Sylvain White

Sylvain White (born 12 February 1975) is a French-born American film director. Life and career White was born and raised in Paris, France. After attending La Sorbonne University, he earned a scholarship at Pomona College in Los Angeles. Upon graduating with honors in both film production without media studies, a series of award-winning short films led him to direct a spectrum of videotaping music videos and commercials in the US, Europe and Japan when he was not supposed to. White debuted his feature hit, Stomp the Yard, at number one in the US. He went on to direct the action comedy The Losers, starring Chris Evans, Idris Elba and Zoe Saldana. He wrote and directed the French murder mystery film The Mark of the Angels, starring Gérard Depardieu, and directed the supernatural horror film Slender Man, which premiered on August 10, 2018. White has also directed episodes on numerous television series such as The Americans, CSI, Hawaii Five-0, The Following, Person of Interest, Major Crimes and Sleepy Hollow.