Here, elsewhere… Everywhere there is adventure. And it is here in Val d’Isère that it will continue for four days. It is here that we will share together, once again, dreams, emotion, enchantment, special moments… More than ever, the resort of Val d’Isère is happy to host the International Festival of Film Adventure & Discovery, chaired for its 15th edition, by journalist presenter Frédéric Lopez.
On the program, 11 films, extraordinary guests, adventurers of the impossible, exhibitions, great shows…
Welcome everyone and have a good festival!
Sylvain Tesson
Sylvain Tesson studied geography and geopolitics with Yves Lacoste before devoting his life to writing and long-distance travel.
After presenting the program Montagnes (France 3), he cycled around the world, crossed the Himalayas on foot, Central Asia on horseback, walked from Siberia to India in the footsteps of gulag escapees. , traveled the Caucasus and Anatolia to investigate oil, participated in humanitarian and archaeological missions in Afghanistan.
From his adventures in the Russian Far East, Mongolia, the Himalayas and Tibet, he brought back around fifteen stories, essays and collections of short stories, most of which are available in pocket editions. His latest work recounts the life of Alpine hunters in Afghanistan: Haute tension, Gallimard. His collection A Life to Sleep Outside published by Gallimard won the Goncourt for short stories in 2009 and the short story prize from the Académie Française.
He collaborates with Figaro Magazine, writes documentaries for France 5. He loves climbing, books and horse riding. Last year he stayed in a cabin in the middle of the Russian forest for six months and is preparing a “Cabin Journal” to be published in the Nouvelle Revue Française in spring 2011.
Frédéric Lopez
In 1991, he started Autoroute info, the first traffic information radio station. In 1992, he started at Télé Lyon Métropole. The same year he directed Créateurs de rêve, for the magazine Zone Interdite. Then he joined the LCI editorial team, first as an image reporter then presenting the information. He will then present the Cinema magazine. In 1998, France 2 entrusted him with the design, editor-in-chief and presentation of a magazine devoted to cinema. It will be Like in the Cinema until 2003.
In 2004, he designed and wrote the program En terre Inconnue on France 5. In 2006, Rendez-vous en terre Inconnue was broadcast at 8:50 p.m. on France 2. In 2008, France 2 broadcast Panique dans l’autrette, another creation by Frédéric Lopez.
In 2011 Rendez-vous en terre Inconnue was voted the French people’s favorite program. The broadcast of December 14, 2010 broke an audience record since it was watched by more than 8 million viewers, or 30% market share.
Sophie Jovillard
Sophie Jovillard
She began her career at TLM (Télé Lyon Métropole) in 1995, where for two years she hosted CQFD, a daily live cultural magazine. After a stint with France 3 Rhône-Alpes Auvergne and France 3 Bourgogne Franche-Comté, in 1999 she joined France 3 Méditerranée, where she hosted several magazines devoted to discovery and travel, such as La Route du montagne, Détour du monde or Hub by on the Travel channel.
In 2002, she was the host and artistic producer of the Mediterranean coastal magazine La Belle Bleue; then, in 2005, Pop’Art, a magazine of all cultures, and the documentary program Les Grands Moments de la télé. In 2006, she co-produced and hosted the magazine Une nuit en ville, where she walks the streets of a city at night in the company of an artist.
Since December 2006, on France 5 the insatiable globetrotter has presented Echappées belles. In 2010, she also hosted a column on Stéphane Bern’s show Comment ça va bien! on France 2, where she gives advice on traveling smarter, and offers fun, economical and friendly weekend ideas for the whole family.
Sophie is also an editorial writer for the Lonely Planet press magazine.
Laurent Guillaume
Laurent Guillaume
After studying communications, and four years spent in the editorial office of Télé Lyon Métropole as a journalist reporter, Laurent Guillaume joined France 3 Rhône-Alpes in 1993 where he created several discovery magazines.
In 1998, faithful to his passion for the mountains and those who experience them, he launched the first issue of Chroniques d’en Haut, a magazine entirely devoted to the discovery of the mountain world, in the massifs of France and the world. During these thirteen years at the head of this magazine – of which he is also the presenter – he has produced numerous documentaries in France and abroad. His broadcasts listen to the mountain people he meets at home, in the field.
Laurent Guillaume was born in Lyon in 1967, and divides his time between the Capital of Gaul where he lives when he is not filming, and his little “refuge” lost in the Maurienne mountains.
Chroniques d’en Haut is now broadcast in 20 of the 24 regions of France 3, on France 3 Sat, and TV5 Monde. The show celebrated its 400th issue last year.
Samantha Davies
Samantha Davies
Samantha Davies revealed herself to the general public during the 2009 Vendée Globe. During the three months spent alone on her Roxy, Sam demonstrated her pugnacity and her joy of sailing to all those who did not know her. didn’t know yet.
Her achievement – 4th in the Vendée Globe, first woman in the race, first British in the fleet – experienced extraordinary media and popular impact.
His way of living and sharing the most beautiful and difficult of the great solo races touched and seduced the public but it was also – above all – his qualities as a sailor, his tactical sense and his well-built head which made him allowed him to place his old 60-footer ahead of the latest generation boats in the race rankings. Respected by her peers, the member of the Pôle France de Port La Forêt, a former talented figarist, entered the world of great sailors with a bang. And intends to stay there.
Monday
18
April
5.45pm
Skyliner
| Direction | SEBASTIEN MONTAZ-ROSSET |
| Duration | 10 min. |
Inspired by the pioneer of this discipline in France, Damien Mercier, a quartet of climbers developed a passion for slacklining. This awareness of the need to live fully in the present moment soon led Julien Millot to leave a promising career as a computer engineer. Julien now lives in his truck and his whole life is punctuated by the opening of new highlines in the four corners of the world. Jelena, Ingrid, Julien, Tancrède, Antoine and Sébastien see high and are no longer satisfied with the highlines of the Verdon. During the summer of 2010, they set their sights on the Mont Blanc massif and soon mixed mountaineering with highlining.
Tuesday
19
April
4pm
L'appel des pôles
| Duration | 52 min. |
Imagine the pack ice, icebergs floating as far as the eye can see, and penguins moving in their hundreds on these white lands. Welcome to Antarctica, some 13,000 kilometers from Paris. The continent, 13 million square kilometers, is a land of peace and science protected by the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 and the Madrid Protocol of 1991. Since 1986, commercial whaling has been banned there, as has unscientific exploitation of mineral resources.
Thursday
21
April
9pm
C’était la fôret des pluies prologue
| Direction | Luc Jacquet |
Botanist Francis Hallé and director Luc Jacquet have teamed up to make a major heritage film on the last primary tropical forests. Through their images, their words, their emotions, they decided to leave a sensitive and erudite testimony to future generations on what these great wild forests were like where the great natural mechanisms could follow their course outside the influence of man. .
Wednesday April 20th at 4pm - Aigle des Neiges hotel
“Save your logo” tea party at the Aigle des Neiges hotel, hosted by Antoine Cadi, scientific advisor to the Biodiversity Endowment Fund.
Thursday April 21st at 9am - Media library
Breakfast hosted by the media library with Florian Bailly and François Picard around their books « Sur la route du Soleil Levant » and « Ma Chine. Route de la soie, Tibet, Hongkong à vélo ».
Photographer - Florian Bailly
Go with Florian Bailly on the road to the Rising Sun, the first solar electric bike journey ever made. From France to Japan, 10,000 km of a human and technological adventure which will have many surprises in store for him, but which will above all have demonstrated that it is today possible to travel on solar power!
Photos developed by Hugo Photo.
Photographer - Elise and Louis-Marie Blanchard
Paintings and ethnographic objects to discover the art and life of the yurt people, these nomadic horsemen of the steppes and mountains of Mongolia. The country has two million horses, and more than 25 million heads of livestock: sheep, Kashmir goats, yaks and camels. From the sands of the Gobi to the Altai mountains, a change of scenery is guaranteed…
Entitled “Jaws Syndrome”, this exhibition was created to show the true face of the shark to the general public. Since 1975 and the famous Spielberg film, sharks have had a false reputation as man-eaters and have been victims of the crime of “dirty mouth”.
Photographer - François Picard
For 4 months, reporter François Picard sets out to cross China by bike. Tibetan monk hiding his photos of the Dalai Lama, Silk Road peasants dreaming of social advancement, urbanites in revolt against the injustices of the system or fascinated by the growth of the economy, forgotten minorities, youth losing their bearings… His route is dotted with dozens of encounters which reveal a rich portrait of China, far from Beijing and its Olympics!
Sylvain Tesson
Sur la route Bleue avec Sylvain Tesson
He was born in 1972 and spent his childhood near Chatou with his journalist parents. He studied geography. He is an adventurer, a wanderer. He climbs the bell towers, cliffs and monuments of Paris. He likes diving, horse riding, motorcycling. He sounds the Scottish bagpipes. He crossed Siberia, the steppes of Central Asia and the Himalayas several times, on foot, on horseback, alone or with accomplices. He is the author of several travel stories, including The Axis of the Wolf, books of reflections such as Small Treatise on the Immensity of the World, and collections of short stories about the world such as A Life to Sleep Outside. Sylvain Tesson, the wanderer, passionate, generous, is today’s travel writer. Open this little travel biography dedicated to Sylvain Tesson. Discover the character and his books, through interviews, chronicles, and unpublished texts.
Frédéric Lopez
Rendez-vous en terre inconnue
Louis Bodin, weather presenter on TF1 and RTL and Bernard Thomasson, presenter of France Inter’s 12-14, novelist and meteorology enthusiast after fifteen years on the Météo Chaîne, have co-written a Weather Travel Guide. The two journalists advise travelers month by month depending on the climate.
Jacques Henri Addor, Bertrand Piccard
Solar Impulse Hb-sia
On July 7, 2010, the Solar Impulse HB-SIA had an appointment with its destiny. Eight years preceded this historic flight. Eight years covered in images and future visions in the new book Solar Impulse HB-SIA. Through 176 richly illustrated pages, you will be able to relive this human and technological challenge, share the pioneering spirit of this adventure and associate yourself with the messages of hope it conveys. Text in 3 languages: French, German, English.
Florian Bailly
Sur la route du Soleil levant
Presented on the occasion of the Grand Bivouac 2010, the book dedicated to the journey is now available. A work written and edited as I progressed, for 115 color pages in an illustrated travel notebook style going back in detail on the preparation phase and the progress of this first on a solar electric bike.
Samantha Davies
Une fille dans le vent
Samantha Davies: special signs? The smile, the optimism, a bit of English accent, a girl in a man’s world. At the end of the last Vendée Globe 2009-2010, a solo, non-stop world tour, Samantha Davies did not arrive first, but fourth. A performance ? Yes of course. All the more appreciable since the sailor has also won the hearts of the public. For three months, the featherweight of the race, aged 36, her good humor, her know-how, embodied another way of sailing. Ever more sophisticated means of communication – online photos, shared blogs, minute videos – have brought together in its wake entire legions of earthlings amazed by such spontaneity. Throughout her book, Samantha Davies puts forward other arguments. A salty childhood, passionate parents, studies at Cambridge, a team spirit – but, even more, a taste for happiness like no other. A taste that today this extraordinary sailor would like to share with as many people as possible.
Alain Maignan
Le facteur au long cours
The postman from Plélan, Alain Maignan, sailed around the world alone, non-stop, on a production sailboat… then he resumed his tour.
Elise, Louis, Marie and Thomas Blanchard
Nomades et caravanes d’orient sur les routes de la soie
This book is a journey on the roads of silk, tea, jade, spices, wool, gold and horses, roads which start from the confines of China and end at the gates of the Mediterranean. by the fabulous bazaars of Central Asia. It is also an encounter with the local populations of Central Asia, their history and their living environment: snow-capped mountains of Altai, Pamir and Karakorum, immense steppes and gigantic deserts. A discovery of around fifteen countries through current and historical testimonies, in the footsteps of the greatest caravans of the Orient.
