Writer · Filmmaker · Storyteller
Author of three books on resilience, capacity, and the craft of storytelling. Filmmaker based near Paris.
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Djamel Bennecib is a French writer, filmmaker, and screenwriting instructor based near Paris. He has written and directed short films selected in festivals, taught screenwriting, and worked as a script reader for production companies.
His work — on screen and on the page — is driven by a single conviction: stories have the power to transform lives.
Core expertise
Over 12 years adapting series and films into English for the world's leading dubbing studios — Pixelogic, Roundabout Entertainment, Iyuno, Dubbing Brothers USA. Every line rewritten to breathe, fit the mouth, and feel native.
Also specializing in audiobook & audio series adaptation — including recent work with Audible on a French-language audio series adaptation of The Three Musketeers.
Korean, Spanish, French, Turkish, Italian and more — all languages into English.
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Depuis 2009, j'accompagne les scénaristes et producteurs qui souhaitent porter leurs histoires vers le marché international — avec les standards hollywoodiens de format et de langue.
Since 2009, helping writers bring their stories to the international market through professional translation and Hollywood-standard formatting.
Bible de série, projet spécifique ? · Series bible, specific project?
Demander un devis · Request a quoteFormation · Training
Construire des personnages inoubliables à partir du conflit intérieur
Une méthode issue de l'analyse de centaines d'histoires pour les grandes plateformes internationales. Apprenez à construire des personnages dont la blessure psychologique donne du sens à chaque scène.
A method drawn from the analysis of hundreds of stories for major international platforms. Learn to build characters whose psychological wound gives meaning to every scene.
Blessure → Croyance → Défaut → Choix → Transformation
Informations pratiques · Practical info
Lieu · Location
Paris ou en ligne
In person or online (Zoom)
Langue · Language
Français
French
Prérequis · Prerequisites
Aucun
None
Doublage · Dubbing
Deux formations professionnelles pour adaptateurs et studios
Deux formations issues de douze ans d'adaptation pour les grandes plateformes internationales.
Informations pratiques · Practical info
Lieu · Location
Paris · Sur site
Paris · On-site
Langue · Language
Français · English
Both languages available
Tarif · Rate
Sur devis
On request
Prochaines sessions sur demande · Next sessions on request
Pack Masterclass + Atelier disponible · Masterclass + Workshop bundle available
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French
Les grandes histoires ne sont pas complexes. Elles sont cohérentes. Elles naissent d'une blessure. Une blessure qui façonne une croyance. Une croyance qui crée un défaut. Un défaut qui impose un choix. Et un choix qui transforme un destin.
À travers une méthode claire et structurée, Le Scénario de la Blessure propose une approche exigeante du récit, centrée sur le conflit intérieur comme moteur dramatique.
Rocky. Breaking Bad. Des œuvres simples en apparence. Implacables dans leur mécanique.
Ce livre ne t'apprend pas à ajouter des rebondissements. Il t'apprend à écrire des transformations.
English
The English edition of Le Scénario de la Blessure. Great stories are not complex. They are coherent. They are born from a wound — a wound that shapes a belief, a belief that creates a flaw, a flaw that forces a choice, and a choice that transforms a destiny.
A rigorous, structured approach to character-driven storytelling, built from the analysis of hundreds of scripts for major international platforms.
This book doesn't teach you to add twists. It teaches you to write transformations.
English
At 36 years old, something cracks for almost everyone. No matter where you come from, what you do, or what you believe in, something shifts around that age. Careers stall. Marriages falter. Friendships fade. The lives we've built suddenly stop holding.
It can feel like everything is breaking. But sometimes what breaks is also what builds.
Part mirror, part reflection, part quiet reconstruction — through chapters, letters, interludes, and confessions, Djamel Bennecib explores the strange moment when life forces us to face what we've avoided, and begin building something stronger.
"I wrote the book I needed when everything cracked open. Maybe it's the one you need too."
English
Most people spend their lives accumulating things they believe will finally make them feel free. A house. A career. Financial security. The visible markers of a life well built.
Yet something quietly happens when they arrive. The freedom they expected is not there. What was meant to liberate begins to confine.
Because happiness does not come from owning. It comes from being able.
Across ten chapters, Djamel Bennecib reveals why true stability comes not from holding, but from remaining capable. Why freedom is not the absence of structure, but the presence of possibility within it. And why the happiest individuals are not those who possess the most, but those who remain able.
Filmography
A short film about a die-hard Michael Jordan fan who despises LeBron James.
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Psychological Horror / Drama · 94 pages
SHE HATED HER BODY. IT MADE HER CHOOSE.
Raised to believe her body was the enemy, a painfully thin young woman buys a vintage dress tagged "Don't wear after midnight" on Halloween night — only to discover it gives her the body she always wanted by slowly erasing her.
An A24-style psychological horror feature where an eating disorder becomes a physical system — and survival means breaking it.
In the vein of Black Swan, Starry Eyes, Hereditary. Casting direction: Thomasin McKenzie · Florence Pugh.