SteÌphane Elmadjian was born in Paris in 1966 and comes from a family of cinema- tographers. After secondary school he has worked as assistant editor. In 1985 he has taken part to the Lardux Films foundation, a kind of independent and homemade workshop. Apart from editing, he makes up shorts, videos, and documentaries. Some titles among his several and awarded films: Le Facteur Vent (1993), Notes sur les LumieÌ€res (1995), Visions panameÌennes (1998), Mushroom's Dam (1999), L'eÌcume des villes: Bordeaux (2001), La minute Bell: la fissure (2000), Je m'appelle (2002).