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Laurent Chalet

  • Cinematographer
  • Camera and Electrical Department
  • Director
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In a small village near Paris, 14 years old boys and girls enter the training centre for future lads and jockeys. For these young pupils, the transition between the family environment and this new world is brutal. Though sharing the world of teenagers: fl
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Lads & Jockeys (2008)
Laurent Chalet is known for March of the Penguins (2005), New World Disorder (1999) and Green Paradise (2011).
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    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 2 wins & 1 nomination total

    Known for

    March of the Penguins (2005)
    March of the Penguins
    7.5
    • Cinematographer
    • 2005
    New World Disorder (1999)
    New World Disorder
    4.4
    • Camera and Electrical Department
    • 1999
    Green Paradise (2011)
    Green Paradise
    8.7
    TV Series
    • Director
    Fils de zup (2001)
    Fils de zup
    • Camera and Electrical Department
    • 2001

    Credits

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    Cinematographer

    • Reclaim the Night (2026)
      Reclaim the Night
      Short
      • director of photography
      • 2026
    • L'aventure humaine (1997)
      L'aventure humaine
      7.6
      TV Series
      • Cinematographer
      • cinematography
      • 2014–2024
    • Les grands romans du scandale - La Religieuse (2023)
      Les grands romans du scandale - La Religieuse
      7.1
      TV Movie
      • Cinematographer
      • 2023
    • Les aventuriers de l'ARN messager - Coulisses d'une révolution scientifique (2023)
      Les aventuriers de l'ARN messager - Coulisses d'une révolution scientifique
      7.5
      TV Movie
      • Cinematographer
      • 2023
    • Racialized (2022)
      Racialized
      TV Movie
      • Cinematographer
      • 2022
    • Lev Trotskiy in Léon Trotsky, un homme à abattre (2022)
      Léon Trotsky, un homme à abattre
      6.9
      • Cinematographer
      • 2022
    • John Huston, une âme libre (2021)
      John Huston, une âme libre
      6.7
      TV Movie
      • Cinematographer
      • 2021
    • Songlines (2020)
      Songlines
      Short
      • Cinematographer
      • 2020
    • Antisémitismes (2020)
      Antisémitismes
      5.9
      • Cinematographer
      • 2020
    • Auguste Escoffier - The Birth of Modern Gastronomy (2020)
      Auguste Escoffier - The Birth of Modern Gastronomy
      7.5
      • Cinematographer
      • 2020
    • Saving Notre-Dame (2020)
      Saving Notre-Dame
      6.6
      TV Special
      • Cinematographer
      • 2020
    • Abbas in Abbas by Abbas (2019)
      Abbas by Abbas
      8.1
      • Cinematographer
      • 2019
    • Kessel: A Lion (2019)
      Kessel: A Lion
      7.0
      TV Movie
      • Cinematographer
      • 2019
    • Winston Churchill in History (2000)
      History
      6.6
      TV Series
      • Cinematographer
      • 2019
    • Rise of Tokyo in Color (2018)
      Rise of Tokyo in Color
      7.4
      TV Movie
      • director of photography
      • 2018

    Camera and Electrical Department

    • Nicolas Sarkozy, François Hollande, and Emmanuel Macron in 100 Jours (2022)
      100 Jours
      TV Movie
      • additional cinematographer
      • 2022
    • David Ogden Stiers, Stacy Keach, Neil Ross, Jay O. Sanders, Craig Sechler, J.T. Turner, and David Pogue in Nova (1974)
      Nova
      8.7
      TV Series
      • additional camera
      • camera operator
      • 2015–2019
    • La vie secrète des lac (2015)
      La vie secrète des lac
      7.8
      TV Series
      • image
      • 2015
    • Déchiffrage - La croissance, à quel prix? (2013)
      Déchiffrage - La croissance, à quel prix?
      TV Movie
      • camera operator
      • 2013
    • Lou Doillon, Malik Zidi, Samuel Benchetrit, and Olga Milshtein in A Child of Yours (2012)
      A Child of Yours
      5.0
      • camera operator
      • 2012
    • Un automne musical à Versailles (2005)
      Un automne musical à Versailles
      TV Special
      • camera operator
      • 2005
    • Messe et motets pour la Vierge de Marc-Antoine Charpentier
      TV Special
      • camera operator
      • 2004
    • Josephine, Guardian Angel (1997)
      Josephine, Guardian Angel
      4.0
      TV Series
      • assistant camera
      • 2002
    • Avocats & associés (1998)
      Avocats & associés
      7.0
      TV Series
      • first assistant camera
      • 2001–2002
    • Natacha Amal and Ingrid Chauvin in Ladies of the Law (2000)
      Ladies of the Law
      5.3
      TV Series
      • first assistant camera
      • 2002
    • Dans la nuit
      4.1
      Short
      • camera operator
      • 2002
    • Fils de zup (2001)
      Fils de zup
      • assistant camera
      • 2001
    • The Black Door (2001)
      The Black Door
      5.2
      • focus puller
      • 2001
    • Paris à tout prix, dans les coulisses d'une élection (2001)
      Paris à tout prix, dans les coulisses d'une élection
      7.0
      TV Movie
      • additional cinematography
      • 2001
    • New World Disorder (1999)
      New World Disorder
      4.4
      • focus puller: second unit
      • 1999

    Director

    • L'homme des bois
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2018
    • Green Paradise (2011)
      Green Paradise
      8.7
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2011
    • Les nouveaux paradis (2008)
      Les nouveaux paradis
      7.1
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2008–2009

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