Sylvain White is a French-born film director who has graduated from La Sorbonne University, and has won many awards for his work in short films after graduation. He has directed 17 films including The Losers, Stomp the Yard, and The Mark of the Angels-Miserere. He is associated with the 2018 English supernatural-horror Slender Man, starring Joey King, Javier Botet, Julia Goldani Telles, Jaz Sinclair and Annalise Basso.