---
name: "Jean Luc Herbulot"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jean-luc-herbulot"
fi1m_id: "jean-luc-herbulot"
imdb_id: "nm2699094"
tmdb_id: 1447267
wikidata_id: "Q6171067"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 January 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T00:35:41.489319+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jean Luc Herbulot

## Identity

Jean Luc Herbulot

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jean-luc-herbulot
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jean-luc-herbulot
- **IMDb ID:** nm2699094
- **TMDB ID:** 1447267
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6171067
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Luc_Herbulot, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6171067, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2699094/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1447267

Director. Born 1 January 1983 in Pointe-Noire.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1983, Pointe-Noire
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Luc_Herbulot, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6171067, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2699094/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1447267

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Get Millie Black*](https://film.one/tv/get-millie-black.md) (75)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Jean Luc Herbulot is a Congolese film director and screenwriter. Born in 1983 in Pointe-Noire, he began drawing and writing stories at a young age, later pursuing graphic design after moving to Paris in 2000. He worked for six years at the French television channel TF1 before relocating to Los Angeles.

Herbulot made his feature debut with *Dealer* (2014), which became one of the first French independent films acquired by Netflix. In 2019 he created and directed the series *Sakho & Mangane* for Canal+ Afrique, the first French-language African television series to be acquired by Netflix. He wrote and directed the feature *Saloum* (2021), produced in partnership with Pamela Diop through Lacmé Studios in Dakar, Senegal. Herbulot directed one episode of the 2024 series *Get Millie Black*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, fr.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Get Millie Black* (2024), Fi1m 75, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/get-millie-black.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Zero* (2025), Writer, Director
- *Get Millie Black* (2024), series, Director — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/get-millie-black.md)
- *Interstate* (2024), Director
- *Saloum* (2023), Director, Producer, Writer, Story
- *Sakho & Mangane* (2019), series, as Art Direction · Creator
- *Dealer* (2014), Writer, Director
- *Falco* (2013), series, Director
- *Sick* (2012), Director, Writer
- *The Bends*, Director

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