Jean-Baptiste Durand

Nascimento : , France, EU

História

Born in 1985, Jean-Baptiste Durand grew up in Montpeyroux, a little village near Montpellier. After a difficult time in school, he nevertheless passed a literary baccalaureate with a speciality in art history. He went on to study at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier. He was firstly interested in painting and drawing, but his work evolved towards film. He made his first short fiction for his art school graduation, L'Amour sans le sexe, an autobiographical film about friendship, exploring the passionate relationship between three young people in a village. On leaving art college, he worked for a time as a technician on films as a stagehand, set constructer, assistant director and even actor. Alongside this he made some rap music videos and continued drawing. In 2014, his first short in a professional context, Il venait de Roumanie, was screened in several festival. He then made Même les choses invisibles se cachent (2016), a creative documentary on the contemporary artist Abdelkader Benchamma, for whom he had worked as an assistant for several years. His first feature, Chien de la casse, was selected for the screenplay reading at Premiers Plans in 2021.

Filmes

Junkyard Dog
Screenplay
Childhood pals Dog and Mirales live in a little village in the south of France and spend their days just hanging out. To kill time, Mirales has got into the habit of teasing Dog mercilessly. But this summer is different: Dog meets Elsa and romance blossoms. While jealousy eats away at Mirales, the distance that opens up between the two friends will allow each to grow and define himself.
Junkyard Dog
Director
Childhood pals Dog and Mirales live in a little village in the south of France and spend their days just hanging out. To kill time, Mirales has got into the habit of teasing Dog mercilessly. But this summer is different: Dog meets Elsa and romance blossoms. While jealousy eats away at Mirales, the distance that opens up between the two friends will allow each to grow and define himself.
Big Boy
Director of Photography
Sami and Julie, twenty-something, live together in a small village in the south of France. One evening, they get ready to shoot a clip for Sami's new song, but it looks like it's going to be more complicated than they expected.
Big Boy
Screenplay
Sami and Julie, twenty-something, live together in a small village in the south of France. One evening, they get ready to shoot a clip for Sami's new song, but it looks like it's going to be more complicated than they expected.
Big Boy
Director
Sami and Julie, twenty-something, live together in a small village in the south of France. One evening, they get ready to shoot a clip for Sami's new song, but it looks like it's going to be more complicated than they expected.
La cousinade
As Gege is leaving for Canada, the cousins gather on a stormy night in the family camper, drinking and playing childhood games: Truth or Dare ?
Le bal
Writer
Kader, the trainer of a teenage football team, refuses to see that Estelle has feelings for him. An outing to a nightclub with his best friend will perhaps enable him to see more clearly.
Le bal
Director
Kader, the trainer of a teenage football team, refuses to see that Estelle has feelings for him. An outing to a nightclub with his best friend will perhaps enable him to see more clearly.
Piano Panier
Director of Photography
Rémi, a young and open man, in his third year of law studies, tries to find his place in the student jungle of Saturday night. At the end of the evening, drunk, he encounters Lisa and they spend the night together.
Piano Panier
Screenplay
Rémi, a young and open man, in his third year of law studies, tries to find his place in the student jungle of Saturday night. At the end of the evening, drunk, he encounters Lisa and they spend the night together.
Piano Panier
Director
Rémi, a young and open man, in his third year of law studies, tries to find his place in the student jungle of Saturday night. At the end of the evening, drunk, he encounters Lisa and they spend the night together.
Il venait de Roumanie
Director
It is the life in a village, this cloistered world that produces stories, boredom, some necessary friendships, the author says. During a day, he paints a portrait of the past Clement with his band of mates, his parents, his sister, the stories told, the pictures in his house, his room intact and videos that remain of him.
Chaque jour est une petite vie
Assistant Director
Chaque jour est une petite vie
Momo