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Laurent Crouzeix was born in 1970 in Clermont-Ferrand, France, where he studied English Literature and Civilization (BA) at the Université Blaise Pascal. He then took off to London for a year as an exchange student at Goldsmiths College, University of London, specializing in translation. He was first contracted by the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival in 1995, joined the International Selection Committee in 1997, and has viewed over a thousand short films per year ever since. For a few years he divided his time between Clermont-Ferrand and the North of England, doing various jobs for the UK National Health Service and working with the Leeds International Film Festival to launch the Louis le Prince Short Film Competition in 1999. He settled back permanently in Clermont-Ferrand in 2000, and has since worked year-round with the association Sauve Qui Peut le Court-Métrage as the organizer of the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. He plays electric bass with the post-roots band Bolik.