Camera
Jean-Gabriel Leynaud
10 films
Bio
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.
Filmography
Greenland: The Icy Eldorado
Director of Photography
Sauvage
Cinematography
The Cat: A Cuddly Killer
Director of Photography
Of Mud and Blood
Director of Photography
La Vie sans Brahim
Cinematography
The Arctic: 66.5 Degrees North
Additional Camera
Ever, rêve, Helene Cixous
Cinematography
A Woman in Antarctica
Director
Nelson Mandela, Beyond the Myth
Director of Photography
The Fantasy Life of Poetry and Crime
Camera Operator