Jean, Jean-CLAUDE

(November 13, 1959, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France - )

   He earned a master's degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Cinematographic Arts and started out as a musician (three records and two musical videos).

   After shooting several reports all over the world for French TV, in 1993 he created his production company, Key Light, which notably financed his own films and those of Dominique Choisy (2000 Confort moderne), Sylvaine Rathier (2002 Les Habits vieux de l'Empereur, documentary), Luc Gétreau (2003 Le Piroguier blanc), and Charlotte Silvera (2006 Nos chères Têtes blondes). Seen as an actor in L'Homme sur les Quais / UK and USA: The Man by the Shore / The Man on the Shore (Raoul Peck, France / Canada), he also authored several plays (Lomoza; Monologue à trois; Les Guichets du Diable).

 Filmography

1994 ◘ Une Vie en Couleurs (documentary; also delegate producer)

1998 ◘ On ne va nulle part et c'est très bien (also screenwriter, dialogist, delegate producer; shot in 1996)

2000 ◘ Le Mystère Gilot (documentary; short; also delegate producer)

        ◘ Juliettes et Roméos (documentary; also del­egate producer)

        ◘ Le Ministère des Neiges (documentary; also co-screenwriter, delegate producer)

        ◘ Vendues (also co-screenwriter, dialogist, producer)

2006 ◘ L'Eldorado de Tarzenat (documentary; also delegate producer)