- Frank Cassenti was born on August 6, 1945 in Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco [now Morocco]. He was a director and writer, known for The Red Poster (1976), Le journal d'une jeune femme sourde (2020) and The Song of Roland (1978). He died on December 22, 2023 in La Ciotat, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.
- Has supported Lionel Jospins 2002 presidential campaign.
- Also jazz fest creator.
- Cassenti was a French stage and film director and screenwriter.
- In 1969, Frank Cassenti alongside Michèle Annie Mercier directed his first short fiction film , Flash Parc , indirectly produced by Jean-Luc Godard , which was selected at Cannes for the Directors' Fortnight.
- From the 1990s, Frank Cassenti made documentaries for Arte on music, in South Africa on Zulu songs and dances, and on great jazz figures, Miles Davis , Dizzy Gillespie , Max Roach , Ray Charles , Nina Simone , Abbey Lincoln.
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