Jean-Baptiste Chuat is a French/German filmmaker, illustrator, and creature concept-artist.
His early short films were invited tot the iff san sebastian, the Max oephuels preis film festival, the international fantasy film fest, and universal studios’ 13th street shocking shorts, among others. awards and nominations include the Eyes and Ears of Europe Award, The German Camera Award (nom.), and Best Short Film at the Warsaw international Film Festival (Nom.).
As an illustrator and designer, Jean-Baptiste has contributed to films such as death machine, the texas chainsaw a massacre, leatherface (2018) and alfred hitchcock’spsycho (2019 re-issue), among others.
His audacious poster rendering for the controversial film CRASH (1996) recently caught the eye of Canadian cult director David Cronenberg, for whom Jean-Baptiste has since created illustrations and designs for upcoming re-releases.