Isabelle GLACHANT started as a journalist for French TV station Canal + and began her career in cinema as executive producer of “Shanghai Dreams” (WANG Xiaoshuai, Cannes Film Festival, Jury Prize, 2005).
Since then, she participated in several of WANG Xiaoshuai‘s films, including “11 Flowers” the first official French-Chinese co-production, and worked with directors like LI Yu, LU Chuan or LOU Ye.
GLACHANT is the founder behind Hong-Kong based production company CHINESE SHADOWS and French-based SHASHA & CO PRODUCTION, which produced among others WANG Bing’s “Three Sisters” (Venice Orizzonti Best Film Award, 2012), WANG Xiaoshuai’s documentary “Chinese Portrait” (BUSAN IFF 2018) and Mouly Surya’s “Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts” (TOKYO FILMeX Grand Prix, 2017).
GLACHANT is also the founder of International boutique Sales company ASIAN SHADOWS that represent films by Asian talents, Masters and new voices, like “Coming Home Again” (2019) by Wayne WANG or “Shen Kong” by CHEN Guang (Venice Days opening film 2021). Made Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture, GLACHANT is also the Greater China representative for the French Industry Promotion association UniFrance.