He has worked as director of the Cinéma du Réel International Documentary Festival in Paris for the past three years. From 1992 to 2004 he worked for the Filmer à tout Prix Documentary Film Festival in Brussels and for 12 years headed the P’tit Ciné, a documentary screening and distribution company that programs documentary films in various locations in Belgium. Packer-Comyn also taught for several years at the Institut des Hautes Etudes en Communications Sociales (IHECS) in Brussels. He has published various interviews with filmmakers such as Claire Simon, Denis Gheerbrant and Jean-Louis Comolli, and has worked on several films and TV programs for Arte and the RTBF. In 2008, he was awarded the Prix Coq by the Communauté Française for his work in documentary distribution.
He has worked as director of the Cinéma du Réel International Documentary Festival in Paris for the past three years. From 1992 to 2004 he worked for the Filmer à tout Prix Documentary Film Festival in Brussels and for 12 years headed the P’tit Ciné, a documentary screening and distribution company that programs documentary films in various locations in Belgium. Packer-Comyn also taught for several years at the Institut des Hautes Etudes en Communications Sociales (IHECS) in Brussels. He has published various interviews with filmmakers such as Claire Simon, Denis Gheerbrant and Jean-Louis Comolli, and has worked on several films and TV programs for Arte and the RTBF. In 2008, he was awarded the Prix Coq by the Communauté Française for his work in documentary distribution.
