Alexis Lloyd

Alexis Lloyd (born in 1961) is a French film writer, director and producer best known for his film 30 Beats. He was Managing Director of Pathé UK.

Lloyd studied literature at the Ecole normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud (1981-1984) and public affairs at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and Ecole nationale d'administration (1986-1988). He holds a Master in Literature and a Master in Law. He served as a civil servant with the Inspection générale des finances (France) from 1988-1992 and taught foreign affairs at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).

Lloyd is the co-author with Antoine Winckler of L'Europe en Chantier published in 1993 by Éditions du Seuil that covers the history of the European Union. He also authored a number of op-ed articles on foreign affairs for the French daily newspaper Libération.

In 1993, Lloyd began working on film acquisition and development with Claude Berri, Paul Rassam and Jake Eberts, then on film sets as assistant director in Australia and New York. He moved to London in 1994 to run Guild Entertainment, an independent film distributor, then launched and became managing director of Pathé UK. At Pathé UK, Lloyd supervised the distribution operation, Pathé Distribution, and the production arm, Pathé Pictures, which won one of the three film franchises awarded by the Arts Council of England in May 1997.

During his years at Pathé UK, Lloyd was the executive producer of The Claim, It Was An Accident, There's Only One Jimmy Grimble, Love's Labour's Lost, and The Darkest Light.

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