Bruno Aveillan (born in Toulouse, February 24, 1968) is a French direc­tor, pho­tog­ra­pher and mul­ti­me­dia artist.

Graduate of the École Supérieure des Beaux-​Arts in Toulouse, Bruno Aveillan has notably pro­duced numer­ous adver­tis­ing films for brands such as Guerlain, Cartier, Orange, Perrier, Audi, Nike, Louis Vuitton and many others.

His work, and in par­tic­u­lar his per­sonal approach to pho­tog­ra­phy and light, is reg­u­larly cited as a ref­er­ence by famous names in cinema.

Director in 2001 of the film for the launch of Lanvin’s Oxygen per­fume, he made Gisele Bündchen work for the first time on screen. Many other celebri­ties have also found them­selves behind his lens, includ­ing: Monica Bellucci, Claudia Schiffer, Natalia Vodianova, Sharon Stone, Milla Jovovich, Rachel Weisz, etc.

In 2008, Louis Vuitton called on him to direct the first adver­tis­ing film in its his­tory, enti­tled Where will life take you. In a 90-​second for­mat and trans­lated into 14 lan­guages, this film has won numer­ous awards includ­ing a Gold Clio Award, a Gold Award at the London International Awards, and an Epica Award.

In 2012, Bruno Aveillan directed the film L’Odyssée for Cartier. Lasting an excep­tional three and a half min­utes, this film illus­trates the great moments in the his­tory of the brand by stag­ing the sur­real jour­ney of a pan­ther, ani­mal sym­bol of Cartier. Previewed at MOMA in New York and at the Grand Palais in Paris, this film was then seen in the space of three months by more than 160 mil­lion view­ers worldwide.

In April 2019, he pro­duced Eternals for Puy du Fou, seven min­utes of breath­tak­ing images shot in the authen­tic Puy du Fou set­tings with more than 200 actors, 600 cos­tumes, 30 horses and 2 tons of fire­works. Worthy of a block­buster film and endowed with cap­ti­vat­ing music, this film required more than two and a half years of prepa­ra­tion and was widely acclaimed by critics.

But if Bruno Aveillan is one of the best direc­tors of French adver­tis­ing, he is nonethe­less a tal­ented visual artist. Bruno Aveillan has devel­oped a dense and syn­cretic research work, in the form of exper­i­men­tal films and pho­tographs. The recur­ring themes of mem­ory and the human body played major roles in his work.

In 2017 he pro­duced for the cen­te­nary of Auguste Rodin a mag­nif­i­cent doc­u­men­tary Divino Inferno on the matrix work of the famous sculp­tor “La Porte de l’en­fer”. In this doc­u­men­tary of rare visual inten­sity, Bruno Aveillan unveils the unsus­pected story of Rodin’s mas­ter­piece, inspired by Dante’s The Divine Comedy, which com­bines visual arts, dance, poetry and literature

His work, awarded at numer­ous fes­ti­vals, has been the sub­ject of sev­eral exhi­bi­tions, and sev­eral of his works are part of pres­ti­gious pub­lic and pri­vate collections.

Bruno Aveillan also sup­ports the action of NGOs such as Reporters sans fron­tières, la Banque Alimentaire and the Paralympic Games for which he has made sev­eral films. He is also an ambas­sador for the Heart Fund.