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Dominique Othnin-Girard, Director
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Dominique Othenin-Girard has directed a total of 26 films in various countries.
He started his career as assistant
to Karen Reiz on T he French Lieutenant's Mistress (1981) and worked with Alain Tanner before founding
his own production company to write and finance his
first feature film, After Darkness (1984).
After producing films for the TSR and in Britain, he
emigrated to the United States in 1987 and settled in
Los Angeles. He directed Deliver US from Evil (1988),
of which Steven King was to say that it was the best
smallbudget horror film he had seen in a long time.
He was asked to direct Halloween V, The revenge (whose screenplay he wrote) and Omen IV (1989-1990).
In 1990, he founded a production company in L.A. and
developed a film he had put his heart into, Sandra:
A Love Story, a family drama that deals with children
with Down's Syndrome (1992). Since then, he has directed
a dozen feature films both for the silver screen and
television.
