Florent Emilio Siri

Who is Florent Emilio Siri?

Florent Emilio Siri is a French video game and film director and screenwriter born in Lorraine.

He studied cinema at the Sorbonne University and ESRA in Paris.

He began his feature film career with the 1998 social film Une minute de silence, and continued in 2002 with the action film Nid de guêpes, and then went on to serve as director of two critically acclaimed and highly successful Splinter Cell games at French-based video game developer Ubisoft, titled Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.

Following the underground success of his first feature film, Siri's directorial style caught the eye of actor Bruce Willis, who asked Siri to direct his big-budget 2005 action thriller Hostage. While not a big commercial success, the film earned considerable critical praise of Siri's slick direction, calling it "an art house version of the Die Hard films."

In 2007, he released a film called L'Ennemi intime treating on the personal aspect and psychological effects on individual personalities of the Algerian War. It was the first movie depicting the use of napalm by the French Army during the 1954-1962 conflict.