Samantha Pirard

Brought up with TV heroines that were as eccentric as cult, Samantha developed at a very early age an all-consuming passion for cinema and TV series. But her discovery of an alternative and international cinema was due to the programs of our ‘Movieman’’: Sélim Sasson. It presented her with an open window to the world… which makes a big change from her home in the Ardennes forest. After studying journalism at ULB, Samantha worked with various media, covering the BIFFF in the early 2000s. Currently a member of the UCC, she writes for Cinemaniacs.be, and runs her own website, Le Parfum des Mandarines, which is dedicated to current affairs, and the Korean cinema.