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Nicolas Belaïdi
Broadcast & sport lighting • Live events • Festivals • TV • Innovation
Lighting design & Rigging engineering for major live and broadcast events
Lighting Designer & Director of Photography across TV and live events. Focus on broadcast/sport lighting quality and athlete comfort. International experience in France, Europe and Asia, with a long track record in festivals, corporate and venue shows.
Works
Lighting & Rigging — selected
Paris 2024 — Broadcast Lighting (Field of Play)
Role: Senior Project Head – Engineering Lighting & Rigging • Jan 2023 → Nov 2024
Festivals & Paris venues — selection
Role: Technical Director (Lighitng Designer, Lighitng operator)
Festivals: Interceltique de Lorient, Vieilles Charrues, La Route du Rock, Transmusicales de Rennes, Bout du Monde, Les Tombées de la Nuit, Cornouaille, Astropolis, Art Rock, Chants de Marins (Paimpol), Fête du Bruit (Landerneau), Étonnants Voyageurs, Quai des Bulles, Roi Arthur, Au Pont du Rock, Panoramas, Les Escales (St‑Nazaire), Printemps de Bourges, Francofolies (La Rochelle).
Paris venues: La Cigale, Le Bataclan, L’Élysée Montmartre, Le Trianon, La Maroquinerie, Le Grand Rex, Salle Pleyel, Le Divan du Monde, La Boule Noire, Casino de Paris, Le Batofar, Le Point Éphémère, Le Café de la Danse, La Gaîté Lyrique, Le Cabaret Sauvage.
Private TV Studio — Goldman Sachs (Hong Kong)
Role: Studio Designer (set) & Director of Photography / Lighting Operator
End‑to‑end studio design and lighting operation for a corporate TV event.
Brand & gala events — selection
Hong Kong • Macau • Vietnam • Indonesia • Europe
Notable: Moët & Chandon, Dom Pérignon, Rolls‑Royce, K11, Tatler Ball (HK), DFS Masters (Macau), Chow Tai Fook, HSBC, Goldman Sachs, Magnetic Asia, Longines, Kenzo, Shiseido, La Prairie, Hennessy, Audi, CBRE, amfAR Gala Hong Kong, TEDx, Clockenflap.
Naropa Festival 2018 — Himalaya (Ladakh, India)
Role: Technical Director (lighting & rigging)
Outdoor stage at monastery, ~3,500m altitude: wind/temperature constraints; rigging safety and broadcast levels coordination.
Paris 2024 — Broadcast Lighting (Field of Play)
Role: Senior Project Head – Engineering Lighting & Rigging • Jan 2023 → Nov 2024
Private TV Studio — Goldman Sachs (Hong Kong)
Role: Studio Designer (set) & Director of Photography / Lighting Operator
End‑to‑end studio design and lighting operation for a corporate TV event.
Naropa Festival — Ladakh, Himalaya (2018)
Role: Technical Director (lighting & rigging)
Outdoor stage at monastery, ~3,500m altitude: wind/temperature constraints; rigging safety and broadcast levels coordination.
Festivals & Paris venues — selection
Role: Technical Director (lighting & rigging)
Festivals: Interceltique de Lorient, Vieilles Charrues, La Route du Rock, Transmusicales de Rennes, Bout du Monde, Les Tombées de la Nuit, Cornouaille, Astropolis, Art Rock, Chants de Marins (Paimpol), Fête du Bruit (Landerneau), Étonnants Voyageurs, Quai des Bulles, Roi Arthur, Au Pont du Rock, Panoramas, Les Escales (St‑Nazaire), Printemps de Bourges, Francofolies (La Rochelle).
Paris venues: La Cigale, Le Bataclan, L’Élysée Montmartre, Le Trianon, La Maroquinerie, Le Grand Rex, Salle Pleyel, Le Divan du Monde, La Boule Noire, Casino de Paris, Le Batofar, Le Point Éphémère, Le Café de la Danse, La Gaîté Lyrique, Le Cabaret Sauvage.
Private TV Studio — Goldman Sachs (Hong Kong)
Role: Studio Designer (set) & Director of Photography / Lighting Operator
End‑to‑end studio design and lighting operation for a corporate TV event.
Brand & gala events — selection
Hong Kong • Macau • Vietnam • Indonesia • Europe
Notable: Moët & Chandon, Dom Pérignon, Rolls‑Royce, K11, Tatler Ball (HK), DFS Masters (Macau), Chow Tai Fook, HSBC, Goldman Sachs, Magnetic Asia, Longines, Kenzo, Shiseido, La Prairie, Hennessy, Audi, CBRE, amfAR Gala Hong Kong, TEDx, Clockenflap.
INNOVATION
M8trix is Innovation
M8TRIX by PanelOled
Stage OLED lighting module developed with PanelOled. Public presentations and demos below.
The first organic LED (OLED) stage light in the world, M8trix® offers ultra-slim LED designs that are suitable for stage, event, and architectural applications. Made up of 64 OLED panels from LG Display, the panels output up to 2,240 lumens of power distributions closest to sunlight. Operation is flicker-free, and CRI is greater than 90.
TV — Light operator / Director of Photography
- “Y’a pas que la télé !” — France 3 Ouest (2005–2006) — Lighting Designer/Operator — Prod: France 3 Ouest / Arsenal Associés.
- “Fêtes Escales” — TV Breizh (2003–2006) — Lighting Designer/Operator — Prod: Arsenal Associés.
- Private TV Studio — Goldman Sachs (Hong Kong) — Studio Designer (set) & DoP / Lighting Operator (corporate TV event).
