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Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (born 31 December 1968; Paris), is a French director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known as the director of films Johnny Mad Dog (2008), A Prayer Before Dawn (2017) and Black Flies (2023). Sauvaire was born on 31 December 1968 in Paris, France. He currently lives in New York City.
In 1991, he started film career as a first assistant director of the film Les Nuits Fauves by Cyril Collard. Then he joined the crew for the films Les Demons de Jesus and Les Grandes Bouches directed by Bernie Bonvoisin, I Stand Alone by Gaspar Noé, Sous Les Pieds Des Femmes directed by Rachida Krim, Hors Jeu by Karim Dridi, Louise (Take 2) by Siegfried and Love Me by Laetitia Masson. He continued to work as the assistant director until 2000. At the end of 2000, he directed his three short films, La Mule (co-directed with Rossy De Palma), A Dios and Matalo. In all these three short films, he used the theme of violence among adolescents. In 2008, he made the film Johnny Mad Dog co-produced with Mathieu Kassovitz. The film was later presented in the Official Selection, 'Un Certain Regard' section at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Prix de l'Espoir. The film was an adaptation of the novel 'Johnny Chien Méchant' written by Congolese writer Emmanuel Dongala. It tells the story of a group of child soldiers fighting for the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) rebels in 2003, during the latter part of the Second Liberian Civil War. After the success of the film, he directed a telefilm Punk in 2012, which was co-produced by Arte, with Paul Bartel and Béatrice Dalle. In 2017, he made the film A Prayer Before Dawn which was adapted from the story of Billy Moore. The film received an official selection at the 70th Cannes Film Festival in 2017. In 2023, Sauvaire directed Black Flies, an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Shannon Burke, with Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan. The film is selected in competition at the 76th Cannes Film Festival in 2023.
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02 April 2000
A Colombian woman arrives at a French airport, she acts suspiciously and appears to be concealing something in her locked case.
15 September 2004
A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel.
21 October 1992
Jean is young, gay, and promiscuous. Only after he meets one or two women, including Laura, does he come to realize his bisexuality.
24 May 2018
The amazing true story of Billy Moore, an English boxer incarcerated in Thailand’s most notorious prison.
20 May 2008
A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in an unnamed African country.
31 August 2012
An intense and solitary teenager, Paul finds himself caught up in a journey for freedom, full of violence, betrayal and hope.
02 September 1995
Marguerite Mercier is a retired seamstress who lives in an old apartment.A real estate agent has come to her apartment looking for Mr.
27 October 2004
This documentary reveals the most violent part of the most violent city (Medellin) of the most violent country (Colombia) in the world.
12 May 2023
A young paramedic is paired with a seasoned partner on the night shift in New York revealing a city in crisis.
23 February 2000
Laetita Masson directs this hallucinatory dream-like work about dancing on the beach, Elvis impersonators, and sailors longing to live and work in Taipei.
07 August 2014
Mr. Devereaux is a powerful man. A man who handles billions of dollars every day. A man who controls the economic fate of nations.
04 May 1997
Karl Marx didn't write the of Das Kapital. Books II and III were written and published by Friedrich Engels between 1885 and 1894.
26 November 1994
Esther watches TV and comes across a reality show where she recognizes her ex-husband disguised as a woman.
26 December 1993
Henri Pompians, a former income tax inspector,has a dream: to become a lawyer.His first client Mr. Etienne has all the problems of the world: he doesn't feel well in his job, his wife doesn't care very much for his and he had an accident.
25 November 1998
In this French comedy-drama, actor Angelo Bastiani installs satellite dishes when not auditioning for films.
07 February 2015
Maurice, a reticent young homeless man, somehow manages to get by in Brooklyn; he spends his nights in parked cars until he finds himself at Bizarre, an underground club renowned for its burlesque shows.
31 December 2014
Mission: Blacklist
21 January 2005
Children in Mexico City face off against the devil.
27 May 2001
A Colombian kid walks around in his neighborhood with his imaginary TV frame.
01 January 1997
Set in the late 1960s, a family of Gypsies live in a dilapidated pavilion in the western suburbs of Paris.
19 May 2011
One hot afternoon in the south of France, several paths are converging towards a tragic conclusion. Those involved are: Stéphane and Luigi, two cousins who have just emerged from adolescence; Georges, a retired old man; Amélie, Luigi’s girlfriend; and Amélie’s mother Anne.
24 February 1999
This is a suspense drama about Esther, Lamar, and Zed, three friends who live together. Tired of having financial problems, they decide to hit it big somehow.
20 January 1999
The central role of Louise is portrayed by Elodie Bouchez, who won a 1998 Cannes "Best Actress" award for The Dreamlife of Angels.
08 October 1997
This romantic, political drama is about the reunion of an Algerian woman who abandoned her lover 35 years earlier to live in France, and the lover who chose to stay in Algeria and fight the French colonials.
