Julien Knafo studied film production at Concordia University. His student films won numerous awards. Then, in 1998, with the assistance of the SODEC – Jeunes Créateurs program, he wrote, directed and produced Noir, an 18-minute short film which on the Gold Award for Fantasy/Horror Short at Houston’s Worldfest and was placed on a favourites list by the France-Culture radio network when it was shown at the Off-Courts festival in Trouville-sur-Mer in 2001. At the same time, Knafo was developing his career as a composer by working on the music for his own films and those of his colleagues.