Narrativ Nation

ABOUT

Above all, Narrativ Nation is where young creatives and seasoned professionals come together to create audiovisual worlds.

It’s a collective will to channel our talents into the creation live out new ad t lead to to channel our talents into creating new adventures, a drive to push the boundaries of audiovisual creation. An alchemy of emotion, on any platform or device.

Narrativ Nation currently has a presence in France and Belgium. We work in communication, both in audiovisual fiction and advertising. We are committed to bridging the gap between the two industries.

THE TEAM

DYLAN

Producer – New media specialist

Dylan is “the PoliSci major,” and like everyone who studies political science, he’s a specialized generalist. But Dylan’s real specialty is whatever he’s passionate about.

In 2012, he anonymously launches Typique, a social media community, grounded in humor and satire, which draws tens of thousands of fans across France and Belgium. He then co-creates and authors the web-series Typique with Benjamin Torrini, Lionel Delhaye, and Jérôme Dernovoi. Specializing in the use of new media platforms and fictional web productions, he’s the brains behind our projects’ digital strategies. He handles his stress by having nightmares. And they’re not pretty.

His creed: three lit screens are better than a lone dark one.

LIONEL

Director – author – producer

Lionel is a director. In his sights: online creations, short films for television, and advertising.

Coming by way of the New York Film Academy and Brussels’ Institut des Arts de Diffusion, he gets his start online and on TV alongside Benjamin Torrini and Jérôme Dernovoi with the series Typique, for which he wrote and directed all three seasons. At the same time, he directs the music video Les sales gosses for L’Or Du Commun, a rising act on the French and Belgian hip-hop scene. He then lines up a short film (Gaspard) and gets to work on an unprecedented directing experience: the live television production of two unedited 20 minute episodes for the series Typique. On Sunday nights, when it’s nasty out, he watches Forrest Gump, Gladiator, or The Green Line.

His creed: life is a story, you just need to tell it right.

BENJAMIN

Actor – author – director – producer

Benjamin is a musician, actor, writer, and director. He is musically trained and starts theater at an early age before getting a wakeup call in 2008 when he joins the cast of an American production of the musical Miss Saigon. He lines up an array of projects, from musicals (Un soir qui penche, the operetta L’auberge du cheval blanc), to theater (L’école des ventriloques, 5:02), to film (A beautiful lie… ). Since 2012, he has been co-writing and –directing the series Typique, for which he also plays the Machiavellian character Ben the Ex. A perfectionist, gifted with inexhaustible brainstorming powers, he never sits down.

His creed: problems go away when you sing them.

CHRISTIAN

Producer – show runner

With 25 years of experience as an audiovisual manager in advertising, Christian built his career on shepherding commercials for big-name brands from within agencies like TBWA, Publicis, and Havas.

Equally creator, entrepreneur, writer, and producer of fiction, Christian is Narrativ Nation’s founder. He knows everything—he’s our wise man, our Gandalf.

His creed: two sitting savants will never go as far as one roving philistine.

PARTNERS

Gilles Klass, manager of ExecAdvice, is on several board of directors and advisory councils (Sogesma-Trafic, Stanley & Stella, Sapristic, EVS, Recyterre) and is an expert in providing guidance at all stages of emerging companies’ growth.

Neverland production. Production Company headquartered in Brussels whose principal line of business is providing films with financial partners (Tax Shelters) and foreign producers.

HIM Production. Production company based in Charentes that welcomes films shoots to a region that provides a wealth of technical and artistic infrastructure.