Biography

Fascinated by the beauty, fragility and mystery of Nature, Sébastien Pins shows an early interest in photography. He relentlessly strives to capture strong and magical moments of connection between Man and Nature. His work has received numerous awards across Europe.

In 2012 he directed a short film entitled "My Forest" in which he managed to capture the emotion and the magic of strong moments between human beings and nature through the eyes of a three-year-old boy. This movie won many prizes worldwide, one of which awarded by the United Nations in Istanbul during the "Forum on Forests".

"My Forest" was selected in more than a hundred festivals around the world, allowing it to be shown in many "Oscar Nominating" Film Festivals.

His work is supported by celebrities such as Hubert Reeves and Marion Cotillard.

In 2014 Sébastien Pins directed a second short film entitled "A passion of Gold and Fire". This tribute to a beekeeper is currently enjoying worldwide success and has been selected by world-renowned festivals such as: Seattle International Film Festival (Oscar(TM) nominating Festival), Slamdance Film Festival (Oscar(TM) nominating Festival) DOC NYC (Oscar(TM) nominating Festival), 26th New Orleans Film Festival (Oscar(TM) nominating Festival), Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival St. Louis International Film(Oscar(TM) nominating Festival), Sleepwalkers International Short Film Festival(BAFTA-Recognised Film Festival),...

Sebastien Pins currently continues his directing work in nature-fiction short movies. He is busy shooting a short film featuring lumberjack horses and their masters. His objective is to shed some light on a very little known activity as well as to value the work of people who have always contributed to the good health and the preservation of our forests.
- IMDb mini biography by: Didier Lequeux

Sébastien Pins is a film director and director of photography who graduated from the "Institut des arts de diffusion" (IAD) in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

His first short films "Ma forêt" (2012), and "A passion of gold and fire" (2014) got selected at hundreds of festivals and won several awards. Sébastien Pins is supported by UNO and celebrities/icons such as Hubert Reeves, Marion Cotillard, Frédéric Back, Ségolène Royal, and Thierry Machado.

At the beginning of 2019, he finished "Traces" which, even during a worldwide pandemic, still managed to get hundreds of selections and multiple awards.

"When the swallows fly away" came out at the end of 2021, a short film about a tragic event happening to a couple of old farmers. This documentary also won dozens of awards, and was shown at the "World Wildlife Day Film Showcase" by UNO. The director has also been the recipient for the "Green Film Network Award", the Holy Grail of nature movies.

Sébastien Pins has been working since 2023 on his first feature film which aims to alert the audience about our society's abusive excesses.
- IMDb mini biography by: A.Leher