Antoine Simkine founded Les Films d'Antoine in 2004, after twenty years of experience in production and visual effects. His films have been selected and awarded at major international festivals — Sundance, Berlinale, Cannes, Toronto, Venice — and distributed in over forty countries.
From 1989 to 2002, he co-founded and ran Duboi, a pioneering digital visual effects company in Europe, serving as CEO for thirteen years. He supervised visual effects on over a hundred films: The City of Lost Children and Amélie (Jeunet), Alien Resurrection (Jeunet/Fox), The Ninth Gate (Polanski), Ronin (Frankenheimer), Joan of Arc (Besson), The Man Who Cried (Potter).
In 2002–2003, he joined 20th Century Fox in Sydney then Vancouver as VFX producer on I, Robot (Proyas). Returning to Paris in 2004, he dedicated himself to international independent production, developing a speciality in Franco-European and Nordic co-productions.
In 2013, he founded Digifilm Corporation, dedicated to digital preservation and archiving. He is developing the Archiflix project — long-term archiving encoded on polyester film — supported by Bpifrance, targeting the film, defence and heritage sectors.
CNC Classification Commission / SPI (2011–2025), Cinémas du Monde CNC, Eurimages, OFC (Ontario), Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region.
