Biography

Robin Entreinger was born in 1980 in the south of France. Being the son of a cinema manager in a small city, he spent time in the projection booth and gathered film knowledge. After passing the A-levels, he began pursuit of a film-making degree, where he learned about being cameraman and cinematographer. To make rent while studying, Robin worked as a projectionist. In 2001 he moved to Lyons where he worked as a projectionist for Pathé, also as a cameraman and cinematographer on corporate films or short films. In 2007, he worked as a cameraman on a feature film shot around Lyons. This is when he decided to buy a camera and start directing. During the summer of 2011 he shot his first feature film, Victims, on a tiny budget. At a screening at the Cannes Film Market, the direction of the Strasbourg Fantastic Film Festival decides to have a competition screening. Victims received very good reviews and genre magazines will went on to promote it (Mad Movies, l'Ecran Fantastique). In the meantime, Robin had already shot his second film, a horror comedy: Sadik 2. Sadik 2 would be screened at the 2013 FrightFest, London's horror film festival, and then at the Razor Reel fantastic film festival in Belgium. In 2013, he temporarily gave up horror and made Eta Carinae, a drama which concentrates on grief and the link between men and the cosmos. Eta Carinae will be released in France in 2019. In January 2014 he shot Dreamland. Set in Japan, it tells the story of a lonely photographer who deals with panic attacks. The film is a mix of drama, romance and thrilled, and stars the Japanese actress Hyunri. The film was screened at two independent film festivals during 2015, both is the U.S. During the summer of 2014, he co-directed the horror movie Abduction 101 with Steve Noir (the film is now available on VOD platforms). In 2015, he shot a documentary on French whiskies, and then got back to genre cinema by shooting The Darkest in 2016, a fantastic film in which night and darkness have a major part. That same year, he also shot his first short film, We Kill Everything, in Japan, with actor Valentin Bonhomme, who played in all his films, and the Japanese actress Rumiko Kimishima. In 2017, Robin went back to Tokyo accompanied by two French actresses, Chloé Imbroglio and Claire Suchet (The Darkest) to shoot Shibari, his second short film. In 2018, he shot his new feature film in Portland, Oregon USA: Troubles.

Director / producer - Feature films Victims - 2011 (theatrically released in France in September 2018) Sadik 2 - 2012 (VOD 2014) Eta Carinae - 2013 Dreamland - 2014 (VOD 2016 / DVD/Bluray 2019) Abduction 101 - 2014 (VOD 2018 on Amazon Prime) The Darkest - 2016 (VOD 2018 on Amazon Prime, theatrically released in France in Novembre 2019) Troubles - 2019

Director / producer - Short films Nuits Blanches - 2011 We Kill Everything - 2016 Shibari - 2018

Director of photography Flare by Yuki Otsuka - 2013

- IMDb mini biography by: Robin Entreinger