2008 - Previous edition
Edito
Movies
“Maud Fontenoy à contre courant”
2007 – 75′
Director: Luc Marescot
Production: Gédéon Programmes
“L’enfant du chemin”
2006 – 59′
Director: Jean-François Castell
Production: Films du Rocher
“Baffin, l’île aux enfants”
2007 – 40′
Director: Sam Beaugey
Production: Seven Doc
“Hors du temps”
2006 – 52′
Director: Florence Tran
Production: Manuel Catteau
Co-production: ZED, Arte
“3 peaks 3 weeks for the people of Africa”
2007 – 52′
Director: Michael Brown
Production: David d’Angelo
“Sur les traces de Paul du Chaillu”
2007 – 60′
Director & production: Luc-Henri Fage
“Spectacles d’autres mondes”
2006 – 52′
Director: Valérian Mazataud
Production: Un œil sur le Monde
“Nomades’ Land Kirghizstan”
2007 – 52′
Director: Laurent Sbasnick
Production: Gédéon Programmes
“Nord”
Director: Peter Charaf
Production: Peter Pow Production
“Rendez-vous à Thulé”
2007 – 30′
Director & production: Dominique Simonneau
“Un désert vertical”
2006 – 48′
Director & production: Altisphère Daniel du Lac
“Mac Kinley 2006” – Hors compétition
Palmarès
Aigle d’Or de l’Aventure – Grand Prize of the festival
“Hors du temps”
Director: Florence Tran
Production: Manuel Catteau
Co-production: ZED, Arte
Public Grand Prize – Spectators’ favorite
“Maud Fontenoy à contre courant”
Director: Luc Marescot
Production: Gédéon Programmes
Alain Estève Prize – Technical qualities of the movie
“Un désert vertical”
Director & production: Altisphère Daniel du Lac
CMC Hope Prize – Encouragement prize for filmmaking
“Un désert vertical”
Director & production: Altisphère Daniel du Lac
Ceremony' master
Sylvain Tesson
Sylvain Tesson, member of the Society of French Explorers. A geographer by training, he divides his life between long-distance travel and writing. Its preferred regions correspond to the heart of immense Eurasia: Afghanistan, Siberia, Mongolia, Tibet. He publishes reports in the magazine press and has written around fifteen works including: Small treatise on the immensity of the world (Equators), Praise of wandering energy (Equators), News from the East (Phébus), the Axis of the Wolf (Robert Laffont).
His latest collection of short stories “A Life to Sleep Outside”, published by Gallimard in 2009, won the Goncourt short story prize and the Grand Prix de short story prize from the Académie française. Recently he published with Gallimard an account of the engagement and combat of Alpine hunters in Afghanistan: “High tension” (Gallimard).
He is the author of documentaries devoted to discovery and adventure broadcast on France 3, Voyage and France 5.
Jury's president
Patrick Baudry
Patrick Baudry, born March 6, 1946, in Douala, Cameroon, is a former fighter pilot of the French Air Force, test pilot, airline pilot and airline pilot instructor, professional helicopter pilot . He became the second French astronaut.
Leïla Ghandi
Leïla Ghandi
Leila Ghandi, born July 26, 1980 in Casablanca, is a Franco-Moroccan journalist, television host, producer, director and photographer.
She travels the world and devotes her Travel with Leila Ghandi shows to these trips.
Dorine Bourneton
Dorine Bourneton
Dorine Bourneton, born September 6, 1974 in Thiers, is a French aviator, writer and speaker.
The only survivor of a plane crash at the age of 16, she became the world’s first disabled woman aerobatic pilot.
Stéphane Victor
Stéphane Victor
Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1952, Stéphane Victor studied architecture and interior design at the Boulle school in Paris. After military service with Alpine hunters and then at the Chamonix High Mountain Military School in 1975, he turned to the tourism, sport and leisure sectors.
Holder of ski, sailing and windsurfing instructor diplomas, he became, after several years of sports teaching, director of the La Clusaz Tourist Office in 1980, of the Racing-Club de France facilities in 1986 , of the Sporting-Club of Vichy in 1991, of the Tourist Office of La Plagne in 1996 then of Deux-Alpes in 2001. He set up and managed, in 2003, his own project development consulting company, specializing in incentive, team building, team motivation seminars.
Since 2005, this ski, sailing and mountain enthusiast has returned to his initial profession: sports teaching. Alongside his activities, he traveled to most continents and was particularly influenced by Afghanistan and the Afghans, Greenland and the Inuit.
His discoveries, encounters, sharing with these populations and moments of symbiosis with nature led him, with the early guidance of his father, to pay particular attention to the changes undergone by our planet.
He also takes care of the official website dedicated to his father Paul-Émile Victor, while his twin sister Daphné Victor chairs the association which supports the Paul-Émile Victor Polar Center in Prémanon, in the Jura, which Stéphane Matériau directs.
