François Leloup-Collet

François Leloup-Collet is originally from Nanterre, in the outskirts of Paris and has made New York his home since 2006. Before coming to New York, he studied at Paris X-Nanterre University where he received his Masters Degree in International Law and at Burgundy Business School where he earned his MBA in Arts Administration.

While a student at Paris X-Nanterre University, he was president and film programmer for Etudions Gayment, a LGBT student association. His interest in film continues; and in the U.S., Leloup-Collet was intern in the Cinema department of the French Cultural Services in New York for 9 months where he took part in the organization of dozens of retrospectives and thematic festivals across the U. S.

He has recently moved to the other side of the camera lens appearing in the short film Manuelle Labor by independent filmmakers Marie Losier and Guy Maddin.

Leloup-Collet is currently Web Editor for Frenchculture.org, the website of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the USA where he is also an assistant in the Visual Art Department.