Laurent Bouzereau
- Producer
- Director
- Writer

Currently, Laurent Bouzereau is the best-known home video/movie
documentary filmmaker. His name has appeared in the closing credits for
over 150 "making-of" documentaries and featurettes thus far, and he has
only been in the business for 10 years as of 2005. It all started when
he collected film memorabilia for classic Steven Spielberg and Brian De Palma films at
the time of their release. It was clear that he loved films, and would
hopefully get to make them in the future. He first started in the "film
business" when he came over to the United States from France to work in
film distribution. This was then followed up by several writing gigs
for French magazines including 'L'Ecran Fantastique' and 'Globe'. On
top of writing for these magazines, he wrote the book "The De Palma
Cut" in 1988 about Brian De Palma's visual style and controversial
films. Once Bouzereau heard that The Criterion Collection, a Laserdisc
distributor for classic film, was making a Laserdisc for Brian De
Palma's Carrie (1976), he called them up and told them he had some
collectibles they may be interested in. As it turns out, some of those
at Criterion had already read his book and wanted his input on the
Laserdisc, so he recorded a very informative audio commentary track to
be included on the Laserdisc. This was his first foray into the home
video circuit. Bouzereau then produced another Laserdisc (LD) for
Criterion, Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail (1929). Universal Studios then contacted
Bouzereau to produce Laserdiscs for Spielberg's 1941 (1979) and Jaws (1975).
While the LD for 1941 (1979) was on hiatus, he then edited the EPK
interviews for the film Alive (1993) and worked in feature development for
ZM Productions. From here on in, he would produce some of the best
making-of documentaries for home video, DVDs especially. Almost all of his first films were of feature-length, this includes The Making of '1941' (1996), The Last Picture Show: A Look Back (1999) and The Making of 'Jaws' (1995) to name a few. Unfortunately, the DVD format changes, and there is more demand for shorter documentaries to appeal to the masses.
This resulted in having to personally cut down the The Making of 'Jaws' (1995) for the 25th
Anniversary Jaws (1975) DVD. Now, the majority of his work it split up into three or so featurettes rather than one documentary. As for The Making of 'Jaws' (1995), it's finally being released onto DVD uncut, with the release of the 30th Anniversary DVD for Jaws (1975) in 2005.
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