Jean-Cosme Delaloye

Jean-Cosme Delaloye is the director of DESIRE: THE CARL CRAIG STORY, the feature documentary on Detroit techno legend Carl Craig, that had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2024 and its UK premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival in March 2025. The film also had its theatrical in the UK on May 8, 2025 with a sold out screening at the IMAX in London. It is scheduled to come out in US cinemas on September 17, 2025.

Jean-Cosme is currently finishing VOICE OF THE RAINBOW, a feature film on Venezuelan soprano Samuel Marino, and directing HARLEYWOOD, a new documentary series inspired by his 2020 Tribeca documentary HARLEY. He also directed IN THE CROWD, a feature documentary on Argentinian hooligans. In 2018, he directed the Netflix documentary STRAY BULLET. Prior to this film, he directed 2 award-winning feature documentaries in Central America, LA PRENDA, which premiered at Hot Docs ins 2015, and BY MY SIDE.

Jean-Cosme started out as a reporter and covered conflicts, gangs and crises extensively. He teaches a documentary master program at L’Ecole Supérieure du Journalisme in Paris and is the founder of JCDe Productions in Brooklyn, NY.

Festivals

Tribeca Film Festival, Hot Docs, Glasgow, Guadalajara, Sidewalk, Mill Valley, Philadelphia, Thessaloniki, In-Edit, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, Havana, HFFNY, FIFDH, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, San Diego Latino Film Festival, San Sebastian, Biarritz, Icaro, Filmar, TRT Awards, Soleure, Filmar, Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, Enfances dans le Monde Paris, Muestra de Bogota, Costa Rica Festival Internacional de Cine, MIDOC, Human Rights on Tour and many more.

Awards

Best Documentary, Havana Film Festival in New York 2016.

Best Documentary, TRT Awards 2016.

Audience Award Enfances dans le Monde Paris, 2016.

Best Documentary Icaro Film Festival, 2012 and 2015.

Best Documentary, Enfances dans le Monde 2013.