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Jean-Gabriel Leynaud
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 ma…
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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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2025
Greenland: The Icy Eldorado
Movie Director of Photography
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2025
Of Mud and Blood
Movie Director of Photography
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2023
The Arctic: 66.5 Degrees North
Movie Additional Camera
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2022
The Fantasy Life of Poetry and Crime
Movie Camera Operator
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2022
Sauvage
Movie Cinematography
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2019
Nelson Mandela, Beyond the Myth
Movie Director of Photography
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2019
The Cat: A Cuddly Killer
Movie Director of Photography
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2018
Ever, rêve, Helene Cixous
Movie Cinematography
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2006
Infrarouge
TV show Director
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2003
La Vie sans Brahim
Movie Cinematography
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2000
A Woman in Antarctica
Movie Director
