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

Jowan Le Besco is a director, cinematographer, screenwriter, editor and actor Franco-Algerian born on 26 August 1981.

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.

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][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

Fiction

Actor

Cinema

Television

Other

Feature films

Short films

Theater

Awards and recognition

References

  1. ↑ "Demi-tarif". www.unifrance.org. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  2. ↑ "Charly (2006)". www.unifrance.org. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  3. ↑ "Yapo (2006)". www.unifrance.org. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  4. ↑ "Yapo". Centre Pompidou. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  5. ↑ ""Yapo" - TV Broadcasting". Cinéma du réel. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  6. ↑ "ARDECHE IMAGES - Les Béquilles du Lama Yapo". www.lussasdoc. org. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  7. ↑ "Tamasa Diffusion DVD & Blu-ray Shop Yapo, the Lama's Crutches". www.tamasa-cinema. com. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  8. ↑ "The Crutches of the Lama Yapo". Le Monde.fr. 16 May 2008. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  9. ↑ AlloCine. "Jowan Le Besco". AlloCiné. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  10. ↑ "Jowan Le Besco". IMDb. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  11. ↑ "Jowan Le Besco". www.unifrance org. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  12. ↑ "Yapo, les béquilles du lama". AlloCine (in French). Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  13. ↑ Stéphane, Loison. "" LES BÉQUILLES DU LAMA YAPO ": LE TEMPS SUSPENDU ! – Vieille Carne" (in French). Retrieved 2 August 2022.
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