Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Directing · Born 1953-09-03 in Roanne, Loire, France

Biography

Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a French film director and screenwriter known for the films Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, Alien: Resurrection and Amélie. Jean-Pierre Jeunet was born in Roanne, Loire, France. He bought his first camera at the age of 17 and made short films while studying animation at Cinémation Studios. He befriended Marc Caro, a designer and comic book artist who became his longtime collaborator and co-director. They met at an animation festival in Annecy in 1974. Together, Jeunet and Caro directed award-winning animations. Their first live action film was The Bunker of the Last Gunshots (1981), a short film about soldiers in a bleak futuristic world. Jeunet also directed numerous advertisements and music videos, such as Jean Michel Jarre's Zoolook (together with Caro).…

Filmography

• Amélie: The Real Story as Self
• One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection as Self
• The Extraordinary Voyage as Self - Filmmaker
• Riding a Train of Thoughts as Self
• No Rest for Billy Brakko
• The Alien Saga as Self (archive footage)
• The Bunker of the Last Gunshots
• Alien: Terror in Space as Self - Filmmaker
• The Original+ as Self - Guest