Meet Hugues Barbier

HUGUES BARBIER // head of production

Hugues Barbier is a producer/production manager who is a long time genre films lover that grew up watching Giallos, American Grindhouse and other exploitation flicks. He’s been involved for over 10 years in the organization and programming of the Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival and is the head of international program at Cinepocalypse for the last year. He also Co-Founded the North Bend Film Festival, a vanguard focused film festival hosted in the town where David Lynch shot Twin Peaks. Hugues is also the Co-Founder of Yellow Veil Pictures, a New York City and Los Angeles-based international film sales company that focuses exclusively on boundary pushing genre cinema and emergent filmmakers.

When he’s not on set you’ll find him attending festivals such as Berlinale, SxSW, Tribeca, Cannes, BiFan, Fantasia, Fantastic Fest, or Sitges – talking films and science.