Baptiste Janon was born in Albi (France) in 1981. After attending drama school in Brussels (Lassaad), he studied directing at the IAD (Belgium), from which he graduated in 2008 with Suzannze and Procédure d’Eloignement. In 2018, with Dernière pêche, he directed his first feature-length documentary, broadcast on RTBF and France Télévision.