Michael Dupret (born in 1980) is a french film, documentary and music video director. He’s has been working as a director for 19 years now.
He worked for many TV channels ( RTL Group, MTV, EXPN, M6, France Télévision..etc), many brands ( Audi, Quiksilver, Rossignol, Red Bull, Universal Music...etc) and with different artists (David Hallyday, Alain Delon, Gong Li, Laura Smet, Run DMC, Johnny Hallyday, Xzibit...etc). He also shot a lot of documentary portrait (Jimmy Carter, Johnny Hallyday, Benoit Debie, Orelsan, Julien Doré, Lost Frequencies...)
He earned the Strategies Grand Prize award for the best sport TV campaign in 2008 for Rossignol « The Pure Mountain Company ».
He also directed the awarded documentary "Elle est Bo" / 2020 Belfius press award. A film about the belgian transgender journalist, Bo Van Spielbeek .
Now he is moving to fiction and narrative stories with directing his first short movie : #No_Filter. The film had a World Premiere at the world known Festival : BIFFF / Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival. It was selected by 7 Films festivals and earned 10 awards all over the world.
In 2021 he wrote and directed the long feature version of #No_Filter. The movie will be released in late 2022.
As a former freeskiing competitor he also shot a lot of extrem sport programs and films all over the world and he likes to adapt that way of filming to other productions : " When you’re filming those kinds of films you’re totally in sync with the rider, he’s risking his life, you only have one chance to get the perfect shot, to capture that perfect moment. You can apply that dynamic style of filming to everything, it's a great way to get something very special”
Most of all, he is a picture lover, his life is dedicated to the art of filming. As Oscar Wilde said, the secret of life is in art...