Laurent Boutonnat

Laurent Boutonnat is a French filmmaker and music producer He grew up in Paris France and developed a passion for music very early on he played the piano from the age of five and cinema he made small short films at a very young age including a strange adaptation of Bambi in 1971 He stopped studying at the age of fifteen looking for work and taking up writing he abandons music and became more and more interested in cinema At the age of seventeen he made his first film the mediumlength film Ballade de la Féconductrice which was screened for two weeks in Paris in 1980 He worked as a cameraman alongside reporter JeanFrançois Chauvel then devoted himself to producing television commercials He is best known for discovering the French pop star Mylène Farmer together with his friend and collaborater Jérôme Dahan They wrote Mylènes debut song Maman a tort and Boutonnat directed the music video for it He has since made 20 music videos for Farmer and videos for other artists including Alizée and Nathalie Cardone