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1999

Jury

19

to

22

April

1999

Edito

Awards

Aigle d’Or de l’Aventure – Grand Prize of the festival
“The wall crawler”
Director: Alain Robert

Special Jury Prize – Originality of the scenario
“Dans les griffes du chat”
Director: Victor Pujebet Priou

The jury’s favorite goes to
Spiderman, to reward all of his exploits
and highlight this man unloved by certain French media.

Public Grand Prize Spectators’ favorite
“La marche dans le ciel”
Director: Tesson – Poussin

Alain Estève Prize – Technical qualities of the movie
“Montagnes de brumes”
Director: Emmanuel Priou – Neblina

CMC Hope Prize – Encouragement prize for filmmaking
“De mes propres ailes”
Director: Dorine Bourneton

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

Serge Kœnig

Guide of the Chamonix-Mont-Blanc Company of Alsatian origin, Serge Kœnig was a professor at the National Ski and Mountaineering School for seventeen years and advisor to the office of the Minister of Sports from 2002 to 2007. Since , he works at the French consulate in Chengdu in China, where he is in charge of Alps-Sichuan cooperation for the development and development of tourism and sports in the mountains.

Solenn Bardet

Solenn Bardet

Solenn Bardet is a geographer, ethnologist, writer, documentarian, president of Kovahimba-France.
Nourished by the writings of Isabelle Eberhardt and Lawrence of Arabia, Solenn Bardet very early dreamed of somewhere else. At the age of 18, this young enthusiast found herself in Africa with the desire to meet the Himba, a semi-nomadic people living in the north of Namibia.

Solenn Bardet recounted this adventure in “Barefoot on the red earth: journey among the Himba, shepherds of Namibia”, a book published by Laffont in 2008.

In 2012, she directed a film co-written with around twenty members of this people, “The Himba make their cinema!”, which was screened at the opening of the Étonnants Voyageurs Festival in St-Malo. It was broadcast on France 5 in May 2012 and received several awards.

Philippe Boucher

Philippe Boucher

Director, producer and photographer but also organizer of events related to images, in France and Northern Europe.

Didier Regnier

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.