As soon as he graduated in film and television production in 2012, he collaborated in a collective where he wrote the screenplays and co-directed the short film Libre-Service. The film wins more then 10 awards at the "International 24 hour film Race" such as the "audience choice" at the Montreal screening and "best director" at the New York finals closing the festival with the top prize of $10,000.
In 2018, his pilot of the fantasy web-series project Bloodtears screened at the Montreal Fantasia Festival, then is selected again to be part of the "Shorts to Features" program at the Marché Frontières in 2021 in association with the Marché de Cannes. A year later, his feature film script Cadillac Deception won Best Action/Adventure Screenplay at the Cannes Screenplay Contest and secured a purchase agreement from High Star Entertainment in Toronto. At the end of 2020, he completed the medium-length film Les Aspirants ( the Contenders ), which he directed and produced independently.
In the summer of 2021 Jean-Paul was selected to direct his short film Finding Feodan as part of KABARET SPASM for the SPASM Festival of the same year. The film is also part of the 2022 edition of the Fantasia Festival, the Burbank International Film Festival, the 56th Houston WorldFest International Film Festival and the Quebec City Film Festival just to name a few. In April 2022 he was invited to present his web series project "Starman" at the Rendez-vous Pro of the Rendez-Vous Québec Cinéma festival, then he was invited to be part of a cohort of 10 screenwriters during a networking organized in collaboration with SODEC during the Fantasia Festival of the same year. More recently he was selected for the FNC's "Pitchs premières oeuvres" in collaboration with Netflix and Eurimages to present his script for the feature film "Cadillac Deception".
Alongside his ambitions as a filmmaker, he works as a cameraman for production companies such as KoTV, Zone 3, Trio Orange and Sphère Média. In addition to having worked on more than 150 productions to date, he always strives to advance and produce his various projects ranging from documentary series to feature films.
