Jean-Gabriel Leynaud began his career in filmmaking at a very young age, pursuing a career as a camera assistant in fiction and as a cinematographer in documentaries. At 19, he made his first film, Place de la République, in which he followed two young homeless drug addicts for a year. Since then, he has directed around fifteen documentaries. He has also directed more than sixty documentaries for cinema, television, as well as fiction and commercials. His films have been selected for major festivals (Venice, Sundance, Tribeca, FIPA, etc.) and screened at the Cinémathèque Française and the ASC. He was nominated in 2025 for best documentary photography at the AFC awards.
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Groenland, L'Eldorado des glaces (2025) Director of Photography |
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Le sang et la boue (2025) Director |
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Le sang et la boue (2025) Writer |
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Le sang et la boue (2025) Director of Photography |
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Die Arktis - 66,5 Grad Nord (2023) Additional Camera |
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The Fantasy Life of Poetry and Crime (2022) Camera Operator |
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Sauvage (2022) Cinematography |
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Mandela, un symbole contre l'apartheid (2019) Director of Photography |
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Le Chat, ce tueur si mignon (2019) Director of Photography |
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Ever, rêve, Helene Cixous (2018) Cinematography |
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La Vie sans Brahim (2003) Cinematography |
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Seule en antarctique (2000) Director |