Biography
A graduate of the FEMIS, the French national film school, Savin Yeatman-Eiffel is a writer, director and producer and the founder of the creative studio Sav! The World Productions.
Savin wears all three hats on the animated Sci-fi series Oban Star-Racers (2006) (26 half hours), which he wrote, produced and directed with Thomas Romain. An early and still rare case of co-production between Japan and France, the series was produced for the most part in Tokyo, where Savin and his team lived and worked for over three years with Japanese artists. The series aired in more than 120 countries worldwide, including the USA (ABC Family & ToonDisney) and Japan (NHK BS2 & Disney Channel). It won an Animeland Award and the Grand Prize for Entertainment at the Polymanga convention, and was also nominated for a BAFTA - the British Academy Awards.
For Sav! The World Productions, Savin also produced and directed TV commercials, short films (including Molly, Star-Racer (2001) - winner of a LEAF Award, nominated at the Imagina Awards; or Squat (1999)) and animations for company clients.
For other companies, Savin created animated series like The Magician (1999) and Molly, Star-Racer (2001) (Xilam), for which he was also the head writer, and wrote close to a hundred episodes for various animated shows. He also took part in a number of short films as writer (the stop motion animation special La peur du loup (2001) - Lutin Award winner), camera operator, producer or sound engineer (Dilan Mac Neal's NY, the Lost Civilization (1997) - Michael Moore Award at the Ann Arbor Festival).
A direct descendant of Gustave Eiffel and specialist of the famous engineer and scientist, Savin has contributed to a number of documentaries on his ancestor. For the centenary of his death, Savin developed and later directed with Mathieu Schwarz the documentary Eiffel, la guerre des tours (2023). It was one of the top 5 2023 November audiences of Franco-German channel ARTE. An alternative version of the documentary aired successfully on PBS under the name Eiffel's Race to the Top (2023). That same year, Savin was also the curator of the travelling exhibition "Eiffel - higher and higher", which began on the esplanade of the Eiffel tower in Paris in July.
