Dylan Besseau

Last updated
Dylan Besseau
Born
Dylan Besseau

(1997-09-15) September 15, 1997 (age 27)
Vietnam
NationalityFrench
EducationInstitution Saint-Gabriel/Saint-Michel
Occupation(s)film director, film producer
Years active2019–present
Notable workLa légende de Thierry Mauvignier, The Venus Chained
AwardsHonorable Mention at SWIFF 2023

Dylan Besseau (born September 15, 1997) is a French filmmaker [1] and producer born in Vietnam. [2] [3] He won an honorable mention at SWIFF 2023 and selected for the Justice Documentary Festival Paris 2023.

Contents

Education

He followed his schooling at the private Catholic institution Saint-Gabriel/Saint-Michel in the commune of Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre. He obtained his general baccalaureate ES at the private high school of Brittany in 2014. [4] Then, he began a university course at the faculty of law in Nantes in 2015, [4] but abandoned his studies to reorient himself to study cinema in art school, after being struck by seeing the film The Handmaiden. [2]

Career

In 2018, he studies in art school. The same year, he followed audiovisual internships in various associations, where he carried out some projects in co-production with France 3 Pays de la Loire. [2]
In 2019, he began his career with director Jean-Yves Bilien. [5] He directs the short film The Sozo Girl and Happiness [2] based on the song Like a Blooming Season in collaboration with Shin Hae Gyeong. [6]
In 2021, he created the audiovisual agency Artwooks Media [2] and directed the feature-length documentary La légende de Thierry Mauvignier [1] about the director Thierry Mauvignier, distributed on Prime Video [7] [8] .

Through this film, he is portrayed as a filmmaker who :

Seems to share with us, nonetheless, a question that he appears to carry finding his more personal voice through a prescribed exercise, one in which he doesn't seem entirely comfortable or in agreement. The result, in any case, reflects this internal conflict, as the film grapples with two conflicting aspirations: the commissioned, marketing-driven objective and the desire of a young filmmaker attempting to bring forth his unique perspective.

— Reported by Frédéric Rougeot [9]

According to The Source  :

The cinematographic influence of Dylan Besseau could be characterized by directors such as Kwak Jae-yong, Park Chan-wook, Wong Kar-wai, Martin Scorsese, and Chantal Akerman. In terms of form, particularly in the photography of his films, there is an attempt to highlight the entirety and composition of the shots, something inherited from Asian cinema.

— Reported by Sha Be Allah [10]

In 2022, he created the Wooksart Foundation, [1] a charitable audiovisual association bringing together around thirty members that will produce a short documentary film on Rotary International.
In 2023, he produced the documentary The Venus Chained which won the honorable mention at the SWIFF 2023 [11] then, he directed the documentary Anne Bouillon : Justice for women [1] with the french lawyer Anne Bouillon [12] whose musical soundtrack composed by Keziah Chamsidini, the son of M'Toro Chamou  [ fr ].[ citation needed ] This film will be selected at the Justice Documentary Festival,. [13] he's the youngest director in the selection of the first new edition. [14]
In 2024, he directed the film Gevart [15] "a film delicately representing a tutelary figure of a doctor" according to Bande à part (magazine). [16] He began directing the film Blast Punch [10] and produced the documentary Makiko on Makiko Furuichi. [17]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2019Happiness.Director Short film
2019Dreamhour - Better FriendsDirectorShort film
2021La légende de Thierry MauvignierDirector Feature film
2022The Sozo GirlDirectorShort film
2023Castle's LightDirectorShort film
2023Anne Bouillon : Justice for womenDirector Medium-length film
2023 The Venus Chained producerMedium-length film
2024 Gevart DirectorMedium-length film
2025 Makiko ProducerFeature film
2026 Blast Punch DirectorFeature film

Distinctions

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou</span> Annual film festival held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

The Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou is a film festival in Burkina Faso, held biennially in Ouagadougou, where the organization is based. It accepts for competition only films by African filmmakers and chiefly produced in Africa. FESPACO is scheduled in March every second year, two weeks after the last Saturday of February. Its opening night is held in the Stade du 4-Août, the national stadium.

Philippe Grandrieux is a French film director and screenwriter. He studied film at the INSAS in Belgium. In 1976, he exhibited his first video work at Galerie Albert Baronian, Bruxelles.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Benoît Bringer</span>

Benoît Bringer is a French filmmaker, author and former reporter and investigative journalist. Among others, his documentaries have been selected in prestigious festivals such as the Hotdocs in Canada, DOC NYC and Palm Spring Film Festival in USA, Raindance Film Festival in UK, CPH:DOX in Denmark, Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece or the french leading documentary festival FIPADOC. In a highly cinematic style, his films tell inspiring, often intimate stories.

Guy Kabeya Muya is a filmmaker from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was co-director with Monique Mbeka Phoba of the 2007 documentary Entre la coupe et l'élection.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Laurent Mauvignier</span> French writer (born 1967)

Laurent Mauvignier is a French writer. He is the brother of the director Thierry Mauvignier.

L'Œil d'or, le prix du documentaire — Cannes is a documentary film award created in 2015. It is awarded to the best documentary presented in one of the sections of the Cannes Film Festival.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Antoine de Maximy</span> French backpacker, television host and producer

Antoine de Maximy is a French television host, director, journalist, and war correspondent, born on 21 May 1959 in Lyon.

<i>Starless Dreams</i> 2016 Iranian film

Starless Dreams is a 2016 Iranian documentary directed by Mehrdad Oskouei.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hicham Lasri</span> Moroccan film director

Hicham Lasri is a Moroccan comics artist, film director, novelist, producer and screenwriter. He has a special imprint on Moroccan cinema, as his films often deal with topics that are considered taboo in Moroccan society with great boldness.

Amédée Pacôme Nkoulou is a Gabonese film director.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mounia Meddour</span> Franco-Algerian film director (born 1978)

Mounia Meddour is a Franco-Algerian film director.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rosine Mbakam</span> Cameroonian film director (born 1980)

Rosine Mbakam is a Cameroonian film director based in Belgium. She has directed many short films and full-length documentaries. Les deux visages d'une femme Bamiléké/The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman (2016) and Chez Jolie Coiffure (2018) won a number of international prizes. Les prières de Delphine/Delphine’s Prayers (2021) gained international attention, including reviews in The New York Times, The New Yorker, LA Times, Variety, and NPR. With Mambar Pierrette, Mbakam made her feature film debut in 2023.

<i>Heart of Oak</i> (film) 2022 film by Laurent Charbonnier and Michel Seydoux

Heart of Oak is a 2022 French nature documentary film directed by Laurent Charbonnier and Michel Seydoux. It is about an oak tree and the animals that live in it, portrayed without spoken commentary.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anne Bouillon</span> French lawyer (born 1972)

Anne Bouillon is a French lawyer born in 1972 specializing in women's rights. She is registered with the bar of Nantes. According to GQ she was the most powerful lawyer in France in 2019.

Gahité Fofana is a Guinean film director, producer, editor, actor and screen writer who studied literature and filmmaking in Paris. Starting out as a creator of documentary films, he later wrote, directed and produced feature films.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Justice Documentary Festival Paris</span>

The Justice Documentary Festival Paris, among the longest-standing French judicial festivals, unites a collection of documentaries focused on the theme of Justice and presents both a Jury Grand Prize and a Public Grand Prize.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thierry Mauvignier</span>

Thierry Mauvignier, born in Tours in 1965, is a French director and documentary filmmaker. He is the brother of writer Laurent Mauvignier. He began his career as a projectionist for Futuroscope and made a few short films for France 3 before embarking on documentaries and fiction.

The Venus Chained is a French documentary film produced by Wooksart, Jacob Rothschild and Dylan Besseau, and directed by Guillaume Gevart.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Makiko Furuichi</span> Visual artist

Makiko Furuichi is a visual artist and French Painter.

Guillaume Gevart is a French producer and director. He won an honorable mention at SWIFF 2023 for his film The Venus Chained.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Frédéric Rougeot (31 January 2024). "Trouver sa voie, faire entendre d'autres voix". Le Mag Cinéma (in French).
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Alicia Baca Mondéjar. "Le réalisateur Dylan Besseau sur les traces de la Corée : l'audiovisuel d'aujourd'hui" (in French).on Korea.net
  3. ↑ "ISNI Data Bibliothèque National de France". Bibliothèque nationale de France (in French).
  4. 1 2 Alain R. "The humanism of French director Dylan Besseau".on BNN
  5. ↑ Hassan Javed (6 October 2023). "Dylan Besseau, 26 years old French producer gets honorable mention at Student World Impact Film Festival 2023". Film Daily.
  6. ↑ Malvika Padin (7 March 2024). "Baek Seung Won, Dylan Besseau, HIGHGRND: The legacy of Asian cinema in music videos". Earmilk .
  7. ↑ David Charrier (3 October 2023). "La Légende de Thierry Mauvignier : une aventure cinématographique à petit budget". JustFocus (in French).
  8. ↑ Vincent Mollier (14 March 2024). "La légende de Thierry Mauvignier, une histoire à dormir debout – Critique". Le Blog du Cinéma (in French).
  9. ↑ Trouver sa voie, faire entendre d’autres voix on Le Mag Cinéma
  10. 1 2 Dylan Besseau, The MMA And The Aesthetics Of Violence on The Source
  11. 1 2 Julie Hofman. "The Chained Venus: behind the scenes of French prostitution". APNnews.com.
  12. ↑ Caroline. "Nantes. Dylan Besseau dévoile le combat féministe d'Anne Bouillon dans son nouveau documentaire". France Live  [ fr ] (in French).
  13. ↑ Margaux d'Adhénor (17 September 2023). "Le conseil culture" (in French).on Le Figaro
  14. ↑ "Le festival du documentaire sur la justice aura lieu du 18 au 21 septembre 2023". JustFocus (in French). 4 September 2023.
  15. ↑ Bryson Paul. "Gevart: An Intimate Look Into A Doctor's Life By Guillaume Gevart And Dylan Besseau, Available On Prime Video". Substream magazine.
  16. ↑ Hélène Robert. "État Limite de Nicolas Peduzzi : Sisyphe chez les " fous "". Bande à part (in French).
  17. ↑ José Villarreal. "Antoine Godet paints the portrait of Makiko Furuichi". on Art Daily
  18. ↑ The Paus Premieres Festival Presents: 'The Sozo Girl' by Dylan Besseau Archived 2023-10-21 at the Wayback Machine on allevent.com
  19. ↑ Festival Programmation Archived 2023-10-21 at the Wayback Machine on avocatparis.org
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.