Jean-Louis Schuller was born in Luxembourg in 1979 and lives and works in London. He completed a BA in Cinematography at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion, Brussels in 2005 before moving to London, where he graduated from the MA course in Cinematography at the National Film and Television School (NFTS), London in 2008, after studying under Brian Tufano, Sean Bobbit and Billy Williams.
Jean-Louis’s first directing project, Chungking Dream (2009) was featured at Silver Docs festival, Washington DC; Sheffield DocFest and Clairmont-Ferrand short film festival amongst others. He also was recently commissioned to direct a seven-screen solo project for the Luxembourg Pavillion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo.
As well as directing his own films, Jean-Louis also enjoys working as a DoP with other directors on drama, music videos and commercials. Recent projects include Chinese New Year (2010), directed by Anthony Chen; the Jonsí Go Live music tour (2010); KIN (2008), Brian Welsh’s first feature; as well as work with the experimental collective Tell-No-One and artist Stuart Croft.
