Olivier Gresse is a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle (ESRA) in Nice and a degree in cinema from the University of Lyon II. He has lived in Nouméa since 2005, where he pursues his career as a director, cinematographer and producer, in fiction as in documentary. He has directed and produced numerous fictions (Pour Marie, My life backwards) and documentaries (Pierre Fairbank, a champion like the others, De flesh & de fer) in New Caledonia. At the start of 2016, he directed Les Évasanés, a creative documentary that tells the daily life of Caledonian patients sent to Sydney for treatment. This 55-minute film was broadcast on NC1ère, France O and at the Anûû-rû Âboro festival. He also directed in 2016 the fictional short film Je ne pleurerai plus, a 24-minute comedy which was broadcast at Ciné-City, on NC1ère and at the La Foa festival where he received the screenplay prize and the prize. of the Jury.