Director's Bio: After studying cinema at the University of Paris 8, Jean-Marie Gatin began directing in 2009 with the creation of short humorous formats, the filming of Parisian concerts and the production of television reports. In 2010, he began working on film sets as a decorator assistant or accessory assistant. From 2013, he directed “Fumer Tue”, a docu-fiction emphasizing the spontaneity of the actor in a story of friendly inertia. A year later, Jean-Marie begins to explore in his scripts the theme of isolation, whether it be a choice or a psychological hindrance. To this end, he is inspired by a short story by his brother Olivier Gatin and directed “Préambule”, a dark short film about the pain of a man who can no longer stand himself. In 2017, he created the Racines Communes association in Cévennes, with the aim of establishing many artistic residences and an exhibition space. There, he created with Mélissa Martin the festival "Les Arts prennent Racines" which highlights young artistic creation from the region and elsewhere, and organizes video production and writing workshops with young lost people in order to introduce them to this profession. In 2016 he met Anne, Lise and Aude Charrin with whom he has been working for four years to complete the production of the short film “The Secret Walls”. Anne Charrin, born in 1983, first studied history of art and plastic arts. She obtained two licenses in 2004-2005 then turned to space and its artistic staging. After training in space design, she continued training in architecture at the National School of Architecture in Paris la Villette, from which she graduated in 2010. For 10 years, she has worked as an interior designer and scenographer for the Pustetto workshop, specializing in events, exhibitions and luxury. She also works as an artist-author for various projects and enriches his work by collaborating for several years with various artists for the realization of sets, installations and staging. Lover of fine crafts, she has been following since 2019, in addition to her work as a scenographer, a training at the Ecole Boulle (Paris) in cabinetmaking, to perfect her knowledge in the design of furniture and objects. Lise Charrin, born in 1986, studied music at a very high level at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, where she obtained two Masters - piano (2012) and artistic education (2016). Along with her life as a classical musician, she explores other paths : theater music, but also writing, by writing presentation texts for recordings or by co-translating Kim Un-Su’s Korean thriller “Hot Blood”, released in France in January 2020 and critically acclaimed in newspapers. The short film “The Secret Walls", for which she is artistic director with her sisters Anne and Aude, is based on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, from which she tried to extract, after many months of research, a new meaning symbolic and poetic, transposable to the image. Aude Charrin, born in 1989, studied architecture at the Paris La Villette National School of Architecture, and obtained her diploma in 2012. After a few months of professional practice leading her to work in India and Africa on the start-up of projects linked to ecology and local populations, the desire to listen to the language of her own body and to tell stories became vital. She met contemporary dance in 2013, and since then has taken numerous contemporary dance lessons and participated in many choreographic projects. Since 2015, she has entered the world of cinema, this great storytelling factory, where she works mainly on sets, in different professions. She explores another side of the world of decor with the design of a structure for a circus show in 2019. Along with all this, she writes a show inspired by The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, with her two sisters Lise and Anne. From this work is born an aesthetic universe that must be explored and put into images. In 2020, this leads to the co-directing and self-production of the short film The Secret Walls, which is for her the opportunity to realize her love of manufacture, teamwork, and to discover cinematographic directing.