“Masterly widescreen cinematography by Jean Dakar” - The Hollywood Reporter (2025)
“The camerawork, led by Jean Dakar is alert to beauty all around” - The Hollywood Reporter (2023)
“Benefitting enormously from DP Jean Dakar’s immersive cinematography, which includes soaring drone shots as well as intimately framed interiors,..” - Variety (2025)
“Painterly composition that should be hanging on a museum wall.” - Indie Wire (2025)
“Cinematographer Jean Dakar’s unobtrusive and perceptive lens captures the way that Nikola and his wife Jana scythe the fields together, their movements perfectly synchronised” - Screen Daily (2025)
“Concise and gently sentimental, all driven by beautiful cinematography by Jean Dakar - Business Doc Europe (2025)
“DoP and producer Jean Dakar’s majestic widescreen cinematography, complex compositions with figures perfectly positioned in a frame, and intense colours and strong contrast.” - Cineuropa (2025)
“Dakar captured stunning imagery of the birds as they nested atop chimneys and other structures; he also photographed them in flight with the aid of drones.” - Deadline (2025)
“Gorgeous piece of visual poetry… Some of the most stunningly immersive nature photography you’ll ever lay eyes on.” - Katie at the movies (2025)
“Jean Dakar’s gently observational camera capturing the warm and loose energy between them that sings with old love.” - Eye for Film (2025)
Awards & Nominations
41st IDA (Best Cinematography) : Winner
19th Cinemaeye Honors (Best Cinematography) : Nomination
Critics Choice Awards (Best Cinematography) : Nomination
41st IDA (Best Documentary) : Winner
82nd Venice Film Festival (Cinema & Arts Award) : Winner
19th Cinemaeye Honors (Audience Choice Award) : Winner
Spirit Awards (Best Documentary): Nomination
Producers Guild of America (Best Documentary): Nomination
Critics Choice Awards: (Best Documentary Feature) : Nomination
Jean Dakar was born to Syrian-Turkish parents and has been raised between Germany, Spain and the UK. His multicultural background has ignited a deep interest in exploring different cultures around the world. Jean graduated in Film Production from the Arts University Bournemouth and began his career as a Cinematographer in London.
He developed a stark interest in subjects which tackle environmental and sociopolitical issues and began working on documentaries as a cinematographer and producer which have taken him from the ex-colonial stone town of Mozambique to the arctic Siberian tundra.
Personal Enquiry
jeandakar.film@gmail.com
+44 (0) 74290 036594