Born in 1984 in Paris, Mikael Gaudin studied theater, economics and cinema before entering the Paris Louis Lumière school in 2009 in the cinema section. He then worked as an assistant director on films by Jacques Audiard, Volker Schlöndorff or Pierre Salvadori, before moving on to direct three short fiction films between 2018 and 2020. « Un Petit Homme » is his first animated film.