Hugues Gentillon (born December 17, 1974) is a Haitian film director, screenwriter, producer, and scientist.
[1] He is the founder of Yugy Pictures Entertainment, a film production company based in the United States.
[2][3][4] Gentillon was born on December 17, 1974, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti to Haitian parents.
As both his parents were entrepreneurs, he attended several private schools in Haiti until graduating from high school, when he left the country to attend university in the United States.
[11][12][13][14] A year later Gentillon attended the Festival de Cannes 2015, where he promoted and pre-marketed his film The Pearl of Wisdom, a fictional film loosely inspired by a series of events that took place during the Age of Reason (1600-1800).