Jean-Baptiste Durand

Biography

Jean-Baptiste Durand is a French film director and screenwriter born in 1985. He grew up in Montpeyroux, near Montpellier, and studied at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, where he initially focused on painting and drawing before transitioning to film. His debut short film, L'Amour sans le sexe, was a personal and autobiographical exploration of friendship, and his feature debut, Chien de la casse, was selected for the screenplay reading at Premiers Plans in 2021.