JURY - COMPOSERS

SERENA Productions and La Napoule Art Foundation are pleased to present the professionals who make up the Jury Composers for CASA CINE 2025.

The panel brings together renowned composers of artistic sensibility and remarkable backgrounds to select the film score composers that will take part in the next edition of the residency.

From classical and orchestral music to world music, rock and electronic, the jury members reflect all of the diversity and richness of musical creation. Together, with their sharp ears and vast experience, they'll be able to recognize and value unique artistic voices!

A huge thank you for their dedication to supporting the work of emerging filmmakers.

Antônio Pinto

Antônio Pinto is a Brazilian composer. His distinguished journey in film scoring began in 1995 with Foreign Land, directed by Walter Salles, marking the start of a remarkable creative partnership that would span four feature films, including Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Central Station (1998) and Behind the Sun (2001). His work on Salles’ films, alongside Jacques Morelenbaum, Ed Côrtes and Beto Villares, earned him international recognition and led to further acclaimed projects such as City of God (2002), directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, on which he worked again alongside Côrtes. At this time, he also scored the Brazilian TV spinoff City of Men, which premiered in 2002.

Since then, Antônio Pinto has built a prolific career, composing for numerous well-known Brazilian as well as Hollywood films. He contributed additional music to Collateral (2004) with Tom Cruise, and served as the main composer for films such as 10 Items or Less (2006), Perfect Stranger (2007), Snitch (2013), Trash (2014), Self/less (2015), O Banquete (2018), The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019) and Nine Days (2020). His score for Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song with Despedida, co-written with Shakira. This song, along with another Pinto-Shakira collaboration, Hay Amores, was featured on the film's soundtrack, released by Epic in 2008.

Beyond film, he collaborated with Beto Villares and others on music for the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympic Games in Rio in 2016.

Antônio Pinto is also an active composer for television, having scored the Brazilian TV series Under Pressure (2017) and The Mechanism (2018), as well as the American TV adaptation of The Mosquito Coast (2021).

Throughout his career, Antônio Pinto has composed for over 80 film and television productions in total, and is internationally celebrated for his varied orchestral film scores that incorporate Brazilian folk influences and the sound of the acoustic guitar.

Delphine Mantoulet

Delphine Mantoulet is a French composer. She trained as a classical pianist, initially influenced by the universe of rock and electro music. She began her career as a producer in London at Swan Island Music, an underground electro label, before joining Warner Bros Music Studio in Paris and later Naïve Records.

It was when she met director Tony Gatlif on the film Exils in 2004 that she began her career as a composer, and developed a passion for world and film music. This marked the beginning of a long-standing artistic partnership. She went on to collaborate on Tony Gatlif's films: Transylvania, Liberté, Indignados and Geronimo. She was twice nominated for a César for Best original film score (Exils, 2004; Liberté, 2009) and received numerous awards, including the Best Original Film Score prize for the song Les Bohémiens performed by Catherine Ringer in the film Liberté, awarded by the Chambre Syndicale de l'Édition Musicale.

Delphine Mantoulet is also interested in live performance. In 2017, she took up the challenge of composing the continuous music for an 80-minute show in homage to Claude Ponti, Lala Bidoum, in which she recreates the imaginary dreamlike and fantastic tales of the author. Presented at La Cartoucherie, the show toured on several stages in France.

In 2019, she composed the soundtrack for Philippe Moreau’s documentary Des Îles et Des Joueurs and worked on the music for a series by Rita Elquessar. Alongside Karoline Rose Sun, Nicolas Reyes and Manero, Delphine Mantoulet composes - between flamenco, rock and gypsy music - the soundtrack for Tony Gatlif's Tom Medina, presented in official selection at Festival de Cannes in 2021. In the same year, Delphine Mantoulet was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

She scored Asli Özarslan's film Elbow, which premiered in 2024 at the Berlinale and was in competition at the Festival Music & Cinéma in Marseille. She is currently composing the music for Matei Branea's Grandpa is Sleeping and Tony Gatlif's new film Ange et Soléa, due for release in 2025.

Jean-Louis Agobet

French composer Jean-Louis Agobet began studying composition in 1983. He trained at Aix-en-Provence Conservatory with Michel Pascal, then with Jacques Charpentier in Nice, before attending the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Lyon with Philippe Manoury.

Major commissions from Radio France, the French Ministry of Culture and IRCAM launched his career in the early 90s. From 1996 to 1998, he was artist-in-residence at Villa Medici in Rome. He later held Composer-in-Residence positions with Montpellier National Orchestra (1999-2001), Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra (2001-2005), and Lorraine National Orchestra (2013-2015), producing major orchestral works of international presence like Phonal (1999), Ritratto Concertante (2000), and Violin Concerto (2013), among others.

His piece Génération (2002), a concerto grosso for three clarinets and orchestra, established Jean-Louis Agobet as one of the most important French composers of his generation. The album release of this piece won the Victoire de la Musique award in 2006.

He has received numerous honors throughout his professional path, including the Special Award of the Prix Italia 1995 (Bologna), the Prix Pierre Cardin 2003 (Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris) and the Académie Charles Cros 2005 Award. In 2021, he was honored with the SACEM Grand Prix for his career.

Jean-Louis Agobet’s works are performed worldwide by top orchestras and ensembles. His catalogue – which includes chamber and vocal music, concertos, works for orchestra, for ensemble – is published by Jobert, Peermusic classical and by Artchipel. In addition to his work as a composer, Jean-Louis Agobet is a professor at the Bordeaux Conservatory since 2011. He is frequently invited to teach composition classes at universities around the world.

Julien Vega

Julien Vega is a French composer and professor. He studied piano, harmony, orchestration, arranging, and analysis at various French conservatories (Aix en Provence, Montpellier, Nice). By the age of 16, he had earned first prizes in piano, chamber music, and musical training. He also holds a diploma in jazz composition from the Nice Conservatoire.

A multi-faceted musician, versatile arranger and sensitive orchestrator, he can be found at the piano in a variety of classical, jazz and contemporary music formations, accompanying dance, and even floating on the sea (Compagnie La Rumeur / Marseille). In 2013, he won the Best Animated Film Score competition (CIMFA - Annecy).

He composes original music for documentary films, and composes numerous soundtracks for television, radio and advertising, notably for Netflix, OCS and Amazon productions.

Julien Vega is also a faculty member at the Master MSC Sound Design and Music for Screen program at Université de Nice Côte d'Azur.