Émilie Tronche

Émi­lie Tronche joined the Ate­lier de Sèvres in 2014 before con­tin­u­ing her stud­ies at the Angoulême Ani­ma­tion Trade School, grad­u­at­ing in 2019. She then direct­ed Prom­e­nade sen­ti­men­tale, a short film adapt­ed from a Paul Ver­laine poem, for the sev­enth sea­son of the “Com­ing Out of School” pro­gram broad­cast on France Télévi­sions. In 2020, she cre­at­ed the char­ac­ter of Samuel, a 10-year-old boy who recounts episodes from his life inspired by child­hood mem­o­ries, set to music and dance. When she spon­ta­neous­ly pub­lished online the short ani­mat­ed film that would become the first episode of Samuel, she was scout­ed by pro­duc­er Damien Megher­bi, founder of the pro­duc­tion com­pa­ny Les Valseurs, who pro­posed that she devel­op Samuel’s adven­tures for an online series. Broad­cast by Arte through its arte.tv site, it became a bona fide hit and has today earned over 50 mil­lion views. In 2025, she pub­lished Samuel’s Jour­nal, a graph­ic nov­el co-pub­lished by Arte Édi­tions and Cast­er­man. Émi­lie Tronche is cur­rent­ly work­ing on a fea­ture adap­ta­tion of the Bel­gian com­ic Incred­i­ble! by Zabus and Hip­poly­te, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the film’s direc­tor Ben­jamin Massoubre.