Rachid Bouchareb is a French film director of Algerian descent. From 1977 to 1983, he worked as an assistant director for France’s state television production company, Société française de production. Subsequetly, he worked for broadcasters TF1 and Antenne 2. He formed a production company called 3B with his associate Jean Bréhat in 1988. Bouchareb began making short films in the 1980s. His featured film debut came in 1985.