Jaad
Gaillet
Jaad Gaillet

About the Author

Background

Jaad Gaillet is a French-Moroccan director who grew up in Paris. He combined his studies in mechanical engineering at the University Pierre et Marie Curie with studies in anthropology at the MNHN and the Cinéma du Réel in Paris. After his studies at Cinéma du Réel in Nanterre and Naples, he was selected for the Web documentary workshop at Gaîté Lyrique in Paris. Later, he obtained a Master's degree in Cinema at the Esav in Toulouse. Following his studies, he directed many short and long documentary films. He is currently working on a feature-length fiction project "Points noirs".

Developed Projects

Works Supported by Meditalents

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LabMed 2016

Pêcheur de lune

Volunteering in an association, when he has just left Paris and moved in with his parents following his divorce, Eric, in his fifties, understands that one of his students is ready to leave to join the Islamic State...

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LabMed 2018

Points noirs

Leyla, a thirty-year-old Franco-Moroccan journalist, goes to the High Atlas for a documentary project on wild boar hunters. The young journalist must then face the disappearance of all the slaughtered wild boars, events of which she and her camera are the only witnesses.

From Script to Screen

Projects That Became Films

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