Career
A former pupil of Lycée Charlemagne and Lycée Victor Hugo in Paris, two secondary schools renowned for their academic excellence, Jowan started cinema studies at the Paris Sorbonne University of Jussieu, during which he directed a large number of short films. An award received for one of his short films won him editing software, which he used in a number of music video clips. He then decided to further his studies at the Lyon Institut Lumière and Paris Gobelins School. He took part in Isild’s first short film produced by SOPADIN (a scriptwriting competition organisation), and went on by taking charge of photography in Demi-tarif, which won an award for best Junior script. Given their young age - both were under 20, Jowan and Isild had experienced the greatest difficulty finding a producer for this project. KAREDAS decided to trust them: as a result, the film was presented at over fifty festivals and widely acclaimed by film critics. Even though he has occasionally held roles as an actor, Jowan’s objective has always been to stick to film photography training. To this end, he studied with Stéphane Marty, later with Caroline Champetier during the making of L'Intouchable, shot in India where he was in charge of capturing the cremation scenes. With the success of Demi-tarif, he was able to prepare Isild’s second film Charly with greater ease, as the project was funded by an advance on future box-office receipts from the CNC, as well as receiving the support of Arte.The film is to be released on 12 September 2007. Following an extended solitary stay in an Indian monastery, he brought back Yapo, a documentary that was selected for the 29th Cinéma du Réel Documentary Festival, a yearly event for ethnological or social documentary films organised by the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
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