Independent Client-Side Visual Effects Supervisor
NW1 Films is a client-side visual effects company specialized in supervision. We work closely with the production and act as a middleman between you and VFX facilities. NW1 is represented by Sebastien Nebout, an independent visual effects supervisor who puts his creativity and experience at the service of producers and directors.
Our services
At every stage of your project, from script development, through preparation, filming and post-production, we support you in every step of the production of visual effects.
Development
In the early stages of your project, during the script development, we help you draw up an initial work plan, so you can quickly identify and anticipate the creative and financial challenges to come.
Pre-production
In close collaboration with department heads and managers, we support you, directors and producers, in the preparation of the shoot. We find the best solutions to meet your needs, while respecting your vision and budget.
SHOOTING
With the support of the various collaborators and while assisting the director, we supervise the visual effects during the shoot to gather the material needed for their production during the post-production phase.
Post-Production
As an intermediary between the production and the VFX studios, we ensure the creative and visual continuity of your project. We supervise the companies responsible for producing the effects, while respecting your schedule and budget.
Our projects
Mexico, today. Lawyer Rita receives an unexpected offer. She has to help a feared cartel boss retire from his business and disappear forever by becoming the woman he's always dreamed of being.
A young princess is forced into marriage with the ruler of a rival kingdom. She discovers that during the harvest season, the kingdom performs a strange ritual. It sacrifices its princesses to a hungry dragon. This year, she's the prey.
Disgraced political journalist placed in the football section, Pove is asked to follow the presidential campaign in progress. The front-runner is Pierre-Henry Mercier, a fifty-year-old heir from a powerful French family and a novice in politics. Troubled by this candidate, Pove embarks on an investigation that is as surprising as it is jubilant.
In the original feature film, The Spanish Apartment, Erasmus students Xavier and Wendy meet in Barcelona. Today, their two grown-up children, Tom and Mia, meet in Athens, but they're from a completely different generation. After the death of their maternal grandfather, Tom and Mia have to deal with an unexpected family inheritance.
When a beautiful, strong-willed princess refuses to marry the cruel sociopath to whom she's engaged, her enraged father has her kidnapped and locked away in an isolated castle tower. Faced with a vindictive and despised suitor who is bent on usurping her father's throne, she must find radical solutions not only to protect herself and her family, but also to save the entire kingdom.
A young man has the rare gift of recognizing every sound he hears. On board of a French nuclear submarine, everything depends on him, the Golden Ear. Reputedly infallible, he makes a mistake that puts the crew in mortal danger. He wants to regain the trust of his comrades, but his quest leads them into an even more dramatic situation. In the world of nuclear deterrence and disinformation, they all find themselves trapped in an uncontrollable spiral.
Halla, in her fifties, declares war on the local aluminum industry, which is disfiguring her country. She takes every risk to protect the Icelandic Highlands... But the situation could change with the unexpected arrival of a little orphan in her life.
A man just out of prison meets an old con who hires him as a bodyguard, and takes him on a long journey across the United States. The ex-convict discovers that his "boss" is an ancient Norse god in battle with modern deities: the Internet, cars, television and all the new media.
SEBASTIEN NEBOUT
Sebastien Nebout is self-taught. He joined the VFX world in 2015 when BUF offered him the opportunity to join the studio. It was with BUF and Pierre Buffin that Sebastien gained his first experience as a supervisor on projects such as American Gods, Le Chant du Loup and Woman at War.
In 2018, after three years at BUF, he joined ILM in London, the prestigious studio behind the Star Wars and Jurassic Park films. He works with some of the best artists in Europe and gains a lot of experience. For almost four years, Sebastien toured the major studios (ILM, Framestore, MPC...), enabling him to work on major projects such as Jurassic World, Alita, Mission Impossible and Batman.
Back in France, he joins The Yard and supervises French and international projects until 2023. The same year, NW1 Films signs his first project as additional supervisor on Jacques Audiard's next film, Emilia Perez. The project is supervised in collaboration with Cedric Fayolle from Les Artizans.