He gets a nomination to the Sept d'or for his portrayal of a divorced father who kidnaps his daughter in the TV movie Vacances volées (or Stolen Vacation), it was directed by Olivier Panchot.
[5] He also accompanies many filmmakers and directors from short to feature film, such as Laurent Firode (Les astres (The Stars) in 1998, Happenstance (The Butterfly's Wing Flapping) in 2000),[6] with Pierre-Erwan Guillaume in Bonne résistance à la douleur, (Good resistance to pain) in 1999 and L'Ennemi naturel (The Natural Enemy) in 2004.
Finally in 2002, he plays in the famous short film Squash directed by Lionel Bailliu, which was multi-award-winning in several festivals around the world, including the interpretation prize in Clermont-Ferrand.
Now occasionally called a chameleon actor, Éric Savin crosses many universes like those of Sébastien Lifshitz (The Cold lands (Telefilm in 1999), Presque rien (Almost nothing) in 2000, or Laetitia Colombani in À la folie... pas du tout (To the madness not at all) in 2002.
He works again also in 2002, with Xavier Durringer for Quoi dire de plus du coq (The Ears on the back), a TV movie for Arte, adapted from a short story by Georges Arnaud (who wrote The Wages of Fear), a pursuit race across the Amazon.
[12] In 2014, he is the very credible hierarchical superior sadistic of the subject heroine of Les Heures souterraines (The underground hours) a TV movie for Arte, directed by Philippe Harel taken from the eponymous novel by Delphine Le Vigan.