Harold Manning

Harold Manning

Scriptwriter, director, producer and translator

Born in England in 1968, Harold Manning studied film at the Sorbonne with Joseph Morder and made several short films. From 1988 he took part in the creation and programming of the Angers Festival “Premiers Plans”. He has also acted in a handful of feature films including Les Cinéphiles by Louis Skorecki, Mr. Nobody by Jaco Van Dormael and El Cantor by Joseph Morder.

He has followed the development in London of new feature films for the BFI, the First Film Foundation and Raw Productions. With the companies Northern Line Films and later Les Films de la Liberté, he has produced his own documentaries – essentially interviews with filmmakers – and other films. For French national radio France Inter, he carried out a series of interviews with Pedro Almodovar, Chantal Akerman, Wim Wenders, Stephen Frears and Robert Guédiguian. He has also worked in the theatre as assistant director alongside Deborah Warner, and later Robert Wilson.

Scriptwriter, dialogue writer and adapter, as a graduate from the Atelier Scénario of the Fémis he began to work for other filmmakers, such as Tsai Ming-Liang, Marie-Christine Questerbert, Patrice Chéreau and Jaco Van Dormael. He recently wrote the dialogues for Elle by Paul Verhoeven and collaborated in the screenplay of High Life by Claire Denis. Harold Manning has translated many classic plays and subtitled more than 200 international feature films. He is also the regular interpreter for filmmakers such as Jim Jarmusch, Ken Loach, Woody Allen, David Lynch and Francis Ford Coppola. He teaches film criticism at La Fémis.