biography

Matthieu Taponier was born in 1982 in Paris, France. After studying Modern Literature, he completed an M.F.A. at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Since 2009, he has been working as a screenwriter, script editor and film editor.

He was a TorinoFilmLab Script&Pitch story editing trainee in 2012 and a script consultant for the Semaine de la critique « Next Step » lab in 2014. He worked as a script editor and film editor on Laszlo Nemes’ Son of Saul, Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival 2015.