Jean-Claude Thibaut
Jean-Claude Thibaut
03.10.1968 (56 years) (Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France)
Jean-Claude Thibaut (born October 3, 1968) is a French filmmaker, visual artist, and producer, known for his bold and dark stylish films. Thibaut, as a filmmaker, explores and defines his particular fascination with men and women, but also examines his wider response to people, places, history and situations. His style combines chic seduction with sexual shock-tactics, embracing twists on traditional glamour frequently portrayed in his portraits of beautiful, talented and notorious public figures. Jean-Claude Thibaut has directed Catherine Zeta-Jones, Sophie Marceau and Naomi Campbell among others …Thibaut collaborates recurrently with Dior and Louis Vuitton. Thibaut purposefully forces his viewers to feel and not just passively observe his work. Classical narrative casualties are dissolved in favor of expressive abstraction. His attention to detail and artistic sensibility is at the core of his high-profile projects, bringing to them the highest level of aesthetics and technical skills. Thibaut received the 2004 Philips Morris award « 400 Copies in Theater » for his short film about a robot-cop fly in Lethal Wings, underlined by one of the earliest Alexandre Desplat soundtracks, which in turn also received the Audience Award in Beauvais and participated in more than 70 festivals around the world including Los Angeles Film Festival and the Chicago International Film Festival. In 2012 The Peninsula Hotels campaign “Peninsula Moments”, written by Thibaut received the 2012 Bronze Excellence in Branded Content Award, tailing Disney and HSBC. Jean-Claude Thibaut is well known for his successful brand contents campaign for Louis Vuitton, a film series on cities Los Angeles and Hong Kong using gender as a lens to interpret each city’s identity, introducing young rising stars as Ethan Peck, Grace Huang and Cosmo Wolski and Rosey Chan. In 2011 Thibaut co-produced with his French company Advancedroom, For Lovers Only, rated top romance Indie film in iTunes USA in 2012, directed by Michael Polish with Stana Katic Castle (TV series). Jean-Claude Thibaut is currently developing a feature film project based on the city of Los Angeles.