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Jacques Jouffret

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Biography

Jacques Jouffret is a French cinematographer. was raised in Paris, and would graduate from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. He worked as a camera operator and Steadicam operator on various feature and television films, including Gummo, The Pentagon Wars, Swordfish, Seabiscuit, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and Transformers: The Last Knight. In 2008, he won the Society of Camera Operators' Camera Operator of the Year Award for Into the Wild. Jouffret's credits as cinematographer include the first three installments of The Purge film series, Mile 22, and Bloodshot, an adaptation of the Valiant Comics comic book series. In 2020, Jouffret served as cinematographer for Songbird, noted for being filmed during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in California. He became a member of the American Society of Cinematographers in 2023. His upcoming credits include Arthur the King, and Gran Turismo, an adaptation of the video game franchise directed by Neill Blomkamp.

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