After working for many years in Paris as an assistant director and assistant producer, Loïc Jourdain began directing his own documentaries in 1997 with Marin Karmitz’s production company MK2. After shooting his first feature film in Ireland, he decided to settle in Donegal in 2003, where he founded his own company, Lugh Films.
Since then, he has produced and directed several internationally acclaimed documentaries such as “Tory Island, after the prophecy” (2005), “Man of the Isles” (2006), “Íobairtaí” (2007), “Queen of Music” (2010), as well as numerous other films and series, broadcast and co-produced by the BBC, TG4, France 5, France 3, and the Irish Film Board.
His 2016 feature-length documentary, an Irish-French co-production titled “A Turning Tide in the Life of Man (Des Lois et des hommes),” was selected and awarded at numerous international festivals and was released in French theaters in 2017 (Docks 66). His latest film, “La Tribu des dieux,” was presented at FIPADOC in 2021 and has received numerous international awards.