Marc Christie is an associate professor at University of Rennes 1. His research is focuses on virtual cinematography which is the application of real cinematography techniques to virtual 3D environments. The research covers a wide range of challenges such as extracting data from real-movies, learning elements of film style (types of transitions, continuity between shots, editing patterns, camera behaviors), proposing models and techniques to re-apply the learnt elements to virtual contents, computing camera angles and trajectories as well as optimal edits. He co-authored 50+ conference papers on these topic, and led courses at Eurographics and Siggraph Asia.