Laurent Bouzereau

Director · Writer · Cast

Born

January 1, 1962 · France

Laurent Bouzereau is an award-winning filmmaker and best-selling author. His credits include the feature documentary Jaws @ 50 for NatGeo/Amblin, and the award winning Music By John Williams for Lucasfilm/Amblin/Imagine, produced by Steven Spielberg & Ron Howard, which opened the 2024 AFI Film Festival. His film Faye, about Legendary actor Faye Dunaway, for HBO/Amblin, premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Bouzereau directed the Lucasfilm/Disney+ Documentary Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford, the HBO/Amblin/Playtone documentary Mama's Boy, based on the best-selling memoir by Dustin Lance Black, Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind (Sundance 2020, HBO/Amblin), and the Netflix/Amblin acclaimed series Five Came Back (with an Emmy winning narration by Meryl Streep), executive produced by Steven Spielberg. Bouzereau has produced and directed hundreds of benchmark behind-the-scenes documentaries, including Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans and West Side Story. He is the author of several books on cinema, including Steven Spielberg: The First Ten Years, The De Palma Decade, Hitchcock: Piece by Piece, The Art of Bond, and others. Laurent Bouzereau and his partner Markus Keith run Nedland Films, a production company based in Los Angeles. In addition to the above-mentioned slate of documentaries which Nedland produced, they are developing scripted projects. Nedland is also a leader in film and brand marketing, working on campaigns for all the major studios.