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Description

Desire to win the hearts of your clients or members? To create an imaginary around your vision and your projects?

Need to move away from pompous speeches, formatted and overused language?

Want original content that breaks the mold, or to explain complex issues in a few words?

Call on Maxime Pourbaix!

A rare bird descended from an ancient lineage of scribes, bards, and poets, usually observed in the forests of northern France, Maxime Pourbaix is part of a curious species: creative creatures.

His nature: to tell stories, to start from a fragment to build a whole narrative, to find the right words to capture the attention of his audience.

Scientists have observed an abundant quantity of styles in his DNA that will, for sure, help you successfully complete your communication projects.

Trained in writing for images and directing, and rich with extensive experience in both copywriting and audiovisual creation, he makes this dual expertise a strength to propel you across all media and help you find the right tone.

Simplification, brand discourse, LOL communication, baseline, hooks, slogans, comic strip scripts, music video or motion design scripts, the possibilities are endless.

Together, let's find the bold words, the words that resonate, the words that represent you.

My areas of expertise: Culture, social and solidarity economy, ecological transition, territorial projects.

However, this is not an exhaustive and closed list; the core of my job is to tackle a subject, whatever its complexity, and to explain it in a fun way.

I am based in Lille, but working from home, I accept assignments throughout the French-speaking world.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

Dunforce
On Malt
Writer - Simplifier
October 2022 - November 2022 (1 month)
Writing of a technical memorandum for a tender.
Presentation of the Dunforce automatic collection solution for social landlords.
Highlighting the benefits.
Simplification to understand the challenges of automation and how the solution works.
Writing of the schedule and strategy.
Advice on the administrative part of the response.

Simplification Content Writing Rewriting Proofreading Writing
Crickett Pictures
Author-Director
FILM AND AV
September 2009 - Today (16 years and 9 months)
Lille, France
Crickett Pictures is an audiovisual creation association that allows me to give free rein to my cinematic experiments. It's impossible to list here the 1001 projects shot in a few hours with a handheld camera. Nevertheless, it is thanks to Crickett that I was able to professionalize in this sector. I wrote, directed, and produced two medium-length films there: Hétérox and Les Chevalières du Zodiaque, in partnership with Pictanovo, Région Hauts-de-France.
Copywriting Video Production Video Editing Audiovisual Production
Bien fait Pour Ta Com'
Communicator
CONSULTING AND AUDITS
February 2016 - June 2021 (5 years and 5 months)
Lille, France
Co-founder of the cooperative and administrator.

All-terrain communicator with dual expertise as a copywriter and video project manager.

Copywriter:
Simplification, brand discourse, LOL communication, baseline, hooks, slogans, comic strip scripts, storyboards, brochures.
Client selection: La CRESS, LMA, Ville de Raismes, GAGN, Plurélya, Syndicat des Métiers de l'Animation. Internally, writing the company's brand discourse.

Video Project Manager:
Co-creation workshops, scriptwriting, production and post-production organization, directing, staging, actor direction. Sketches, portraits, simplification videos, motion design.
Client selection: Ville de Besançon, Ville de Dugny, Ville de Liévin, Mission Bassin Minier, Sia Habitat, Enercoop, PLIE de Béthune, la Métropole Européenne de Lille, K-Pa-Cité...
Copywriting Video Production Video Editing