Pierre-Paul Renders was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1963. He is married and has a young daughter named Louise. He graduated from the Catholic University of Louvain in 1984 after studying Classical Philology; he qualified as Film Director at the IAD (Institut des Arts de Diffusion, Louvain-la Neuve) in 1989. He equally enjoys documentaries and fiction, television and cinema.
Renders is the author of LA TENDRESSE, one of the SEPT PÉCHÉS CAPITAUX (collective Belgian full-length film, 1992, selected at the Critics Week in Venice in 1992). In 1993-1994, he directed several episodes of the television show DOUBLE SEPT for the French-speaking Belgian television channel RTBF- Charleroi and acquired some experience as assistant-director in fiction, advertising and documentaries and directed actors for a television series. He wrote four documentaries for Médecins sans Frontières Belgique (Doctors without borders) between 1996 and 1998: CRISE DU KIVU, PAROLES SANS FRONTIÈRES, URGENCE SOUDAN and SOMMEIL TROMPEUR.
In early 2000 he completed his first full-length fiction film THOMAS EST AMOUREUX (THOMAS IS IN LOVE, based on a script by Philippe Blasband).
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