Jean-Christophe Jeauffre’s biography

JEAN-CHRISTOPHE JEAUFFRE is a filmmaker, screenwriter and producer, born in Paris, France, April 26, 1966.

After earning a master’s degree in literature in 1988, he graduated at the Paris Movie Conservatory in 1989. He then joined the French Navy for two years, from 1990 to 1991 on Aircraft-carrier Foch during the Lebanon war and was in charge of the ship’s Television production unit where he made his first reportages and documentaries for the Navy.
In 1991, Jeauffre founded the non-profit Jules Verne Adventures along with Frédéric Dieudonné. Dedicated to exploration, filmmaking and education the organization is based in Paris at the Prince Albert I of Monaco Foundation.

In 1992, Jeauffre and Dieudonné launched the annual Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival. It was inaugurated by Jacques Cousteau and together they developed a production unit to create new adventure & exploration programs for television.
The Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival is now the most important adventure & discovery film festival in the world ; it is held in Le Grand Rex, the largest theatre in Europe each April and attracts more than 41,000 attendees during the six day event.

Jeauffre’s passion for exploration and for the sea led him to conceive scientific expeditions and to create a new concept of documentaries he called Action-documentaries, involving part real exploration and fictional contents, filming under the sea with whales and unveiling lost civilizations in the Amazon forests...

He has been a member of prestigious French Explorers Club since 1999.

From 1999 to 2006, Jeauffre wrote directed and coproduced several films for TV which included Devil’s Islands - Journey into Jungle Alcatraz, Red and White - Searching for the Lost West. A five-month expedition on the Atlantic aboard the tall ship Belem led to his production of the highly acclaimed documentaries : 100 Years Under the Seas - Shipwrecks of the Caribbean, Amazon Trek - In Search of Vanishing Secrets, Whales of Atlantis - In Search of Moby Dick, Five Weeks On The Sea - the Jules Verne Expedition, and Tall Ship of the 3rd Millennium. Two fully illustrated books were also published after the expedition.

In 2006 he wrote and directed the TV documentary Explorers - From the Titanic to the Moon, starring producer/director James Cameron and veteran astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
All of the aforementioned films are now being distributed in the US on DVD with narrations by well-known actors Sir Christopher Lee (Lord Of The Rings, Star Wars II & III) and Academy Award-winner Ernest Borgnine (From Here to Eternity, The Wild Bunch).

As a filmmaker, he’s currently working on his biggest TV and theatrical "Action-Documentary" to be shot in India on a never-before-filmed before archeological underwater location, and to be entirely post-produced in Los Angeles.

In 2005 Jeauffre co-founded the American version of the French non-profit Jules Verne Adventures. It is based in Los Angeles at the Shrine Auditorium Shrine Auditorium and maintains an IRS 501(c)(3) status.
The inaugural American mini-launch of the Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival (October 2006 at the Shrine Auditorium) has celebrated the work of George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Dr. Jane Goodall and James Cameron before 6,300 attendees in late 2006.
The first full version of the Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival, December 5 through 15, 2007, in Downtown LA, has celebrated the work of Tippi Hedren, Ted Turner, Tony Curtis, Stan Lee, the ’Heroes’ cast and crew, Buzz Aldrin, William Shatner, the ’Blade Runner’ cast and crew and welcomed more than 10,000 visitors, including 5,000 schoolchildren.

Jeauffre is now preparing the 2008 edition of this worldwide film festival to be presented in California every year.

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