Jérémie Carboni

Jérémie Carboni (born December 28, 1980) is a French producer, film director, advisor and CEO.

Early life

Carboni was born in Châtenay-Malabry, he is the son of Jean-Michel Carboni (diplomat then senior executive and CEO at Engie) and Régine Rouffet-Rozenker (a classical pianist). The family lived in France, Greece, Hungary and also in Italy (for 6 years) where Carboni attended the Lycée français Chateaubriand in Rome. Then he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma and the Rome University of Fine Arts before graduating in cinema filmmaking in Paris. He also studied Political science.

Film career

Carboni began as a production assistant, assistant director and head of development for Stéphane Tchalgadjieff and Danièle Gégauff (Solaris S.A.), producers of film directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Jacques Rivette, Benoît Jacquot, Robert Bresson, Marguerite Duras, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar Wai, Steven Soderbergh, etc. Then, through its company Zerkalo production, he directed and produced commercials, music videos in particular for singers Dominique Fidanza and Cynthia Brown (singer) (from TV shows Star Academy and Popstars) before shooting in 2010 his first documentary Bartleby en coulisses, on famous writer Daniel Pennac. In 2013, he made a TV documentary on a story of electronic music with composers Jean Michel Jarre, Émilie Simon, Teho Teardo, Moriarty (band), François Bayle, etc. The film has been selected and screened in Paris on 19 June 2013 by ″MusiquePointDoc″ film festival of Parisian cultural institution : La Gaîté Lyrique before TV broadcasts. In 2016, he shot a film on French stylists Marithé et François Girbaud, inventors of skin-tight jeans, baggy trousers, Wattwash (laser) and the industrialization of Stone washing process. In 2019, he directed a tribute film on French writer Michel Déon, member of the Académie française and of literary movement named Les Hussards, born in the 1950s. Michel Déon, Jean d'Ormesson, Milan Kundera, Emmanuel Carrère, Xavier Darcos, Yves Boisset, Eric Neuhoff, Antoine Gallimard took part in this film.

Theatre career

In 2013, under the impetus of French writer Daniel Pennac, Carboni founded (with Laurent Natrella of the Comédie-française) and became the President of the Compagnie MIA.

Stage directions

• 2003 : Antigone : Jean Anouilh's play.
• 2019 : Monsieur Teste : reading of Paul Valéry's text. Actor-reader : Christian Gonon de la Comédie-Française.

Theatre productions (Compagnie MIA)

• 2012-15 : Journal d'un corps written by and performed by Daniel Pennac, directed by Clara Bauer (Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord / Théâtre du Rond-Point).
• 2014-15 : L'Oeil du loup (Eye Of the Wolf written by Daniel Pennac) with Malian actor Habib Dembélé, directed by Clara Bauer (theatre: Maison des Métallos).
• 2017-2019 : Un Amour exemplaire with Daniel Pennac, directed by Clara Bauer (Teatro Bellini, Naples).

Political & Business advisor

• Carboni also worked in politics as a communication and audio-visual advisor for République solidaire party founded by former Prime minister Dominique de Villepin, for centrist political party UDI Union of Democrats and Independents or Maliyéanbêdétayé, the Malian political mouvement of Habib Dembélé.
• In 2018, Carboni co-founded Efthia Consulting, a business and strategy consulting firm.

Personal life

• His father Jean-Michel Carboni, after serving as diplomat, was a CEO, senior executive and management committee member of Engie group, the French multinational of natural gas & electricity (turnover : €60,6 billion in 2018). In 2018, he is co-founder/Chairman of Efthia Consulting, a strategy and business consulting firm.
• His maternal grandparents, Jacques et Antoinette Rozenker, were stylists of French singers of the 60s and 70s (Sylvie Vartan, Julien Clerc, Johnny Hallyday, etc.) and creators of brands (Les Créations Sylvie Vartan, 30 Février, etc). They launched in particular French stylists Marithé et François Girbaud. His paternal grandfather Michel Carboni was a senior official, manager of Nice's customs.
• Relationship with Pierre-Bloch family. His cousin David Pierre-Bloch, producer and politician, is the grandson of Jean Pierre-Bloch who was a French resistant, activist and President of the LICRA (International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism) between 1968-1992.
• His mother was a classical pianist who won numerous awards from Nerini competition, Claude Kahn competition, etc.