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Awards 2010

Grand Prix

  Wild opera




Year completed: 2009


A film by: Laurent Frapat
Produced by: Laurent Frapat

Wild Opera invites us to follow the loop in music of the great migration of wildebeest and zebra from Tanzania to Kenya.

Born in the Serengeti, the smaller will soon have to learn to walk again to reach the green grasslands of Masai Mara, trying to avoid lions, cheetahs and other predators that they too need to feed their young.


Amateur Award

  Voyage au pays de chez soi




Year completed: 2009


A film by: Roland Rousseaux
Produced by: Roland Rousseaux

Often regarded as the pre neighbor's greener than hers. Just cross the fence and turn around to see that it is not. It is the same for the wealth that nature offers us, often at our door.


Award of knowledge and discovery of the animal world

  Wild Russia, The Artic




Year completed: 2009


A film by: Ander Uwe
Produced by: NDR -

The Russian Arctic is the most representative in the Arctic regions of the planet, leading us to the tundra to the deserts of endless ice. In summer the cranes snow lay on the frozen ground, the elephant seals and beluga whales are ideal conditions to raise their young. Foxes snow trying to find as much food as possible to do the same while the polar bears gather on Wrangel Island to await the arrival of seals.

One thing is for sure in Arctic Russia, after the abundance of winter will be long and tough.


Award of knowledge of the relationship between man and animal

  Wild in Berlin




Year completed: 2009


A film by: Reinhard Schaedler
Produced by: Reinhard Schaedler

More and more cities in West Germany were conquered by big game and the people of Berlin have to get used to sharing their city foxes with 5000 and 8000 boars.

The invasion of the shadows of the night causes the emotion of the population, given the damage and traffic accidents, despite the large numbers of slaughter. R. Schädler has observed for two years and found the presence of numerous bands in the parks and motorway junctions. Opinions differ on solutions, complete slaughter or peaceful coexistence with these new neighbors.


Special Jury Award

  Sociable Weaver




Year completed: 2009


A film by: Amano Motohiro
Produced by: NHK -

In the arid region of Namibia, South Africa, there are strange trees the branches crowded by huge piles of dry grass. They are sociable weaver nests can weigh up to one ton, the largest nests in the world.

Each nest resembles a large apartment, with over one hundred holes underneath and accommodating about three hundred birds according Manoru Suzuki, a specialist in bird nests.

This program tells the story of these little birds full of energy.


Award for protection of animal species

  Secret of the King Cobra




Year completed: 2009


A film by: Andy Mitchell
Produced by: National Geographic TV

The Indian King Cobra is one of the most misunderstood creatures on the planet and feared. The development of the Indian population in the habitat of king cobra endangers the survival of the species.

A renowned specialist snakes implanted with two cobras devices to track them in the jungle. We'll attack their prey and even eat them.

Obviously they must actively seek refuge outside of human environments.


Audience Award

  Wild Russia, Kamchatka




Year completed: 2009


A film by: Christian Baumeister
Produced by: NDR -

Volcanic vents smoke beside glaciers and large snowdrifts along the boiling hot geysers.

Kamchatka soil is always in motion and nature as an artist dissatisfied, constantly destroyed and rebuilt his work. While the wolverine and fox are fighting for smaller prey, the majestic eagle Steller looking for a little fish in the few watering holes remain open

The white wagtail are near their nursery boiler, and brown bears swim in the warm. Kamchatka, land of fire and ice


Award of High School Students

  Epilogue d'un Conte




Year completed: 2009


A film by: Haesen Guido
Produced by: Haesen Guido

Since 1973, the man trying to protect and conserve wildlife around the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. But unfortunately the Biotope White Bear inexorably disappears.


Scientific Award

  Mini-monstres en Amazonie




Year completed: 2009


A film by: Kamel Kezadri
Produced by: Mona Lisa

By painting a fascinating array of species, despite the shadows and enigmas they contain, biologists, wittily unraveled much of the skein of life.

However, isolation and the difficulty of finding them make our knowledge about the biology of some species still very limited. It was so insects of the family treehopper New tropicaux.Des field observations helped to understand some of their behaviors.


Special Award for best picture

  Wild opera




Year completed: 2009


A film by: Laurent Frapat
Produced by: Laurent Frapat

Wild Opera invites us to follow the loop in music of the great migration of wildebeest and zebra from Tanzania to Kenya.

Born in the Serengeti, the smaller will soon have to learn to walk again to reach the green grasslands of Masai Mara, trying to avoid lions, cheetahs and other predators that they too need to feed their young.


Special Award for Best Screenplay

  Africa's Dragon Mountains




Year completed: 2009


A film by: Andrea Béatrice Lautmann
Produced by: ORF -

Crossing the ridge of jagged peaks of the mountains, a bearded vulture reaches an altitude of 3200 meters at the spectacular Drakensberg plateau.

Spring is a cold, but the green hills feast Elk herds of antelopes, while a troop of baboons gorge grass fraîche.L summer by bringing the heat causes the greatest rainfall.

The Drakensberg is the source of major rivers of South Africa, with snow melt, swelling streams and waterfalls and cliffs with rainbows.


Special Award for Best Sound

  Chameleon Beach




Year completed: 2009


A film by: Adam Schmedes
Produced by: Loke Film

The film shows two chameleons from a threatened population of three hundred people living in a lagoon Greek. The aim is to discover the life of the chameleon and show what has never been filmed before, as swimming the chameleon. But living on this beautiful Greek beach increasingly invaded by tourists is not without risks.

Natural enemies are snakes, birds, scorpions and also the climate with low temperatures in winter and sand storms. But the greatest danger is the man's encounter with the rats attracted by their garbage, 4x4 in the dunes, and even collectors of chameleons for sale.


Special Award for Best Editing

  Monkey Thieves




Year completed: 2009


A film by: Colin Collis
Produced by: Off The Fence

We meet the Gang Galt, a troop of rhesus macaques strong sixty individuals from advancing their temple and on the roofs of houses in a tangle of electrical cables in the streets of the pink city of Jaipur (India North West). The City looks like a playground for the young but the danger is never far away. An open window is an invitation to plunder and undisciplined band soon devastates a kitchen in the suburbs. The disaster ended they flee, and Kavi, a young monkey who climbs on top of a tower receives an electric shock and is left for dead.