Biographie
French-born Hervé Renoh is a multicultural, multilingual writer and director working in Paris, Montreal and Los Angeles. After shooting multiple award-winning short films, TV movies, scripted TV series episodes and commercials in France, he wrote and directed the theatrical feature films Requiem and Coursier. The latter was internationally released as Paris Express.
Produced by Mars Films and Fidelity Productions, the action thriller Requiem was released over a hundred screens in France then across 35 countries in Europe, South America, and Asia. It was selected at the Sitges International Film Festival, Fantastica Film Festival de Bruxelles and Mauvais Genre Film Festival in La Réunion.
His second feature, action comedy Coursier (international title: Paris Express) was produced by Luc Besson's Europacorp (producers of Lucy, the Transporter and Taken franchises, and Valerian). It reached N°8 at the national box office the week of its release over three hundred screens in France and was selected at the Singapore Film Festival to represent France.
Hervé Renoh's films have been released across the globe in over 50 countries and Coursier landed N°6 at the Chinese national box office, making it one of the only two European productions to reach China's Top 10 and one of the 20 most internationally profitable French theatrical feature films of 2011-2012 according to Ecran Total.
Hervé Renoh then went on to shoot Jack of Diamonds, an English-language feature-length pilot episode for an international television series produced by Muse Entertainment (USA/Canada) Gaumont (France) and ZDF (Germany). This pilot was selected at the 26th Canadian Gemini Awards for best writing in a dramatic television series. This success landed him a U.S. representation at Paradigm Agency in los Angeles.
Since then, Hervé Renoh has helped pen the Chinese remake of Paris Express (Super Express) for the Chinese market with Fundamental Films, and developed a slate of TV and film projects in the U.S., Canada and France with Voltage Pictures, Coup d'Etat, Radar Films, Studio Canal, SND, M6 Films and 5656 Films, as well as with Terence Chang and John Woo's Lion Rock Productions, collaborating with internationally acclaimed directors such as Kim Jee-Woon and Fabrice Du Welz.
A prolific writer and director for scripted television series, he has shot over 30 episodes of major French TV shows, all aired to high ratings. In 2016, his episode of the hit French cop show Section de Recherches aired on France's leading network TF1 to the series highest ratings in five years, with over 7,3 million viewers. His latest TV show, a feature-length episode of France 3's popular Cassandre series, won the Grand Prize for Best French TV series at the 2017 Festival du Film de Cognac.
