Vadim Jean (born

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, 9 December 1963)"Zip up your Rhino suit"
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film

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, producer, and executive producer.

Career

After graduating with a

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in history from

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, he found work on

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'', before establishing his own production company in 1989 covering a wide variety of subjects, from sport to corporate videos."Vadim Jean"
Mob film He first came to public attention as a director when ''

Leon the Pig Farmer ''Leon the Pig Farmer'' is a 1992 United Kingdom, British comedy about a Jewish estate agent in London who discovers that thanks to an artificial insemination mishap, his real father owns a pig farm in Yorkshire. It was directed by Vadim Jean an ...

'' won him the FIPRESCI International Critics' Prize at the 1992

Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival he ...

, the Best Newcomer award from the London Critics' Circle, the Most Promising Newcomer at the

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, and the Chaplin Award for the best first feature from the

Edinburgh International Film Festival The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is a film festival that runs for two weeks in June each year. Established in 1947, it is the world's oldest continually running film festival. EIFF presents both UK and international films (all ti ...

.Vadim Jean - Awards

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He repeated his critical success in 1999 when '' One More Kiss'' won the Audience Award at the

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, and was nominated for Best Film at the International Filmfest Emden. His Hollywood debut was ''

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood ''Jiminy Glick in Lalawood'' is a 2004 American comedy film starring Martin Short as Jiminy Glick, a morbidly obese movie critic who is involved in a murder case at the Toronto International Film Festival. The supporting cast features Jan Hooks, ...

'' starring Martin Short as his celebrity interviewing alter-ego, produced by Gold Circle films. The film also features

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and Kurt Russell as themselves. It was selected as the closing gala at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival. In 2010 he directed ''In the Land of the Free...'' a feature documentary narrated by

Samuel L. Jackson Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American actor and producer. One of the most widely recognized actors of his generation, the films in which he has appeared have collectively grossed over $27 billion worldwide, making him ...

. It tells the story of three men known as the

Angola Three The Angola Three are three African-American former prison inmates (Robert Hillary King, Albert Woodfox, and Herman Wallace) who were held for decades in solitary confinement while imprisoned at Louisiana State Penitentiary (also known as Angol ...

who among them have spent over a century in solitary confinement in the Louisiana State penitentiary. It was nominated best documentary at the 2011

.''London Evening Standard'', 5 January 2011

Filmography

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* 1963 births Living people Alumni of the University of Warwick English film directors English film producers People associated with the Discworld series {{UK-film-producer-stub