Marc-Benoît has always been fascinated by cinema. But before realizing his dream, he took a few detours. Dancer at the Paris Opera, bellhop at the Hôtel Costes to finance his studies at FEMIS, aspiring actor and director… All these experiences instilled in him a taste for hard work and discipline. “ You need a bit of sacrifice for the result to have value, ” he says.

A film student at Paris Nanterre University, he completed a series of internships and realized that the profession he was most drawn to was that of a producer. It's a behind-the-scenes job often reduced to its purely financial aspect. Determined, Marc-Benoît enrolled at FEMIS and, as part of an internship at the production company Dharamsala, produced his first short film. " It's Free for Girls ," directed by Claire Burger and Marie Amachoukeli, won the César Award for Best Short Film in 2010. " This first success reinforced my confidence in my vision and made me realize that if I could do it for someone else, I could do it for myself, " he explains.

From shorts to feature films

After graduating in 2010, he founded Easy Tiger and started by producing short films. His goal: to build a gallery of talent, hoping they would have enough potential to move on to feature films. Before believing in a story, Marc-Benoît believes in encounters, vision, and the necessity of someone picking up a camera. " You have to have a gambler's spirit, and to win once, you have to have bet two or three times that were wrong ."

In 2016, after having produced a short film directed by Houda Benyamina, he put it right by producing his first feature film which won the Camera d'or at the Cannes and the César for best first film. Marc-Benoît then moved into the big leagues and gained credibility with agents, financiers, etc. He took advantage of this newfound notoriety and produced new feature films, including Magnetics by Vincent Cardona. Success is again on the agenda with a selection at the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes in 2021 and the César for best first film in 2022.
Today, Marc-Benoît exudes a quiet strength behind which his teams rely to journey, create and build films that offer a new vision and provoke, if the magic works, an emotion.