Dylan Besseau

**Dylan Besseau** (born September 15, 1997) is a French filmmaker and producer born in Vietnam.

## Education

He followed his schooling at the private Catholic institution Saint-Gabriel/Saint-Michel in the commune of Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre. He obtained his general baccalaureate ES at the private high school of Brittany in 2014. Then, he began a university course at the faculty of law in Nantes in 2015, but abandoned his studies to reorient himself to study cinema in art school, after being struck by seeing the film The Handmaiden.

## Career

In 2018, he studies in art school. The same year, he followed audiovisual internships in various associations, where he carried out some projects in co-production with France 3 Pays de la Loire.

In 2019, he began his career with director Jean-Yves Bilien. He directs the short film _The Sozo Girl_ and _Happiness_ based on the song _Like a Blooming Season_ by Shin Hae Gyeong.

In 2021, he created the audiovisual agency Artwooks Media and directed the feature-length documentary _La légende de Thierry Mauvignier_ about the director Thierry Mauvignier, also distributed on Prime Video..

Through this film, he is portrayed as a filmmaker who :

In 2022, he created the Wooksart Foundation, a charitable audiovisual association bringing together around thirty members that will produce a short documentary film on Rotary International.

In 2023, he produced the documentary _The Venus Chained_ which won the honorable mention at the Student World Impact Film Festival then, he directed the documentary _Anne Bouillon: Justice pour toutes_ with the french lawyer Anne Bouillon whose musical soundtrack composed by Keziah Chamsidini, the son of M'Toro Chamou. He will film a scene at the Panthéon (Paris) with the essayist Laurent Kupferman This film will be selected at the Justice Documentary Festival, he's the youngest producer in the selection of the first new edition. In 2024, he directed the film _Gevart_ "a film delicately representing a tutelary figure of a doctor" according to Bande à part (magazine). He began directing the film _Blast Punch_ and produced the documentary _Makiko_ on Makiko Furuichi.

According to The Source :

## Filmography

|Year|Title|Role|class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2019|_Happiness._|Director|Short film||
|2019|_Dreamhour - Better Friends_|Director|Short film||
|2021|_La légende de Thierry Mauvignier_|Director|Feature film||
|2022|_The Sozo Girl_|Director|Short film||
|2023|_Castle's Light_|Director|Short film||
|2023|_Anne Bouillon : Justice for women_|Director|Medium-length film||
|2023|_The Venus Chained_|producer|Medium-length film||
|2024|_Gevart_|Director|Medium-length film||
|2025|_Makiko_|Producer|Feature film||
|2026|_Blast Punch_|Director|Feature film||

## Distinctions

- 2022 : Official Selection at The Paus Premiers Festival
- 2023 : Official Selection at Justice Documentary Festival Paris
- 2023 : Honorable Mention at Student World Impact Film Festival
- 2023 : Promising young french directors by _Elucid magazine_

## Other websites

- on SensCritique
- on Allociné
- on film-documentaire.fr

## Infobox (person)

- **birth place**: Vietnam
- **nationality**: French
- **birth name**: Dylan Besseau
- **occupation**: movie director, movie producer
- **notable works**: _La légende de Thierry Mauvignier_, _Anne Bouillon : Justice pour toutes_, _The Venus Chained_
- **education**: Institution Saint-Gabriel/Saint-Michel
- **awards**: Honorable Mention at Student World Impact Film Festival in 2023
- **years active**: 2019–present