French film music specialist and historian, Stéphane Lerouge has conceived and produced the soundtrack series Ecoutez le cinéma ! (Listen to Films!) for Universal Music France, since 2000. The series includes rare and classic scores by Georges Delerue, Maurice Jarre, Antoine Duhamel, Lalo Schifrin, Ennio Morricone, John Barry, Quincy Jones, Howard Shore, John Williams and Michel Legrand. Stéphane Lerouge also hosts film music talks and lectures in European festivals and institutions (Festival de Cannes, Mostra di Venezia, Cinémathèque Française, Festival Lumière). In 2016, he worked on the music segments of Bertrand Tavernier's documentary My Journey Through French Cinema.

Sam Taylor is a literary translator and novelist. His five novels have reached an international audience, and his award-winning translations include works by Laurent Binet, Leïla Slimani and Marcel Proust. Born in England, Sam was a writer and editor at The Observer for eight years before spending a decade in France. He now lives in the United States with his family.