Hélène Giraud

Hélène Giraud is a french film director, author, and production designer. She started as a conceptual artist on the film "The Fifth Element (1997)" by Luc Besson and on the science fiction thriller "Renaissance (2006)". She participates in the design of the video game "Stupid Invaders (2001)" and is the artistic director of the action-adventure video game based on the film "The Fifth Element (1998)". She also won the 1st prize for a 4D short film at the Dimension 3 festival in 2005 for her work as production designer on film screened at "Terra Botanica" Amusement Park in Angers (France), In 2006, Helene Giraud and Thomas Szabo teamed up to create the internationally-acclaimed "Minuscule (2006)" animated TV series for Futurikon. The series win the Special Jury Award at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival and the Pulcinella Award for best television series of all ages at the Cartoons on the Bay festival. In 2012, the pair adapted that universe to the big screen, co-writing and co-directing "Minuscule: La vallée des fourmis perdues (2013)". That film garnered numerous awards, nabbing the César for Best Animated Feature and was chosen to represent France in that year's Oscars and BAFTA Awards. "Minuscule 2: Les mandibules du bout du monde (2018)" ("Minuscule - Mandibles from far away"), their second feature, came out in France in January 2019 and is actually selected at the Colcoa festival in Los Angeles. "Minuscule2" becomes the biggest French success of 2019 in China. Helene Giraud was awarded the insignia of "Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters" in 2015. She is the daughter of renowned French comic book artist Jean Giraud (a.k.a. Moebius).