2024 JURY

Discover the personalities who make up the Jury for the final stage of the Futura Cinema incubation programme (2024 edition).

Clara Benyamin (CBLF Avocats)

ATTORNEY

After working in production for a contemporary orchestra and an arts agency, Clara Benyamin became a lawyer at the Paris Bar in 2017. She specialises in intellectual property law.

Having gained initial experience in renowned Parisian law firms, she co-founded CBLF Avocats in 2020 with Loïc FOUQUET, a lawyer specialising in music law.

Clara Benyamin mainly advises players in the cultural and creative industries (cinema, gaming, VR, etc.), particularly in audiovisual and technology law (software, data, platforms).

Since September 2022, she has been a member of the Immersive Creation Fund at the CNC.

LAURE BONVILLE (BFI London Film Festival)

PROGRAMMER

Laure Bonville is one of the programmers for the BFI London Film Festival, where she oversees the selection of documentary and French-language films. She has also worked for the British Cinémathèque, the La Rochelle Cinéma Festival, the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and the Hamburg Short Film Festival.

Jerome HILAL (ZINC.)

CHAIRMAN AND FOUNDER

Jérôme Hilal's career in the film industry has always revolved around distribution.

After studying communications at Celsa - Paris IV, he joined the Silenzio advertising agency in 2004, when its sole client was Mars Distribution.
In 2010, he left the agency to join the marketing department of Paramount Pictures France. After a short entrepreneurial adventure (still in cinema advertising), StudioCanal recruited him in 2014 to head up its marketing department, and in 2015 he was appointed head of distribution at Gaumont.

In 2021, a year after leaving the latter company, he founded his own distribution company: Zinc.

JENNIFER LUFAU (Afrogameuses)

CULTURAL AUTHENTICITY CONSULTANT, VIDEO GAMES COLUMNIST, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF AFROGAMEUSES

Committed to equal opportunities and inclusion in the world of video games and culture, Jennifer works with video game studios such as Twin Drums and Ubisoft to help them create culturally authentic stories.

With a background in marketing and communications, she combined her different areas of expertise to set up Afrogameuses in 2020, an association that now has over 600 members and promotes the inclusion and representation of Black, racialised and queer women who play or work in the field.

An advocate for inclusion for a number of years, she now brings her voice to radio RFI, where she analyses the video games industry and news from an educational and hard-hitting angle every week in her column "Bienvenue dans le Game".

Revolutionising the industry with passion and dedication, Jennifer is paving the way for more diverse and vibrant video games and has been recognised by the industry, making her the winner of the Top Leaders Under 35 award, as well as Games Industry Biz's Game Changers 2023 list and the 100 Women of Culture 2024 list.

Marianne Tinant (Les Grignoux)

HEAD OF INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT

Marianne Tinant has a degree in History of Art and Archaeology (Université de Liège) and a university certificate in Management of Social Enterprises (HEC-Centre d'économie sociale de l'Université de Liège). She has been active as a project manager (on a local, regional and European scale) in the socio-cultural sector and the field of lifelong learning with a number of Liège-based associations since 1994.

In 2022, she joined Les Grignoux, a social economy cultural enterprise operating 4 cinemas in Liège and Namur and active in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, as Head of Institutional Relations and Development.

She is also a director of le Réseau belge des salles de cinéma Art et essai et de proximité and of le Centre culturel des Chiroux in Liège.