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2006

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2006

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Awards

Aigle d’Or de l’Aventure – Grand Prize of the festival
“Les montagnes du silence”
Director: Luc Marescot
Production: Yves Bourgeois, ATOM

Public Grand Prize Spectators’ favorite
“Coast to coast”
Director: Olivier Aubert, Mike Blyth
Production: Mangetti Productions

Alain Estève Prize – Technical qualities of the movie
“Le trésor”
Director: Henri de Gerlache, Marc Temmerman
Production: Arctic, Alizé Productions

CMC Hope Prize – Encouragement prize for filmmaking
“Québec Givrés”
Director: Sam Beaugey, Erwann le Lann
Production: Seven Doc

Planet Cinematographic Achievement Award
“Coast to coast”
Director: Olivier Aubert, Mike Blyth
Production: Mangetti Productions

Ceremony' master

Sylvain Tesson

Sylvain Tesson, 38 years old, 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.

La Présidente de Jury

Maud Fontenoy

Born on September 7, 1977, she embarked on the family schooner on her 7th day, followed by 15 years of sailing. Back in France, she became manager of a real estate agency, founding president of the French Federation of Traditional Sailing and Oaring Boats, and created an association whose aim was to help young people from difficult neighborhoods sail.

Then adventure calls:

  • 2003: 1st woman to successfully row the North Atlantic.
  • 2005: 1st woman to successfully row across the Pacific.

With each time the same determination, the same desire to do and the same passion, she sets herself new challenges out of love for the sea, nature and others, sharing as best she can her taste for adventure with children from mainland France. and overseas.

Ambassador of Nicolas Hulot’s “challenge for the earth”, member of the society of French explorers, she devotes herself today to her first passion: sailing, associated with the transmission of values.

Christophe Cousin

Christophe Cousin

Travel writer, author of reports and books, Christophe Cousin has decided to live his life and devote part of it to adventure and
travel.

In search of his own geography, he devotes himself to
expeditions of various kinds combining discovery and surpassing oneself.
The mystery of distant lands is its quest, the modes of transport
slow its means, raising awareness of the diversity of our planet and of humankind one of its objectives.

Aged 29, he has just completed a world tour by bike to meet the happiness of others. Resulting from this trip, a book published by Arthaud: “Happiness at the end of the handlebars”, and a film.

He is currently preparing other projects, each time nourished by this same desire to do, to share,
to write and dream.
2002-2004: 27 months around the world by bike.
2005: Release of “Happiness at the end of the handlebars”.
2006: Immersion project in utopian communities around the world.

Frédérique Delrieu

Frédérique Delrieu

Frédérique Delrieu alone represents courage, determination and
success. Its particularity: crossing the highest mountains without oxygen,
not for the exploit, but to be as close as possible to one’s own truth.
Touching your limits is part of the game and the experience is all the more
edifying.
The youngest woman in the world to climb Everest in 1991 at the age of 24, she already has the greatest European summits under her belt.

This young image reporter aims for the highest, the hardest, the strongest but above all the most intense in terms of discovery of self and others. It is towards the Himalayas that she will experience her greatest sensations. She thus carried out six expeditions over 8000 m between 1991 and 2005 and multiple others at lower altitudes, all over the world.

Always accompanied by her trusty digital camera, alongside her exploits she produces films and reports covered by the media around the world.

Specialist
eight miles without oxygen Frédérique is also a fan of the Himalayas where she lives more than six months a year.

Beyond the sporting challenge represented by its climbs, each of them is above all a very strong human adventure.
Frédérique takes a step of sharing with everyone she meets, and her sensitivity, her open-mindedness and her curiosity make her a very endearing adventurer.

Michaël Pitiot

Michaël Pitiot

Michaël Pitiot discovers the pleasure of traveling in Africa during stays in the deserts of Niger,
Mali and Mauritania, and in the forests of Zaire, Burundi and Rwanda where he made his first
reports.

After a childhood spent in Algeria, he pursued engineering studies
at the University of Technology of Compiègne. Every summer break is
the opportunity to hit the road. Often the least paved: the slopes of the
Hoggar in the south of Algeria, driving a used car bought for
the trip. A real annual rite.

At 23, forgetting his engineering degree, he opted for the production of television documentaries and went to Vietnam to coordinate a first series of films. He remained in this country for six years as an audiovisual attaché at the French Consulate in Saigon. At the end of his contract, this lover of adventure, whose childhood was influenced by Kipling or Monfreid, cannot see himself leaving Asia other than aboard a junk.
He therefore built Sao Mai, a 40-ton junk, and set sail, heading
the west, as captain with 30 crew members on a hazardous journey that will last two years.

Films, books: the job becomes clearer during the trip.
His encounters will bring him back to the south at the age of 30 with the organization of another maritime expedition but this time aboard a racing sailboat: Portes d’Afrique, the complete tour of the major ports of Africa with a crew of writers (Orsenna, Le Clezio, Rufin, etc.) and journalists (Le Figaro, Arte, RFI). Then it will be the east, with Afghanistan, the plains of Central Asia and Bhutan.
Today he is heading north, heading to the Arctic for a polar project.

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