Jean G. was born in 1958. He was raised in Egypt (Cairo). He studied litterature and cinema in Paris and became a tv reporter for French TV and a youth novel writer (a dozen of novels published)

When he was 35, he radically changed his life and goals and became a porn director and producer. He took the name of John B. Root.

Since 1995 and the creation of his company, he directed 15 feature films that were broadcasted by many european TV's, and by Canal Plus in France. he also directed several hundreds of hours of adult videos. He is his own photographer, script writer, cameraman and editor.

Today, John is one of the most famous X directors in France. Traditionnal French press and medias often publishes about him.

He created his website explicite-art.com in order to finance his movies. Explicite-art is run by a team of five persons, including John.

"John B. Root is obviously, by far, the best French movie maker in that genre in which we don't find so many geniuses..."
CAHIERS DU CINEMA
"John B. Root is the best thing that happened in the French Porn industry since fifteen years"
STARFIX