Alain de Halleux

Alain de Halleux (born October 21, 1957) is a Belgian film director, producer, photographer and screenwriter.[1][2] His films predominantly focus on the topics of environmental, social, financial, economic and political issues such as Brexit.[3]

Alain de Halleux
Born21 October, 1957
Brussels, Belgium
NationalityBelgian
EducationUniversité catholique de Louvain (BSc) INSAS - Institut national supérieur des arts du spectacle et des techniques de diffusion (BA)
OccupationFilm director, screenwriter, film producer, author
Years active1991 - present
Children4
Websitehttps://www.alaindehalleux.com/

Early life and career

Alain de Halleux was born on 21 October 1957 in Brussels, Belgium. He received a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Sciences (Nuclear) at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) in 1978. During his studies at UCL he viewed Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky ’s Mirror, which inspired him to study cinema. de Halleux went on to study cinema at l’INSAS, Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle et des Techniques de Diffusion.[4] During his time there he studied the work of Kurosawa such as Dreams and Seven Samurai. After obtaining an INSAS qualification in film directing de Halleux created his film production company Indian Production, choosing the name in order to honor indigenous peoples’ respect for nature and the Earth.

de Halleux has worked in photojournalism and on his return to Paris from a work related trip he met documentary filmmaker Raymond Depardon. He has cited this meeting as having a great impact on his work.

Filmmaking

Alain de Halleux started his film career working on fiction, later choosing to focus on documentary filmmaking. His 2000 film Pleure pas Germaine (Don't Cry Germaine), a feature-length film about a family of Spanish migrants returning to their country, screened at the Festroia International Film Festival.[5][6]

Documentary films

de Halleux's documentary film work predominantly focuses on environmental, social, financial, economic and political issues. His 2008 film, R.A.S nucléaire rien à signaler, looked at the effects of outsourcing nuclear plant maintenance on our safety since the privatisation of the electricity markets and was the first in a series of documentaries about nuclear power. Initially released to little fanfare, the film received wider attention when it screened on the Franco-German network Arte.[7]

He went on to direct Chernobyl 4 ever in 2011, in response to his realisation that the post-nuclear disaster situation was far more complex than it appeared.[8] During a screening of the film at the European Parliament de Halleux met a young Japanese researcher who was struggling to save his hometown after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. His entreaty for de Halleux to make a documentary film led to the creation of the short film Les Recits de Fukushima (Stories from Fukushima), which released in October 2011. de Halleux continued filming and completed an expanded version in March 2013, Welcome to Fukushima. It premiered at the European Parliament on the second anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.[9][10] During the making of Welcome to Fukushima, de Halleux met Tarō Yamamoto, a former actor and surfer turned politician. de Halleux would go on to follow Yamamoto from 2013 until 2018, forming the 2018 documentary Beyond the Waves.[11] The film focuses on Yamamoto's experiences as a member of the House of Councillors as well as contemporary politics, nationalism, xenophobia and rearmament in Japan.[12][13]

de Halleux went on to release La Faute A Personne (No One to Blame) in 2016, a documentary film about the various significant events that led to the collapse of DEXIA bank after the financial crisis.[14] In 2019, de Halleux released The Clock Is Ticking. The film follows Michel Barnier, the chief EU negotiator of Brexit, tracing the various stages of the discussions that led to the agreement, still awaiting ratification, on the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union.[3]

Filmography
YearFilmProducers
2019The Clock Is Ticking (90')(ARTE, RTBF, VRT, NHK and many others TV channels)
2018Beyond the Waves (60')[15](RTBF, VRT, various cinema in Japan)
2016La Faute A Personne (52')(France 5, RTBF)
2013Welcome to Fukushima (60')(RTBF, VRT)
2011Les Recits de Fukushima (8x8')(Arte)
2010Chernobyl 4 ever (60')(ARTE, RTBF, VRT, NHK…)
2008R.A.S (60')(ARTE, RTBF, VRT)
2006Ou tu vas DOCUMENTAIRE DE (40')(ULB)
2004Anishnabe (26’)DOCU POUR (ARTE)
2003Barrieres (6')(RTBF)
1998La trace (60’)DOCUMENTAIRE RTBF/VRT
1995Fanny se fait un sang d' encre (90’)FEATURE RTBF/FR2°
1991Ces droles de belges avec leurs droles de films (52’)

References
  1. "Alain de Halleux". Alain de Halleux. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  2. "Alain de Halleux". Film-documentaire.fr. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  3. "BREXIT: THE CLOCK IS TICKING, Alain de Halleux". Point du Jour International. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
  4. "Allain de Halleux". Dafilms. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  5. Cockrell, Eddie (2000-09-25). "Don't Cry Germaine". Variety. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  6. "PLEURE PAS GERMAINE Film belge d'Alain de Halleux". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2001-07-25. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
  7. Ahn, Joonhong; Guarnieri, Franck; Furuta, Kazuo (2017-08-15). "What Cultural Objects Say About Nuclear Accidents and Their Way of Depicting a Controversial Industry". Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety: From Accident Mitigation to Resilient Society Facing Extreme Situations. Springer. p. 151. ISBN 978-3-319-58768-4.
  8. "Chernobyl (4) Ever". Greens/EFA. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  9. "Welcome to Fukushima". Simple Production. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  10. "Récits de Fukushima : Interview du réalisateur, Alain de Halleux / Vidéo". RTBF TV (in French). 2012-03-07. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  11. "De Japanse Don Quichot die tegen kernwapens vecht". De Tijd (in Dutch). 2018-02-27. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  12. "Beyond the Waves". Flagey. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  13. "Beyond the Waves". Sophimages. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  14. "Eco Matin - Dexia, la faute à personne". La Première (in French). 2016-09-12. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  15. "Beyond The Waves de Alain de Halleux". Cinergie.be. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
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