Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis was born in France in 1988 and graduated from INSAS (Belgium) in editing, from Sint-Lukas Art School (Belgium) in filmmaking and from Le Fresnoy (France). Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis explores a cinema beyond the boundaries of genres. His films question memory, virtual, technology and the intermediate spaces between the worlds and between the words. He was known as a filmmaker with his film Dark Waves which has been shown in many international festivals, such as the IDFA, the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, and Regensburg Short Film Festival etc. The film has also received numerous awards, including the Grand Prix and the Youth Jury Prize at the Regensburg Festival.
Ismael is also a film editor. He currently lives and works in Paris.
