Pierre-Louis Umdenstock is a writer-director, editor, and VFX artist based in Finland and France.
He graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in Paris and also studied filmmaking at Columbia College Chicago. He began making short films in 2005 and later co-founded the collective L’Atelier 321. In 2013, he was selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus and was a finalist in the Script Pitch competition at Interfilm Berlin. He later took part in the 48-Hour Screenwriting Marathon at the Valence International Screenwriters Festival (2016). In 2018, he won the De l’écrit à l’écran screenwriting contest and directed Sprain, a short film awarded at the 48h Film Project and selected to several international festivals.
His latest short, The Rooster, produced by Empire Pictures, was completed in 2025.