Samuel Hadida Biography

Fast Facts

• In 2002, he won the Producer Award at the Valenciennes International Festival of Action and Adventure Films
• Won the "Maria" Honorary Award at the 2009 Sitges Film Festival
• He graduated from the University of Paris in 1978
• He and his brother Victor co-founded the Metropolitan Filmexport company, an independent distributor of English language pictures in France
• Began a long collaboration with writer and director Roger Avary when he produced Avary's directorial debut, "Killing Zoe․"
• Distributed the number one box-office hit in France in 1996, David Fincher's "Se7en․"
• He formed a production company called Davis Films in 1990 to focus on international projects