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Awards 2012

Grand Prix

FINLAND (WILD SCANDINAVIA series)

Duration: 52 min.
Year completed: 2011

A film by: Olivier Goetzl
Produced by: GULO FILM PRODUCTIONS for NDR Naturfilm Studio Hamburg Doclights

It looks like a mosaic of water and woodland ? FINLAND still is home to rare animals: This episode gives us numerous insights of the fascinating life of e.g. brown bears, wolves, wolverines, lynx, flying squirrels, goldeneye ducks or capercaillies and shows the whole beauty of the aurora borealis.

Amateur Award

Petit conte d'une prairie ordinaire

Duration: 5 min.
Year completed: 2010

A film by: Patrice Verrier
Produced by: Patrice Verrier

When a child imagines to uncover the secrets of his father and that the reality beyond all his dreams ...

Award of knowledge and discovery of the animal world

Bonobos

Duration: 52 min.
Year completed: 2011

A film by: Alain Tixier
Produced by: MC4 / Jean-Pierre Bailly

In 2002, Claudine André created south of Kinshasa a single reserve dedicated to the preservation and study of bonobos. A paradise whose purpose is the return of bonobos in the wild. Bonobos mixes documentary and fiction, in the sanctuary.

Award of knowledge of the relationship between man and animal

The woman who swims with killer whales

Duration: 59 min.
Year completed: 2011

A film by: Mark Woodward
Produced by: Mark Woodward

A revelatory film following the remarkable work of Ingrid Visser. The only scientist in the world to swim with wild Killer Whales.

Special Jury Award

Survivre, Animaux des Alpes en hiver

Duration: 26 min.
Year completed: 2011

A film by: Anne et Erik Lapied
Produced by: Les Editions de la Salamandre

What the nature chamois, hares, ptarmigan and goats so that they can withstand the winter cold, snow and blizzard. From these animals when they go perfectly suited for life to survive?

Award for protection of animal species

Des Gypaetes et des Hommes

Duration: 52 min.
Year completed: 2011

A film by: Mathieu Le Lay
Produced by: Thierry Berrod

With the mythical bird of the Alps, the bearded vulture. More than 30 years after the launch of the reintroduction program of vulture in the Alps, the man continued his efforts to conserve this iconic species. With the cooperation of alpine parks and respect of users now acquired the massif, the firebird gradually regains its lost territories. Every birth is an additional chance of survival for this fragile and endangered vulture. We leave to the discovery and follow his adventures with men.

Audience Award

Sittelle est mon plaisir

Duration: 13 min.
Year completed: 2011

A film by: Dominique Desbureaux
Produced by: Dominique Desbureaux

Meeting and development of a complicity between a birder and nuthatches torch pot.

Award of High School Students

Un étang en forêt

Duration: 15 min.
Year completed: 2011

A film by: Patrice Verrier
Produced by: Patrice Verrier

The wet areas are essential to the preservation of species, if he is not too disturbed, a pond in the middle of a forest is a haven of peace that allows the observation of many species ...

Scientific Award

Amazon Alive 1 - Jungle of the Mind

Duration: 45 min.
Year completed: 2011

A film by: Christian Baumeister
Produced by: Jörn Röver

The Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest in the world. Its biological diversity is unrivalled, yet it has taken centuries to find out why. This is the story of how we have struggled to make sense of the enormity and complexity of the Amazon rainforest.

Special Award for best picture

Cerf moi fort

Duration: 54 min.
Year completed: 2011

A film by: Jean-Paul Grossin
Produced by: 100 C Production

The desire of the slab is longer than the slab.
If full-day rut to live in the enthusiasm, the beginning and end of the first slab is tinged with envy and longing.