Nicolas Saada

Nicolas Saada born September 5 1965 is a French screenwriter director producer and journalist Saada is renowned for his radio show Nova fait son cinéma dedicated to film music which he hosted between 1993 and 2007 on Radio Nova in Paris He was also program director for Artes fiction unit between 1992 and 1998 alongside Pierre Chevalier and worked on over a hundred television films As a journalist for Cahiers du cinéma 19882000 he specialized for many years in American and Asian cinema In 1999 he cowrote his first screenplay for a film by Pierre Salvadori Les Marchands de sable This was followed by other collaborations with Arnaud Desplechin among others In 2004 he directed his first short film Les Parallèles which was nominated for a César Award for Best Short Film in 2005 Then in 2009 his first feature film Spys was released nominated the same year for the Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film and the following year for the César Award for Best First Film In 2012 he shot the short film Aujourdhui with Bérénice Bejo and in a brief appearance Frederick Wiseman In 2015 his second feature film Taj Mahal shot in India and starring young actress Stacy Martin was released The film was selected for the Telluride Venice and Ghent Film Festivals