Olivier Peyon is a French screenwriter and film director, born in L'Haÿ-les-Roses, France, on January 23, 1969.

He went to college in Nantes to study Economics then returned to Paris where he began working as a production assistant, notably on films by Idrissa Ouedraogo.

[1] Then he translated English-language films for French distribution, including works by Coen Brothers[2](Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O'Brother, Intolerable Cruelty), Ken Loach (The Wind that shakes the barley), Stephen Frears (High Fidelity, The Hi-Lo Country), Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, A Life Less Ordinary), Jane Campion (Portrait of a Lady), as well as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Being John Malkovich, Notting Hill, The Usual Suspects and the TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

The second documentary is about Michel Onfray, a contemporary French philosopher who adheres to hedonism, atheism and anarchism, an author on philosophy with more than 50 written books translated in 30 countries.

Comment j'ai détesté les maths was also screened in front of an audience of 2000 at the 2014 ICM (International Congress of Mathematicians) in Seoul.