2009 - Previous edition
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Movies
“Sur la piste du renne blanc”
Director: Hamid Sardar
Production: ZED
“Odyssée amérindienne”
Director & production: David and Julie Ducoin
“Expédition Yangtsé”
Director: Geoffroy and Loic de la Tullaye
Coproduction: Gédéon Programmes, Biglo Prod
“Berhault”
Director: Gilles Chappaz, Raphaël Lassablière
Production: Migoo Production
“Le bonheur au bout du guidon”
Director: Christophe Cousin, Jacques Offre
Production: Gédéon Programmes
“Babouche”
Director: Charles Véron
Coproduction: Les Films du Bouchon, Planète Thalassa, France 3 Thalassa
“Horizon Vertical”
Director: Bruno Peyronnet
Production: Réalpiniste
“Broad Peak”
Director: Sébastien Touta, Sébastien Collomb-Gros
Coproduction: Puzzle Media, Moutain Line Foundation
“Un chemin de promesses”
Director: Edouard and Mathilde Cortès, Frédéric Réau
Production: Gédéon Programmes
“No Need for Parking”
Production: Mike Blyth, Marianne Schwankhart, James Pitman
“Qhapaq Nan, à la recherche de la grande route inca”
Director: Laurent Granier, Megan Son, Alexis Barbier Bouvet
Coproduction: Gédéon Programmes, Voyage, France 5
Awards
Aigle d’Or de l’Aventure – Grand Prize of the festival“Berhault”
Director: Gilles Chappaz, Raphaël Lassablière
Production: Migoo Production
Public Grand Prize – Spectators’ favorite
“Broad Peak”
Director: Sébastien Touta, Sébastien Collomb-Gros
Coproduction: Puzzle Media, Mountain Line Foundation
Alain Estève Prize – Technical qualities of the movie
“Sur la piste du renne blanc”
Director: Hamid Sardar
Production: ZED
CMC Hope Prize – Encouragement prize for filmmaking“Babouche”
Director: Charles Véron
Coproduction: Les Films du Bouchon, Planète Thalassa, France 3 Thalassa
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
Céline Géraud
Born on February 13, 1968 in Forbach, Céline Géraud is a former judo champion, converted to television animation. After a busy sporting career, crowned in particular by the title of European champion in 1984, Céline Géraud is one of those high-level athletes who have successfully retrained in the world of television. Her talents as a commentator and host quickly hit the mark.
In 1998, she began her new career as a journalist for the program “Tout le sport”, broadcast daily on France 3. Through hard work, the young woman proved herself and climbed the ranks. Céline Géraud produces subjects for “Stade 2”, then is entrusted with sections during major events such as the Paris-Dakar or the Olympic Games. Jack of all trades, Céline Géraud decides to try a new adventure on TF1 by presenting the reality TV show “Temptation Island”. It was at this time that she collaborated with Denis Brogniart for the show “Auto Moto”. After this interlude, Céline Géraud joined the Orange Sport channel in 2008, where she hosted “La Ligue 1 fait son tour” and “Absolutely Foot”.
Insatiable, the host also dabbles in the world of radio by joining the RMC Dream Team. If Céline Géraud is a very busy woman, she nonetheless remains an attentive mother to her two children named Margaux and Anouck.
Pierre Tardivel
Pierre Tardivel
Pierre Tardivel is a French guide and extreme skier born November 26, 1963 in Annecy. He achieved around a hundred firsts in extreme skiing in the Alps.
Daniel du Lac
Daniel du Lac
Recognized climber and competitor, with a hat-trick to his credit in 2004; French champion, European champion and winner of the Bouldering World Cup.
Isabelle Vayron
Isabelle Vayron
Born in Lille in 1975, Isabelle Vayron traveled from the end of her studies to hypokhâgne, khâgne and the Practical Institute of Journalism in Paris. In 1998, she spent six months on horseback and by bike among the cowboys of New Caledonia, Australia and New Zealand. In the company of her cousin Xavier, she cycled 17,500 km across twenty-one countries, from Paris to Beijing, meeting around a hundred musicians and singers, professionals and amateurs, whom she filmed, recorded, photographed and interviewed (1999-2001).
Isabelle Vayron also rode a motorbike from Paris to Kabul in 2003, and reported in Australia for the Saola agency, for the magazines Terre sauvage, VSD and Grands Reportages, in Oceania for GEO, Le Nouvel Observateur, La Vie and Télé 7 Jours, in India for the Explorer agency, Grands Reportages, Biba and Cheval Magazine. She participated in the show “L’aventure à 20 ans” on “Zone Interdicte”, broadcast on M6 in 1998.
Spirited, Isabelle Vayron admits to a pronounced taste for extreme sports: skydiving, bungee jumping, enduro motorcycle, surfing, skwall. She also climbed Kilimanjaro and reported in Arusha National Park, Tanzania, for the Explorer agency (1997).
For Altitude, the photographic agency of Yann Arthus-Bertrand, from 2004 to 2007 she carried out interviews and reports all over the world.
