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2000

Jury

April

2000

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Movies

“Pêcheurs du Grand Bleu”
1999 – 52′ – France
Pacific Ocean, Vanuatu archipelago. François Grosvalet and Eric Clua are fishermen of the Big Blue, capable of staying 4’30” in apnea, reaching 38 meters deep to hunt prey weighing more than 300 kilos.

“Les amoureux du Pôle”
1999 – 52′ – France
It’s the story of a couple, Lycia Goubin and Arnaud Tortel, who decide to try to go and return to the Magnetic Pole together in 60 days. A crossing of 1300 kilometers carried out on foot, on skis and without assistance.

“Kashmir”
1999 – 52′ – France
Denis Rey, Pat Fériz and Antonin Lieutaghi fly to Kashmir, to ski the biggest mountain range: the Himalayas. They will discover this country, its population, its culture… and the immense fields of virgin snow. They are accompanied by Sylvain Saudan, pioneer of extreme skiing in the 60s and 70s.

“From nowhere to the middle of nowhere”
1999 – 45′ – UK
In May 1999, John Silvester took off with his paraglider for the first crossing of western Nepal. Shot with a single camera, director Alun Hugues offers us an original and exciting film.

“Island of the sharks”
1999 – 40′ – USA
Exploration in the heart of the enchanting underwater world of Coco Island, Costa Rica. Marlins, white tip reef sharks, sea turtles and stingrays inhabit these waters. Award-winning film at the Antibes World Underwater Image Festival

“True Fans”
1999 – 41′ – USA
Three cyclists’ epic journey through the Rockies from Venice Beach, Los Angeles to Springfield, Massachusetts. A truly original film filled with a spirit of adventure where humor is constant.

“Annapurna, histoire d’une conquête”
1999 – 52′ – France
A film made with a new perspective, that of the historian: why the French engaged in this race for the first 8000 and what were the motivations of those who accomplished this feat. With the testimonies of M. Herzog, L. Chenal, L.Terray, the notebooks of Rebuffat and the sherpa Tarkey.

“L’Odyssée Blanche”
1999 – 90′ – France
Nicolas Vanier accomplished the feat of crossing Northern Canada, from the Pacific to the Atlantic by dog sled in less than 100 days.

Awards

Aigle d’Or de l’Aventure – Grand Prize of the festival
“From nowhere to the middle of nowhere”
John Silvester
Director: Alun Hugues
Production: Alun Hugues

Public Grand Prize – Spectators’ favorite
“Kashmir”
Denis Rey, Pat Fériz et Antonin Lieutaghi
Director: Daniel Lafarge
Production: Ultra sport Prod.

Alain Estève Prize – Technical qualities of the movie
“L’Odyssée blanche”
Nicolas Vanier
Production: MC4

CMC Hope Prize – Encouragement prize for filmmaking
“Les amoureux du Pôle”
Lycia Goubin et Arnaud Tortel
Director: Thierry Dagobert
Production: Gédéon Programmes

Ceremony' master

Didier Regnier

Didier Regnier is a French television host.

1978: winner of The Race Around the World.
1984: host and editor-in-chief of Le Grand raid.
1985: senior reporter for the human rights magazine Résistances.
1988: host of Sagarmatha 88, first direct connection from Everest.

He was host of “Samedi passion” with Gérard Holtz, “Aventures voyages”, “Samedi adventure”, editor-in-chief of “C’est au programme” and official presenter of the Aventure et Découverte festival.

He published “L’aventure du grand Raid” with Robert Laffont in 1986.

Jury's president

Peggy Bouchet

Peggy Bouchet is a French sailor and entrepreneur, born in Évian-les-Bains on June 6, 1973.
She completed a DUT in law and management, then a master’s degree in logistics and maritime management at the University of Plymouth. It was at this time that she discovered a passion for the maritime world and took up sailing.
In 1995, while she was finalizing her training in Brest, she decided to row across the Atlantic Ocean.
Working for the 3M company, she returns to Brest every weekend to build her boat. This, completed in 1997, she resigned in 1998 to create her company responsible for managing her adventure.
In 1998, she embarked on her first rowing across the Atlantic Ocean but failed 110 kilometers from the finish.
In 2000, at the age of 26, on her second attempt, she successfully rowed the Atlantic solo in less than 49 days, becoming the first woman in the world to row solo across the Atlantic at paddle.
Since then, she has worked in the renewable energy sector and hosts conferences and seminars.

Olivier Föllmi

Olivier Follmi readily describes himself as a “photographer of the world”. He was deeply influenced by the Himalayan world and with his wife Danielle, they built a family by adopting four Tibetan children. They also founded a support association for education projects in the Himalayas: HOPE (Himalayan Organization for People & Education(.

This love story will tour the world and be rewarded with the most prestigious prizes. It was by developing a passion for elsewhere that Olivier Follmi became a great “traveling photographer”. It is at this price that “you will have something to share, to say and to show. A perfect but meaningless photo will never equal a blurry photo with an upsetting message.

From each of their journeys a book will be born where photos and texts are a true ode to life and a means of sharing emotion with as many people as possible. Olivier Föllmi captured hundreds of portraits of children and always looked at them with a tender and moving look. From Tajikistan to India, from Mexico to Argentina, from Ethiopia to Namibia, they are there, laughing and charming, tender or sulky, witnesses of a world that their presence illuminates.

Laurence de La Ferrière

A graduate in mathematics, Laurence de La Ferrière turned to the transverse flute for a time before finding her path: climbing, the mountains. First the Alps then the Himalayas. She conquered several prestigious summits before beating the women’s world record for altitude without oxygen at 8,700 meters on Everest in 1992.

In 1997, she was the first French woman to reach the South Pole alone after a crossing of 1,400 km in fifty-seven days.

Mother of two children, she lives in Chamonix where she is a high mountain guide.

Didier Regnier

Didier Regnier is a French television host.

He published “L’aventure du grand Raid” with Robert Laffont in 1986.