Jean-Gabriel Leynaud
Camera
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.
Known for
The Cat: A Cuddly Killer
June 3, 2019
The Arctic: 66.5 Degrees North
January 13, 2023
The Fantasy Life of Poetry and Crime
March 18, 2022
Nelson Mandela, Beyond the Myth
October 26, 2019
Of Mud and Blood
August 27, 2025
La Vie sans Brahim
January 10, 2003
Greenland: The Icy Eldorado
December 23, 2025
A Woman in Antarctica
November 10, 2000
Sauvage
February 2, 2022
Ever, rêve, Helene Cixous
February 4, 2018
Behind the camera10
- 2025Greenland: The Icy Eldorado Director of Photography
- 2025Of Mud and Blood Director of Photography, Writer, Director
- 2023The Arctic: 66.5 Degrees North Additional Camera
- 2022The Fantasy Life of Poetry and Crime Camera Operator
- 2022Sauvage Cinematography
- 2019Nelson Mandela, Beyond the Myth Director of Photography
- 2019The Cat: A Cuddly Killer Director of Photography
- 2018Ever, rêve, Helene Cixous Cinematography
- 2003La Vie sans Brahim Cinematography
- 2000