Nabil Djedouani born in SaintEtienne in 1984 is a FrenchAlgerian director actor and researcher After a Master II in cinema studies at the Louis Lumière University in Lyon he codirected a documentary film with Hassen Ferhani entitled Afric Hôtel 2010 He then worked with filmmaker Rabah AmeurZaïmeche as an assistant director and actor for the films Histoire de Judas 2015 and Terminal Sud 2019 In 2012 he created the Algerian Cinema Digital Archives site to make forgotten Algerian cinematographic works that he collects and restores available to everyone on his Facebook page and his YouTube channel Then he began research and dissemination work around Algerian music via the Raï Folk platform In 2019 he produced a documentary essay entitled Rock Against Police In 2022 he obtained a professional qualification certificate as a digital image restorer from the National Audiovisual Institute