French filmmaker.

Jean-Gabriel LEYNAUD is a film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.

He is known for LE SANG ET LA BOUE - OF MUD AND BLOOD (2025), "Une place dans la République" (2006), "Under The Stones of Gaza" (2006), "A woman in Antarctica" (2000), "Everest Eyes Wide Open" (1999).

An AFC Best Cinema Documentary Cinematography 2025 nominee (French ASC Awards) for "Toxicily".


Cinematographer of over 100 documentaries, fictions, commercials, and music videos that have won more than 40 International Awards (2 for best Cinematography) and have been released in theaters and on the biggest international broadcasters (NETFLIX, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, Arte, France TV, HBO, DR, SBS, NHK, BBC...)

Jean-Gabriel Leynaud is an award-winning director and cinematographer with extensive experience in cinema and television, both on fictions and documentaries for platforms such as Arte, Netflix, National Geographic, France TV, Canal+, NHK, PBS.
With over 20 films shot in Africa, Of Mud and Blood marks his sixth project in the Kivu province of Eastern Congo (DRC). Initially drawn to the region to film its active volcanoes and wildlife, he was profoundly moved by the stark realities faced by its inhabitants, who have endured decades of relentless conflict. To authentically capture the life of an isolated mining village in a conflict zone, he assembled a team of Congolese researchers led by Josaphat Musamba, a renowned anthropologist expert in armed conflict and mineral resource governance in the DRC.
Inspired by his previous work following young homeless drug addicts over several years, he spent an extended period in the village of Numbi, allowing him to intimately document the characters' lives, and to reveal the harsh realities they endure to fuel the global demand for the latest technology.



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► Africiné Magazine (Dakar)
► https://ccadiff.ukzn.ac.za/diff46/of-mud-and-blood/
► https://nextfilmdistribution.com/jean-gabriel-leynaud/
► https://nextfilmdistribution.com/le-sang-et-la-boue/
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