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