Joachim Pierre Jacques Hubert Gautler

Joachim graduated from Normandy Business School in France with a Masters degree in Cross Cultural Marketing & Negotiation. He wrote his Master thesis about public film financing in France, a ""cultural exception"" in the world. He had an exchange year in Amsterdam while earning his Bachelors degree. He had his first professional experience in the U.S. at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, New York, in the film department. Before that, he worked in several audiovisual companies in Paris and Amsterdam, Pathé, TF1 and the National Center Cinema. Prior to AFI, he worked at Imovision, a film distributor in São Paulo.