Jean-Michel Sourd

Jean-Michel Sourd was born in Rennes, Brittany (France) from a father born in Tunisia with Anglo-Maltese grand-mother, Greek grand-father from his mother side and Sicilian grand-mother from his father side. Failing twice at the Institut Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle of Brussels in the director category under Raymond Ravar's guidance in the beginning of the 80's, he studied History of Art at Rennes 2 University, then left for Paris 1 - Panthéon- Sorbonne University where he got a B.A.(1984) and a M.A.(1985) in Art History and Archaeology, specialized in North African prehistoric Rock Art. He, then joined the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and studied documentary film under Jean Rouch, Helene Puiseux, Annie Comolli, with extra-class with Annie Goldman and Xavier de France. He spent 5 years in Greece where he got a scholarship for conducting a study on the representation of the founders of Mount Athos monasteries on the 16th century wall paintings under the supervision of Xavier Barral i Altet with a special program between Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) and Rennes 2 - Haute Bretagne University (1991). He made a few shorts film including documentary "Les Mots à l'Appel" on readings by Greek people (1986) as well as a short featuring Melina Mercouri. He hold also a M.A. in French as a Foreign Language from Grenoble III - Stendhal University (1996) and a Master 2 in Sciences of Language from Rouen University (1999). He is Head of French Department at Diocesan Boys' School and since 2009, try to complete a Ph.D in comparative literature on the travelers' writings on Mount Athos from the 15th century to the present at Paris IV - Sorbonne. He is also visiting lecturer in Film studies at the School of Professional And Continuing Education of the University of Hong Kong. He is looking for new opportunities to play in movies.