Press
Composite Films is a Paris-based archive footage colorization and restoration studio, founded in 2013 by Samuel François-Steininger. Its images have been broadcast on Netflix, Apple TV, HBO, Disney+, the BBC, Smithsonian Channel and France Télévisions, and released in cinemas with Pathé's De Gaulle – Résistance and De Gaulle – Liberté. Press contact: hello@compositefilms.fr.
Press coverage
- 08/10/2026 · Variety · Wim Wenders Boards Peter Lindbergh Documentary ‘Truth:Beauty’ — Elsa Keslassy · produced by Human Humans in association with Composite Films
- 21/09/2026 · Écran Total · Wim Wenders joins Truth:Beauty as executive producer (in French) — produced by Human Humans in association with Composite Films
- 09/09/2025 · Paris Select Book · Véronique: an intimate portrait of Véronique Sanson by Tom Volf (in French) — archives restored by Composite Films
- 02/07/2025 · French Ministry of Culture · Strategy for cultural and responsible artificial intelligence (p. 19, in French) — Composite Films among four flagship projects
- 2025 · Visual Studies, vol. 40 no. 1 · Colourised histories — special academic issue on colourisation
- 05/07/2024 · Écran Total · Colorization and restoration: is AI still a little colour-blind? (in French) — Thomas Laborde
- 13/11/2023 · Classic FM · Historic footage of Maria Callas’ 1958 Paris gala is restored and colourised
- 11/10/2023 · Gramophone · Watch the trailer of Callas – Paris, 1958
- 11/10/2023 · BroadwayWorld · Watch a Preview of Maria Callas’ Restored Paris 1958 Performance
- 11/2023 · Seen and Heard International · Fully restored Callas – Paris, 1958
- 22/09/2023 · The Arts Shelf · New 4K full-colour restoration of Callas – Paris, 1958
- 09/2021 · AFP, Live Science, IFLScience, Gizmodo · Last known footage of the Tasmanian tiger colourised for the NFSA
- 2021 · Épistémocritique, vol. 19 · The colorization of archive films: the example of the production company Composite Films (in French) — Corinne Doria, Clara Bleuzen
- 10/03/2021 · The Australian · Australia in Colour — Matthew Westwood
- 2020 · Broadcast · Bringing Tutankhamun to life in colour
- 2019 · NFSA · Australia in Colour, landmark SBS series
- 28/02/2019 · SBS Guide · How Australia in Colour brought our nation’s past into the present
- 21/07/2017 · La Lettre de l’Audiovisuel n° 6461 · Interview with Samuel François-Steininger (in French)
- 14/07/2017 · TV Technology · Colorizing History — Michael Balderston
- 30/06/2017 · New York Post · 50 Shades of Grey — Michael Starr
- 29/06/2017 · Smithsonian Magazine · Colorized footage of the 1920s
- 05/2017 · Realscreen · In living color — Darah Hansen