A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Audincourt, Doubs, France
Jonathan Zaurin was born in 1984 in the little town of Audincourt France. Passionate about film from a very young age and he realises that this is what he wants to do: Tell stories with images. It is later on that he discovers the cinema of John Carpenter, a film master whose work will prove deeply influential on Jonathan's own filmmaking. In 2006 he meets his wife Sarah and moves to the UK. Together they produce a series of award winning short films with Sarah acting as producer and often also as writer. Working professionally as a filmmaker Jonathan has made dozens of films both commercial and personal, gathering an array of awards from a wide variety of international festivals along the way. Portrait(s), Dirt and The Pit and Santa Baby all proved to be big short film successes in festivals, and all three films were made for budgets under £300! In 2020 Jonathan, in collaboration with LBS Films and Solo Productions starts the production of a feature film titled Wyvern Hill, a super low budget indie horror written by TV Writer Keith Temple (Dr Who).
Camera Operator:
2021 Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2023 The Beauty of Suffering
2025 Return to Dark City
Cinematography:
2021 Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2022 Mike Hodges: A Film-Maker's Life
2023 The Beauty of Suffering
2025 Return to Dark City
Director:
2018 Dirt
2020 Gore Grind
2021 Hollow
2021 Santa Baby
2021 Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2022 Mike Hodges: A Film-Maker's Life
2023 Dean of the Dead Presents: Holiday Horrors
2023 The Beauty of Suffering
2024 Derelict
2025 Return to Dark City
???? Portrait(s)
???? The Pit
Editor:
2018 Dirt
2020 Gore Grind
2021 Hollow
2021 Santa Baby
2021 Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2022 Mike Hodges: A Film-Maker's Life
2023 Dean of the Dead Presents: Holiday Horrors
2023 The Beauty of Suffering
2024 Derelict
2025 Return to Dark City
???? Portrait(s)
???? The Pit
Writer:
2018 Dirt
2020 Gore Grind
2021 Hollow
2021 Santa Baby
2021 Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2022 Mike Hodges: A Film-Maker's Life
2023 Dean of the Dead Presents: Holiday Horrors
2023 The Beauty of Suffering
2024 Derelict
2025 Return to Dark City
???? Portrait(s)
???? The Pit
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While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
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Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
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Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.