Jean-Michel Sourd
- Actor
- Executive
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.