Jacques Toulemonde was born in Bogota into a French-Colombian family. In Paris, he studied literature at the Sorbonne.
Between 2003 and 2012, he worked as assistant director on several feature films of the new Colombian cinema. In 2010, he directed the short film "Un juego de niños", shot in Bogota and post-produced in France. This film, selected in more than thirty festivals, won more than ten awards, including the ACSE award in the national competition of the 2011 Clermont-Ferrand Festival.
During spring and summer 2014, he directed the feature film "Anna", a road movie between France and Colombia that tells the story of a young Colombian woman trying to conquer the love of her son. This film won three Macondo awards from the Colombian Film Academy, including Best Screenplay, and was nominated for Best Ibero-American Film at both the Goya Awards in Spain and the Ariel Awards in Mexico.
In 2017, he wrote and directed the series Truck Driver, produced by Evidencia Films for Studio+, Canal+'s virtual platform in France. This series was selected at the first edition of the Cannes Series festival and at the La Rochelle festival. Between 2018 and 2019, he directed three episodes and the second unit of the Netflix series "Green Border", of which he was also an associate producer. In 2023, he directed the Netflix original film "Historia de un Crimen - Mauricio Leal."
Alongside his work as a director, Jacques Toulemonde is a screenwriter and writer. Author of his own projects, he is also co-writer of the film "Embrace of the Serpent", winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at Sundance and nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. "Summer Birds" co-written by Toulemonde, opened the 2018 Directors' Fortnight. In collaboration with his writing duo, Juana del Rio, he co-wrote the Netflix series "Goles en Contra", as well as Jorge Cadena's first feature film Malestar Tropical.
