- Has supported Lionel Jospins 2002 presidential campaign.
- Also jazz fest creator.
- Cassenti was a French stage and film director and screenwriter.
- In 1969, Frank Cassenti alongside Michèle Annie Mercier directed his first short fiction film , Flash Parc , indirectly produced by Jean-Luc Godard , which was selected at Cannes for the Directors' Fortnight.
- From the 1990s, Frank Cassenti made documentaries for Arte on music, in South Africa on Zulu songs and dances, and on great jazz figures, Miles Davis , Dizzy Gillespie , Max Roach , Ray Charles , Nina Simone , Abbey Lincoln.
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