Lionel Kaplan debuted his career as a director with the short film ‘‘La première fois’’ with Benoît Magimel as the lead actor. He then directed three other films including a medium-length one. He is now also working in production as a development and production manager. He is currently working on the development of a couple of his own feature films projects. The first one is in its financing phase and the main characters will be played by Tcheky Karyo, Sabrina Ouazani, Pierre Perrier and Rashid Debbouze.