What to say in front of the horror of your death. You were the youth, the beauty, the future, the work, the passion, the rage to live. You had a love for cinema since your teenage years.
Twenty years ago, one day in September 2001, you pushed open the door of the CDI at the Jean Macé college where I was a librarian. Feeling your taste for cinematographic culture, I proposed to you to be a member of the Young Jury. Subsequently I have always encouraged you in your path. I introduced you to all the great directors who came to Vesoul including Hou Hsiao-hsien in 2006. Since 2010, we went together to the Cannes Film Festival.
You did your cinema studies, you took courses to be an actor. You set up your own production house “Osprod”, then you got into distribution. We had a common project to distribute the Filipino film “John Denver Trending” by Arden Rod Condez, jury, critic and audience prize at the 26th FICA Vesoul 2020, with the support of the Rectorate of Bourgogne Franche-Comté and the CLEMI of National Education.
You had just made your fifth short film, “Metronome”, the most successful. You had projects in your head, and you put all your energy into carrying them out: reviving the vines of La Motte with the help of your father Jean-Michel and your brother Franck. You had the project to start a family with Marie. Everything that is the spice of life. You were involved in many associations (Rêves, Vesulum, FICA, …). You had multiple passions, dancing, motorcycling, and the one that will be fatal to you: the plane …
You were the technical director of the International Festival of Asian Cinemas in Vesoul. It is thanks to your professionalism that the opening and closing ceremonies and the two hundred screenings of each edition were so successful.
We love you like a son and we mourn you like a son.
Rest in peace in our hearts and in this land of Haute-Saone that you loved so much.
Martine and Jean-Marc Thérouanne
