Nicolas Saada

Nicolas Saada (born September 5, 1965) is a French screenwriter, director, producer, and journalist. Saada is renowned for his radio show Nova fait son cinéma, dedicated to film music, which he hosted between 1993 and 2007 on Radio Nova in Paris. He was also program director for Arte's fiction unit between 1992 and 1998, alongside Pierre Chevalier, and worked on over a hundred television films. As a journalist for Cahiers du cinéma (1988-2000), he specialized for many years in American and Asian cinema. In 1999, he co-wrote his first screenplay for a film by Pierre Salvadori, Les Marchands de sable. This was followed by other collaborations with Arnaud Desplechin, among others. In 2004, he directed his first short film, Les Parallèles, whic...