Nouvelles Vagues
Nouvelles Vagues

Edition 2025

THE RULES OF THE GAME - meeting about casting and acting

Juliette Ménager

©Olivier_Vigerie

Casting director Juliette Ménager shares her career path and explains the challenges of her profession and the casting process.

This discussion provides an insight into the challenges facing young actors. How do you become actors and actresses? How do you approach casting directors? Which doors should you ring? How do you make a self-tape? How do you manage your career?

The discussion will feature agents, filmmakers, and established actors who will answer all the audience's questions alongside Juliette Ménager.

Juliette Ménager is an international casting director. In 1994, she founded Joule Studio Casting in Paris. She runs one of the most renowned casting studios in the world, collaborating with directors such as Clint Eastwood, Bernardo Bertolucci, Alejandro Iñárritu, Matthew Weiner, Darren Star, Steven Spielberg, Lana and Lilly Wachowski, Oliver Stone, John Woo, and Spike Lee.

 

A meeting moderated by François-Pier Pélinard-Lambert (Le Film Français)

Tuesday 24 — 10:00

Le Théâtre de la Gare du Midi Gamaritz - Sur inscription

Juliette Ménager