‏Patrice Girod‏

Patrice Girod's comprehensive 25-year experience in film, television, print, and new media, have led him to collaborate with some of the most important companies in the entertainment industry worldwide. These include 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Universal, Walt Disney Pictures, Sony Pictures, Paramount, DC Comics, Lucasfilm Ltd., Marvel Studios, Universal LLC and French TV networks TF1 and France 2 Catching the film bug early on in his career, while at the Crédit Lyonnais Film Financing Department, Girod worked in the funding stages of France's Renn Productions, 13- million Euros budget for the movie "Germinal" based on Emile Zola's novel, directed by filmmaker and producer Claude Berri, and starring Gérard Depardieu.

Girod's versatile, hands-on approach, has allowed him to manage the European Disney Channel production TV crews inside the Euro Disney theme park (a.k.a. Disneyland Paris), and to consult on France's cult TV presenters Igor and Grichka Bogdanov's TV science-fiction and science fact access prime-time talk show.

Patrice Girod's work and involvement in marketing strategies has contributed in raising European audiences' and readers' awareness through print media and promoting special events around such television franchises as Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Smallville, or Heroes, and film franchises such as the Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Spider-man sagas. After a twenty-year business relationship with the activities of Lucasfilm Ltd. and its franchises, Patrice Girod has returned to filmmaking, his lifelong passion, and is in charge of Marketing and Licensing at Starfix Productions.