Belgian film director, screenwriter and actor.

Thibaut MONNIER is a director, screenwriter and actor.

He is known for WOZO (2021, Director/Writer/Main Actor).

Born in Mons (Belgium) in 1982, he studied written and audiovisual journalism at the Free University of Brussels and specialized in the field of journalistic reporting and editing by doing internships at the local television of Mons and then at the production company Four Corners in the Netherlands. In 2013, he was hired as a visual communication officer by the United Nations Development Program in Haiti, during which he was responsible for developing the image of the organization by producing video/photo reports of the projects of ground. He won the first prize for innovation awarded by the UN for reports highlighting the impact of innovative projects on the ground. Subsequently, his work was published at the Global Innovation Summit from November 14 to 16, 2015 in Montenegro. In view of the repeated failures of the UN in Haiti, he resigned at the end of 2015 in order to highlight a criticism of the excesses of the International Community in Haiti through the production of WOZO (2021), his first docu-fiction feature film.
For this film (he stars Boris, the main character), he won the Best Actor Award at 2022 FESTICAB (Burundi).


FILMOGRAPHY
(2021) WOZO /// First docu-fiction feature film /// Director/Writer/Actor (Main Role: Boris) /// Award: Best Actor Award at the 13th Burundi International Film and Audiovisual Festival (2022 FESTICAB)

Source :
https://eirenesuisse.ch/fr/agenda/cinedebat-wozo-24-mai-cinelux/
Translated from French and updated by Thierno Dia, on 13 Sep 2022.