MANUEL TERAN   AFC

Born: ?, as Manuel 'Manu' Téran.

Career: Started his career in 1974 with the prod company of dir François Reichenbach. Worked at Alga Panavision, a company renting film cameras.

Ph commercials dir by Costa Kekemenis [for Tuborg Beer], a.o.

Became member of the AFC in 1992, but left the association in 2000 for personal reasons. Returned as a member in 2005.

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FILMS

1975        Strasbourg-Paris... à pied [Gérard de Battista] 16mm/c; doc/13m; cph: G. de Battista & Michel Houssiau

1977        La télédiction, un nouveau regard sur la terre [Daniel Absil, Paul de Roubaix & François Dupeyron] ?; doc/26m; cph:

                    Jean Monsigny & Gérard de Battista

1985        Le Mac Guffin [Gilles Soulier] ?

1987        La vie platinée/Treichville Story [Claude Cadiou] 16mm/c

1988        La fête des pères/Father's Day [Joy Fleury] c

1989        Un père et passe... [Sébastien Grall] c

1989        Calypso Season [Alain Majani d'Inguimbert] ?

1990        Isabelle Eberhardt [Ian Pringle] c

1992        Les nuits fauves/Savage Nights [Cyril Collard] c

1993        La reine Margot/Queen Margot [Patrice Chéreau] c; ?; ph: Philippe Rousselot

1993        Before the Rain/Pred dozhdot/Po dezju [Milcho Manchevski] tvi/c; 2uc: Dragan Salkovski, Philippe Le Sourd &

                    Simon Reeves; thanks to Darius Khondji for contribution to cinematography

1994        Saraka bô [Denis Amar] c; 2uc: Thierry Pouget

1995        Liniya zhizni/Ligne de vie/The Life in Red/Line of Life [Pavel Lounguine] c

1995        Oui/Il n'y a pas que le sexe dans la vie?/Yes [Alexandre Jardin] c; 2uc: Thierry Pouget

1996        Red Shoe Diaries 13: Four on the Floor [Rafael Eisenman, a.o.] V/c; comp of ep ('Four on the Floor', a.o.) from

                    tv-series 'Red Shoe Diaries'; other ph: Étienne Faudet & Marco Mazzei; see Television (1993)

1997        Le pari/The Bet [Didier Bourdon & Bernard Campan] c; 2uc: Thierry Pouget

1997        Question d'honneur [Richard Aujard] c; short/14m

1998        Petits frères [Jacques Doillon] c

1998        Mercy [Damian Harris] scope/c; uwph: Pauline Heaton

1999        L'extraterrestre [Didier Bourdon] c

1999        Le prof [Alexandre Jardin] c

1999        Entrevue/Meeting [Marie-Pierre Huster] c; short/8m

2000        Le défi/Dance Challenge [Blanca Li] c

2001        The Truth About Charlie [Jonathan Demme] c; 2uc France; ph: Tak Fujimoto

2001        Le boulet/Dead Weight [Alain Berbérian & Frédéric Forestier] scope/c; cph: Vincent Mathias, a.o.; aph: James Swanson

2001        Quand je vois le soleil [Jacques Cortal] s16-35bu/c

2002        Lettre d'amour zoulou/Zulu Love Letter [Ramadan Suleman] s16-35bu/c

2003        Massaï - Les guerriers de la pluie/Masai: The Rain Warriors [Pascal Plisson] c

2003        Banlieue 13/District B13 [Pierre Morel] s35/c

2004        RTT [Julien Séri] scheduled to start filming in September, later February 2005; Michel Taburiaux was also mentioned as

                    doph; status unknown

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TELEVISION

1989        Zorro/The New Zorro [various] 88-part series, 1990-92; other ph: Dominique Chapuis, a.o.

1992        Highlander [: The Series] [22 ep dir by Thomas J. Wright, Ray Austin, Jorge Montesi, a.o.] 119-part series, 1992-98;

                    1st season, 1992-93

1993        Red Shoe Diaries [ep #21 (2nd season) 'In the Blink of an Eye' & #35 (3rd season) 'Four on the Floor' dir by Rafael

                    Eisenman] 66-part series, 1992-99

1994        La rage au coeur [Robin Davis] tvm

1994        Le cauchemar d'une mere/A Mother's Battle [Eric Woreth] tvm

1995        Strangers [ep #1 'Going Without' dir by Damian Harris (DH), #3 'Leave' dir by Jean-Marc Vallée, #4 'A New Life' dir by

                    Aline Issermann, #8 'Little Bird' dir by DH, #9 'Touch' dir by Eleanore Lindo (EL) & #13 'Cinema Verite' dir by EL]

                    14-part series, 1996; other ph: Dominique Brenguier & Michel Mandero

1995        Une femme dans la nuit/Confronting the Night [Eric Woreth] tvm

2002        Mortes de préférence [Jean-Luc Breitenstein] tvm

2002        Virus au paradis [Olivier Langlois] tvm

2005        L'empire du tigre [Gérard Marx] 2-part tvm

2005        Alex Santana, négociateur [ep #8 'La cible' dir by René Manzor (RM) & #9 'Le prédateur' dir by RM] 9-part series, 2002-07

2005        Martin Paris - Le dossier Cartier/Martin Paris - Magier des Verbrechens [Douglas Law] pilot (2007)

2006        Capitaine Casta: Amélie a disparu [Joyce Buñuel] tvm

2006        Le temps des secrets [Thierry Chabert] tvm

2006        Le temps des amours [Thierry Chabert] tvm

2006        Les mariées de l'Isle Bourbon [Euzhan Palcy] 2-part tvm

2007        Scalp [Xavier Durringer (ep #1-4) & Jean-Marc Brondolo (ep #5-8)] 8-part miniseries, 2008

2008        Lady Bar 2 [Xavier Durringer] tvm/HD

2008        Section de recherches [ep #16 'Baby-sitter' dir by Jean-Luc Breitenstein (JLB), #17 'Le droit chemin' dir by JLB, #18 'En

                    plein coeur' dir by Bruno Garcia (BG) & #19 'Une femme comme les autres' dir by BG] series/HD, 2006-present; 3rd

                    season, 2008-09

2009        C'est mon tour! [Patrice Martineau] tvm

2009        Blackout [René Manzor] tvm

2009        Section de recherches [ep #33 'Prise d'otages' dir by Denis Amar (DA) & #34 'Millésime meurtrier' dir by DA] 4th

                    season, 2010; 2uc: Roger Dorieux; see 2008

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FILMS AS CAMERA ASSISTANT/OPERATOR

1974	Mariage/Marriage [Claude Lelouch] 2nd c.asst; ph: Jean Collomb
1978	Robert et Robert [Claude Lelouch] co-2nd c.asst; ph: Jacques Lefrançois
1978	La femme qui pleure/The Crying Woman [Jacques Doillon] c.op; ph: Yves Lafaye
1979	Rega'im/Moments de la vie d'une femme/Each Other/Moments [Michal Bat-Adam] co-c.op; ph: Yves Lafaye
1979	Le divorcement [Pierre Barouh] c.asst; ph: Yves Lafaye
1979	Courage fuyons/Courage - Let's Run [Yves Robert] c.asst; ph: Yves Lafaye
1980	Clara et les chics types/Clara and the Swell Guys [Jacques Monnet] co-c.asst; ph: Yves Lafaye