Biography
First, a director of photography specializing in wild marine life and the ocean in the broadest sense, Jean-Charles Granjon is a true enthusiast. Over the past 15 years, he has directed marine and underwater images for numerous feature films and documentaries broadcast internationally. His purely intuitive approach to marine and underwater photography completes itself from a hybrid technical environment, those of cinema and the ocean (sailing, diving, or even the military navy ).
As a teenager, he began a personal path intended to leave as much room as possible for intuition in his artistic search. From the Polynesian journey that led him on this personal journey, he produces an initiatory novel. Initiation pacifique edited by les éditions Guy Tredaniel, explores the intimate and transformative relationship that man has with the ocean. The teachings acquired from this first personal experience drove him into a constant quest for equilibrium between deep and strict preparation and the integration of the magic of the moment in his artistic projects. The graal of this quest is a smooth co-creation with his close environment (natural and human).
From this state of mind, he developed a special contact with large marine animals. This quality led him to participate in many films, some of which such as feature documentaries like Oceans, the sharks of Wrath, 700 Sharks in the Night, or The Quest for nature are even pleas for the ocean. As feedback, this experience of the wildlife developed his understanding of the human world while offering him to evolve towards ever more social and environmental awareness.
A marine biologist by training, he leaves cartesian thinking for a holistic approach to the human-ocean relationship. He is interested in mythology, shamanic rites, and transmission rites present among marine peoples and marine nomads.
Motivated by the direction of an experimental film where every technical solution was to be developed, he ventured into the field of production. From his love for technical challenge in art was born the first cinematic vertical and slow motion experimental film; Impact. This exploration of the myth of Icarus won several international awards, became a reference in terms of vertical format, and is the subject of studies. He founded Bluearth production in 2011 to share his artistic sense and his expertise in marine imagery. Through its developments in the technical industry as well as the experience and artistic contributions of Jean-Charles Granjon, Bluearth first established itself among French and foreign producers as an essential marine line production. We have recently organized the marine coordination and aquatic filming of feature films such as The Son by Florian Zeller, Still Water by Tom McCarthy, Over Drive by Antonio Negret, and many others whose references you can find in the appendix.
However, his experience in production has truly developed in the field of documentaries. His meeting with Ismael Huukena, a Marquesan swimmer who maintains a spiritual relationship with the Pacific Ocean, will be an opportunity for him to produce and direct his first feature documentary, Te Vaanui, l'odyssée d'Ismaël, broadcast on France Ô , Arte and enjoys wide international distribution.
He then got involved in producing 4 TV documentaries, between Polynesia, Norway, and the Mediterranean. He is the author and director of 3 of them; Silence in the Med, The Quest for Nature and Te Vaanui, the odyssey of Ishmael.
End of 2021, Bluearth Production chooses to take the step of executive production on feature films to develop the aquatic universe through production or international co-productions.
