interview-with-the-inside-a-linterieur-directors.php|title=A Blood Soaked Interview with the Inside (À L'Intérieur) Directors|access-date=2011-01-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524021059/http://twitchfilm.com/interviews/2007/12/40th-sitges-a-blood-soaked-interview-with-the-inside-a-linterieur-directors.php|archive-date=2011-05-24|url-status=dead}}

Life and career

Julien Maury graduated from l’École Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle. He worked for French television before directing documentaries, music videos and short films. Alexandre Bustillo graduated from Université Paris XIII with an M.A. in cinema,{{cite web|url=http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2011/livid |title=tiff.net - 2011 films - Livid |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023221804/http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2011/livid |archivedate=2011-10-23 }} before working as a journalist for several magazines including Mad Movies.{{cite web | url =http://evene.lefigaro.fr/celebre/biographie/alexandre-bustillo-30222.php | title =Biographie d'Alexandre Bustillo |author= | website =evene.lefigaro.fr | publisher =Société du Figaro | access-date =September 3, 2021}} The two met each other through a mutual friend.{{cite web|url=http://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/interview-julien-maury|title=Interview: Julien Maury}}

Their first film was Inside, a controversial horror film about a pregnant woman stalked by a madwoman who wants her child for herself. Both men co-directed and Bustillo wrote the script. The film was cited as an example of the new wave of French horror films and was a critical success that brought international attention on Maury and Bustillo.{{citation needed|date=September 2017}}

After the success of Inside, Maury and Bustillo were attached to at separate times to Halloween II, the sequel to Rob Zombie's remake of John Carpenter's Halloween as well as the remake for Clive Barker's Hellraiser. In both cases, they left the project.{{citation needed|date=September 2017}}

Their subsequent film Livid was released 2011. The film was initially intended to be Bustillo and Maury's English-language debut and shot in the United Kingdom but they moved to a lower-budget French production after they found that they were losing creative control over their story.{{cite web|url=http://asberman.wordpress.com/2012/04/06/from-the-vault-livide-interview-with-julien-maury/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121211050709/http://asberman.wordpress.com/2012/04/06/from-the-vault-livide-interview-with-julien-maury/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-12-11 |title=From the Vault: 'Livide' Interview with Julien Maury }}

Filmography

=Feature films=

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rowspan="2" \| Year ! rowspan="2" scope="col" style="width: 225px;" \| Title ! colspan="2" \| Credited as ! rowspan="2" \| Notes
style="width:10em; font-size:90%" \| Directors ! style="width:10em; font-size:90%" \| Writers
2007 \| Inside \| {{Yes}} \| {{Yes}} \|Won the "Carnet Jove Jury Award", the "Citizen Kane Award for Best Directorial Revelation" and the "Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver" at the Sitges Film Festival
2011 \| Livid \| {{Yes}} \| {{Yes}} \|
2014 \| Among the Living \| {{Yes}} \| {{Yes}} \|
2016 \| Inside \| {{No}} \| {{partial\|Original writers}} \|
2017 \| Leatherface \| {{Yes}} \| {{No}} \|
2020 \| Kandisha \| {{Yes}} \| {{Yes}} \|
2021 \| The Deep House \| {{Yes}} \| {{Yes}} \|
2024 \| The Soul Eater \| {{Yes}} \| {{No}} \|

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2007

| Inside

| {{Yes}}

|Won the "Carnet Jove Jury Award", the "Citizen Kane Award for Best Directorial Revelation" and the "Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver" at the Sitges Film Festival

2011

| Livid

| {{Yes}}

2014

| Among the Living

| {{Yes}}

2016

| Inside

| {{No}}

| {{partial|Original writers}}

2017

| Leatherface

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

2020

| Kandisha

| {{Yes}}

2021

| The Deep House

| {{Yes}}

2024

| The Soul Eater

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

=Short films=

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2003 \| Pizza Hunt \| {{Yes}} \| {{Yes}} \|Maury only; also credited as cinematographer and producer
2005 \| Pedro's Adventures \| {{Yes}} \| {{Yes}} \|Maury only; also credited as cinematographer and producer
2014 \| X Is for Xylophone \| {{Yes}} \| {{Yes}} \|Segment from ABCs of Death 2

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2003

| Pizza Hunt

| {{Yes}}

|Maury only; also credited as cinematographer and producer

2005