Laurent Bouzereau

Laurent Bouzereau is a French-American documentary filmmaker, producer, and author.
Life and career.
Laurent Bouzereau directed and produced Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind, for HBO and Amblin Television. The film was selected at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and presented in the Documentary Premiere selection.
Bouzereau is also the director/co-producer of the Netflix series "Five Came Back", executive produced by Steven Spielberg, Scott Rudin, Barry Diller and Amblin Television, based on the best-selling book by Mark Harris, and narrated by Meryl Streep. The documentary features Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo del Toro, Paul Greengrass, Lawrence Kasdan, and Steven Spielberg.
Bouzereau was born and raised in a suburb of Paris, France. He began his career in New York as a freelance journalist and author with "The De Palma Cut" while working in publicity and promotion for the independent distribution company Spectrafilm. Upon moving to Hollywood, he was story editor and graduated to director of development for Bette Midler's production company, All Girl Productions. He got his start in home entertainment when he recorded audio commentary for the Criterion Collection on the LaserDisc for "Carrie" in 1991. In 1995, he produced his first of many documentaries for Steven Spielberg when he was asked to work on the LaserDisc restoration of the film 1941. That year he also produced "The Making of Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws'," a feature-length documentary that was included on the LaserDisc release of Jaws in 1995, and later on the DVD and Blu-ray releases of the film. Following the success of this documentary, Bouzereau continued to produce retrospective documentaries for Laserdisc, including the making of "Scarface" and "E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial" in 1996, the making of "Psycho" in 1997 and the making of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" in 1998. In 2002, for the production of "A.I. Artificial Intelligence", he began documenting the filmmaking process on-set.
Bouzereau has produced documentaries on the making-of some of the biggest films in the history of cinema, by some of the most acclaimed directors of all-time. He has produced most of the documentaries on the making of Steven Spielberg's films. In total, he has documented over 150 films, including the "Indiana Jones" and "Jurassic Park" film franchises. Among the many titles include American Graffiti by George Lucas, "Titanic" and "Avatar" by James Cameron, the Universal and Warners Bros. Alfred Hitchcock collections, "Lawrence of Arabia" and "The Bridge on the River Kwai" by David Lean, "Taxi Driver", "Raging Bull" and "Casino" by Martin Scorsese, "Scarface", "Carrie", and "Dressed to Kill" by Brian De Palma, "Cruising" and "The Exorcist" by William Friedkin, "Back to the Future" by Robert Zemeckis, "Reds" by Warren Beatty, "Chinatown" and "Tess" by Roman Polanski, and "The Last Picture Show" by Peter Bogdanovich.
As an author, Bouzereau's credits include "Hitchcock: Piece by Piece, The Art of Bond," "The New York Times" Best-Seller "The Making of Star Wars, Episode I - The Phantom Menace"", Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays, The Cutting Room Floor: Movie Scenes Which Never Made It To The Screen," "Ultra Violent Movies: From Sam Peckinpah to Quentin Tarantino" and "The De Palma Cut: The Films of America's Most Controversial Director".
Bouzereau wrote, directed and produced the documentary on legendary film producer Richard D. Zanuck entitled "Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking", executive produced by Steven Spielberg. Zanuck watched the film three days before he died.
Bouzereau wrote, directed and produced the TCM/Amblin Television series "A Night at the Movies". Episodes include "George Lucas and the World of Fantasy Cinema", "The Horrors of Stephen King", "Hollywood Goes to Washington", "The Gigantic World of Epics", "The Suspenseful World of Thrillers", "Merry Christmas!", and "Cops & Robbers and Crime Writers".
Bouzereau directed the documentary "Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir", which premiered at the 2011 Zurich Film Festival and was selected at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival (out of competition). Bouzereau is also the co-producer of the Feel Good Fiction/BBC Radio program "The Blind Man", based on an un-produced script by Ernest Lehman and Alfred Hitchcock.
Bouzereau is developing as director / producer, several feature film and documentary projects, including Mama’s Boy: A Story from our Americas, based on the best-selling memoir by Dustin Lance Black.
Filmography.
Behind-the-Scenes Documentaries (selected titles).
Steven Spielberg
Alfred Hitchcock
David Lean
Brian de Palma
William Friedkin
Martin Scorsese
Robert Zemeckis
Sidney Lumet
Peter Bogdanovich
François Truffaut
Francis Ford Coppola
Roman Polanski
Walter Hill
Warren Beatty
Arthur Penn
Cecil B. DeMille
William Wyler
John Boorman
Lawrence Kasdan
George Lucas
Elia Kazan
John Carpenter
David Cronenberg
Orson Welles
John Millus
Mel Brooks
Robert Wise
James Bridges
Joe Dante
Mel Gibson
Gary Ross
Terrence Malick
Sean Penn
Steve McQueen
Lasse Hallström
Sam Taylor Johnson
Colin Trevorrow
J.J. Abrams
Rupert Sanders
Matt Reeves
Kenneth Branagh
J.A. Bayona
James Gray
Felix Van Groeningen
Mike Flanagan
Miguel Sapochnik