Jowan Le Besco

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Jowan Le Besco
Born (1981-08-26) 26 August 1981 (age 42)
Paris, France
Occupation(s)film director and cinematographer
Parent
Family Isild Le Besco
(sister)
Maïwenn Le Besco
(sister)
Kolia Litscher
(brother)

Jowan Le Besco is a director, cinematographer, screenwriter, editor and actor.

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Family

Le Besco was born to a Franco-Algerian mother, the actress Catherine Belkhodja, and Patrick Le Besco, a linguist specializing in the Breton language. His maternal grandfather, Abdelkader Belkhodja, a former FLN moudjahid based in France, was then in charge of emigration at the Ministry of Labor from 1965 to 1972, then at the Ministry of Former Moudjahidines until 1975 (Algeri)); his grandmother, Jeanne Mauborgne, a nurse and then a social worker, was, like her husband, a very active communist activist. He is the brother of two directors and actresses, Maïwenn and Isild Le Besco; he also has a third sister, Leonor Graser, and a brother, Kolia Litscher.[ citation needed ]

Career

Jowan Le Besco shoots his first professional film as director of photography, with Demi-tarif [1] released in 2004 and directed by his younger sister Isild Le Besco. The film won many awards in France and internationally and allowed them to produce the next film of Isild Le Besco: Charly [2] (2006). He then worked with directors and cinematographers such as Caroline Champetier, Romain Winding, Claire Mathon, Benoît Jacquot or Emmanuelle Bercot. At the same time as shooting, he followed training courses at the École nationale supérieure Institut Louis Lumière and the École de l'Image Les Gobelins. In 2006, he wrote and directed his first feature film, Yapo [3] [4] [5] (documentary filmed in India, in the Sikkim region) which earned it a selection at the 29th edition of the Cinéma du Réel Festival. The film, in a shorter version, will be broadcast in 2008 on the television channel Arte, in the prestigious slot dedicated to documentary La Lucarne, under the name Les béquilles du Lama Yapo. [6] [7] [8]

Jowan Le Besco [9] [10] [ unreliable source? ] [11] has worked as a director of photography and cameraman for films such as Polisse , Mon roi , Connemara , Lomepal: 3 jours à Motorbass, Les Deux Amis , L'Intouchable , Bas-fonds , La Belle Occasion , Confinés. He also works regularly in the field of music and performing arts, notably as a director and cinematographer: the Opéra National de Paris, Pédro Kouyaté, the Orchestre national de Barbès, Tartit, Bania, Farees, Ghassen Fendri, Senny Camara.

Filmography

Cinematographer

Feature films

Cameraman

Feature films

Writer, director, cinematographer, editor

Documentary

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Television

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Short films

Theater

Awards and recognition

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