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Jowan Le Besco

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Jowan Le Besco
Born (1981-08-26) 26 August 1981 (age 43)
Paris, France
Occupation(s)film director and cinematographer
MotherCatherine Belkhodja
FamilyIsild Le Besco
(sister)
Maïwenn Le Besco
(sister)
Kolia Litscher
(brother)

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

Family

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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

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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, The Untouchable, 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

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Cinematographer

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Feature films

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Cameraman

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Feature films

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Writer, director, cinematographer, editor

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Documentary

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Fiction

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Actor

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Cinema

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Television

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Other

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Feature films

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Short films

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Theater

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Awards and recognition

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References

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  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. 16 June 2007. 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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