Director of "Desire: The Carl Craig Story" (Tribeca'24), "Harley" (Tribeca '20) & "Stray Bullet" (Netflix). Currently making a film on Venezuelan soprano Samuel Mariño and "The Book of Harley".
Jean-Cosme Delaloye is the director of DESIRE: THE CARL CRAIG STORY, the feature documentary of Detroit techno legend Carl Craig that premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival and that will have a theatrical release in the UK on May 8, 2025. He is currently directing a documentary on Venezuelan soprano Samuel Mariño. He also directed THE BOOK OF HARLEY. This film is the sequel of the 2020 documentary HARLEY that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. He also directed IN THE CROWD, a feature documentary on Argentinian hooligans. In 2018, he directed the Netflix documentary STRAY BULLET. He also directed 2 award-winning feature documentaries in Central America, LA PRENDA, which premiered at Hot Docs ins 2015 and BY MY SIDE. Jean-Cosme started out as a reporter and covered conflicts, gangs and crises extensively. He teaches a documentary master program at L’Ecole Supérieure du Journalisme in Paris and is the founder of JCDe Productions in Brooklyn, NY.
Filmography
Producer (5 Credits)
IN THE CROWD2023
Documentary
Scars We Carry2023
Animation, Documentary
Harley2019
Documentary
Stray Bullet2018
Documentary
La Prenda2015
Documentary
Writer (5 Credits)
IN THE CROWD2023
Documentary
Scars We Carry2023
Animation, Documentary
Harley2019
Documentary
Stray Bullet2018
Documentary
La Prenda2015
Documentary
Director (5 Credits)
IN THE CROWD2023
Documentary
Scars We Carry2023
Animation, Documentary
Harley2019
Documentary
Stray Bullet2018
Documentary
La Prenda2015
Documentary
Awards & Selections
Official Selection La Prenda
Hot Docs Toronto
2015
Education
College
Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
Journalism, German and History
1993 – 1999
Personal Details
Birth Date
March 22, 1975
Birth City
Monthey, Switzerland
Current City
Brooklyn, NY
Hometown
Brooklyn, NY
Height
6 feet
Gender
Male
Ethnicity
white
Eye Color
Green
Married To
Danielle
Children
2. Léon (13 years old) and Joséphine (9 years old)
Quotes
“The greatest madness a man can be guilty of in this life, is to let himself die outright, without being slain by any person whatever, or destroyed by any other weapon than the hands of melancholy”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
Director of "Desire: The Carl Craig Story" (Tribeca'24), "Harley" (Tribeca '20) & "Stray Bullet" (Netflix). Currently making a film on Venezuelan soprano Samuel Mariño and "The Book of Harley".