Jacques Malaterre is a French filmmaker and film director, born in Avignon, Vaucluse. Teacher for children with disabilities, and host of radio stations before 1989, he made documentaries and the docufiction aired on television. Among the latter, A Species Odyssey, and , dedicated to prehistory and human evolution with scientist Yves Coppens as a consultant, had a wide audience with the general public. On 29 September 2010, he released the film Ao: The Last Hunter, an adaptation of the novel by , Ao l'homme ancien.