Born in Limoges in 1987, graduate of ESAV and former critic at Cahiers du cinéma, Quentin Papapietro has shot around twenty short films in ten years, including 40A service Pierrick (2020) broadcast on Canal+, as well as two feature films, Water Music (2014) and En Fumée (2018). His films, selected at major festivals in France and internationally, were the subject of a mini-retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française in 2019.