Benoit Dervaux

Born in 1966 in Belgium, Benoît Dervaux is graduated in 1990 from the Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD) in Louvain-La-Neuve. He began his career as an assistant camera, cameraman or director of photography on several film documentaries. Very quickly integrated into the Strip-tease teams (RTBF and France 3), he leaves for Romania to follow street children. This is how "Gigi and Monica", his first documentary, was born in 1996. He was then noticed by the Dardenne brothers who offered him to be a cameraman for "La Promesse". Since then, he has directed the potography for all their fictions: "Rosetta" (1999), "Le Fils" (2002), "L'Enfant" (2005), "Le Silence de Lorna" (2008), "Le Gamin au vélo" (2011), "Deux jours, une nuit" (2014). In the meantime, he is pursuing his own documentary work and now teaches film at the IAD.