Olivier Paul Philippe is a French screenwriter, director, chief operator and producer.

Born in 1968 in the suburbs of Paris into a family of 6 children, he quickly distinguished himself from his family by showing an appetite for fine art, image and a taste for staging. Disc-jokey, radio host during adolescence, he studied journalism and was first hired on French national radio before trying his hand at satellite TV with TV5MONDE.

Beetween 1990 and 2008, Olivier P.Philippe becomes Great reporter, editor-in-chief and television news host. It is above all by directing shows on news events, then on the cultural world, that Olivier Philippe refined his talents as a director. He has also signed several documentaries like "Karnak and the Guardians of the Temple" (1998), "The Desert Marathon"(1998), "Shanghai, the Red Dragon" (1999) or "Sarajevo my Love" (1999).

During his career, he attended several dramatic events that will strongly influence his way of writing and carrying out, such as the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, the Tsunami in Thailand in 2004 or the eruption of the Eyjafjoll volcano. in Iceland in 2010. Each time, he is already on site while filming.

In 2002 he produced and hosted "SODA" a weekly cultural TV show of an unprecedented genre, which he conceived as a road movie in the streets of Paris. This 26mn every Saturday evening is very successful and attracts the biggest French and international stars. It lasted 6 seasons.

Just after Soda, in 2006, Olivier Paul Philippe moves away from journalism and creates his production company "SALT & PEPPER" with which he makes films for television and cinema. His meeting with the famous French chef Ciryl Lignac led him first to make many films and advertisements on the world of cooking. He also makes many films for the communication of big international groups like DIOR, GUERLAIN, NESTLÉ, LAFARGE, AXA, BNP-PARIBAS, SAINT GOBAIN, RENAULT or MICHELIN. He is particularly well known for short sponsored programs. He produced more than fifteen of them, including the mini series "Je te done ma part" (2014).

In 2016, Olivier Paul Philippe wrote, produced and directed "Carma", starring Nathalie Franceschi, Audrey Pirault and Patrice Guillain. The film is about a former Mossad agent converted into a very special Call Girl. The kind you call generally not to fulfill a fantasy, but to complete a mission that would definitely not be given to the police. Carma tells how the best agent ever could be trapped by herself in very special circumstances. The film won several awards in Europe and USA.

Back to his basics, in 2018 and 2019 he made several documentaries for television, including "La nature a son chef" for Seasons channel, and "Fontainebleau, a royal megastructure", for RMC Découverte.

He is preparing the production of several documentaries about cooking in France and in Israel and is actually writing a series based on Carma's character. He also follow up the scenario of his first feature film on hypermnesia.

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Olivier P Philippe

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