
Person
Jean-Gabriel Leynaud
Camera
Biography
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

Infrarouge
Director

Sauvage
Cinematography

Greenland: The Icy Eldorado
Director of Photography

The Cat: A Cuddly Killer
Director of Photography

Of Mud and Blood
Director of Photography

La Vie sans Brahim
Cinematography

Ever, rêve, Helene Cixous
Cinematography

A Woman in Antarctica
Director

The Arctic: 66.5 Degrees North
Additional Camera

Nelson Mandela, Beyond the Myth
Director of Photography
Filmography
- 2025Greenland: The Icy EldoradoDirector of Photography
- 2025Of Mud and BloodDirector of Photography
- 2023The Arctic: 66.5 Degrees NorthAdditional Camera
- 2022The Fantasy Life of Poetry and CrimeCamera Operator
- 2022SauvageCinematography
- 2019Nelson Mandela, Beyond the MythDirector of Photography
- 2019The Cat: A Cuddly KillerDirector of Photography
- 2018Ever, rêve, Helene CixousCinematography
- 2006InfrarougeDirector
- 2003La Vie sans BrahimCinematography
- 2000A Woman in AntarcticaDirector
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