Thierry’s career as a Director started as a fraternal venture alongside his brother, under the name ‘Les Freres Poiraud’. They soon moved into the world of advertising and directed BETC’s first commercial success ‘Statue of Liberty‘ for Hollywood Chewing Gum. 

Many other commercials followed suit and they were soon awarded a Silver Lion in Cannes Lions Festival for Airbus.

After their first feature film ‘Atomik Circus’, Thierry went solo and started directing alone, working regularly both in France and globally. The year 2007 was a milestone for the final time that the brothers reunited to direct together. They created a documentary about long time friend Vanessa Paradis’s: Divinidylle tour, and were awarded the Victoire de La Musique for their effort.

Thierry continued directing commercials for clients which included Peugeot, Pepsi, Canal Plus, Optus and many more.  He then directed an episode of Canal Plus’s mini-series “Goal of the Dead”.

He recently directed and co-wrote feature film ‘Alone’,  which premiered at BFI London Film Festival and received critical success, and he is due to receive a Oeil d’Or at Paris International Fantastic Film Festival.

Last year, Thierry received numerous advertising awards including one Bronze Cannes Lion, two Bronze Clio Awards for Canal Plus ‘The Battle’ and one Bronze Topcom for NF ‘The Stuntman’.

Thierry is currently in final stages of post-production on FRANCE 2’s (France’s National TV) ‘ZONE BLANCHE’, a stunning drama series that airs in spring 2017 of which he directed the first 4 episodes. He is also in development on a french-swedish co-production of Sci-fi TV series : ‘RARE’

Thierry reminisces: “I started with animation, filming some strange puppets in the garden” and the collection of awards he has picked up in the meantime is testament to how far he has come since his make-shift puppet days.