Biography

Jean-Noël Gobron was born on 19th January 1954 as the son of a poet and a painter. At the age of 13, he realized his first super 8 film experiments. Four years later he began working after school hours as a projectionist in a movie theatre. Not much later he left school to work in an industrial photographic studio. After a year he resumed school in order to study photography, plastic arts and film. In Brussels he graduated from the film school.

In 1973 he creates the film club "Zoom" and from 1974 onwards he worked on several motion pictures as camera operator and director of photography. In 1983, during a three months trip to Tokyo, he directed his first feature film. Two years later he founded the production house Alcyon Film.

Jean-Noël Gobron was active within various associations, such as the ABAFT (association of film and television authors), the ABPRF (association of producer-directors), the AJC (workshop of young filmmakers), the CBA (audio-visual center at Brussels), HOT DOC. (association for documentary makers), PROSPERE (authority gathering several associations and interlocutor with the Ministry of Culture) and the audio-visual commission of the SABAM. He also lectured at the Flemish university of Brussels, the film academy of Ghent and the NARAFI film institute of Brussels. Actually he manages a post-production studio within the structure of Alcyon Film.
- IMDb mini biography by: Jean-Noël Gobron