Marc du Pontavice

Founder and President, Xilam Animation Game-Changer Award

Marc du Pontavice began his career at

Gaumont, where he co-founded Gaumont

Television and supervised the production of a hundred hours of prime time fiction, including the series Highlander. He also created Gaumont Multimedia, whose assets he acquired in 1999 to found Xilam

Animation. The studio has established itself as one of the world’s leaders in animation production, with several worldwide successes, including award-winning series such as Oggy and the Cockroaches, Zig & Sharko and Mr. Magoo, which are all exec produced by du Pontavice. He has also produced dozens of live-action and animated features, the most recent one being director Jeremy Clapin’s acclaimed feature I Lost My Body, which was nominated for an Academy Award and received three Césars.