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Awards 2014

Grand Prix

  La Chenille processionnaire du Pin




Duration: 43 min.
Year completed: 2012


A film by: Marc JAMPOLSKY
Produced by: ARTE France & ZED Productions

From the Mediterranean, the armyworm leaving today to conquer Europe. Under the influence of global warming, they progress annually to the North, giving inexorably new territories. A result of a steady increase 5 km per year, scientists believe they will reach Paris in 2025.

Amateur Award

  Nutsy, drôle d’oiseau




Duration: 24 min.
Year completed: 2013


A film by: Dominique DESBUREAUX
Produced by: Dominique DESBUREAUX

Here is the gradual development of a complicity between Dominique Desbureaux, the author of the film, and Nutsy the squirrel in his garden. All facets of life Nutsy, his mannerisms, his character traits and other antics are presented to us. This is probably one of the visitors to our gardens more friendly and engaging that is.

Award of knowledge and discovery of the animal world

  Mama Hyena




Duration: 52 min.
Year completed: 2013


A film by: Philippe Moreau
Produced by: FL Concepts & Co

Kenya, Masai Mara savanna. Kay Holekamp, an American biologist studying spotted hyenas there for 25 years. Their social organization is complex. Maasai pastoralists from the neighboring village of fear Talek hyenas, and respond to their attacks by laying traps and poisoned carcasses. Kay wants to know the territory Talek hyenas to find a solution to the conflict. It highlights the intelligence and adaptability of these large predators.

Award of knowledge of the relationship between man and animal

  Das Mittelmeer - Die letzten ihrer Art




Duration: 45 min.
Year completed: 2013


A film by: Florian Guthknecht
Produced by: Udo A. Zimmermann

Despite the impressive biodiversity of the Mediterranean, several species are seriously threatened. There are only a few hundred whales that can be seen around Gibraltar or the Greek islands. The small island Gyaros is itself a refuge for monk seals. On the island of Zakynthos, near Corfu, there is reproduction of loggerhead turtles threatened by mass tourism and pollution plastic ...

Special Jury Award

  Méditérranée, le royaume perdu des requins




Duration: 52 min.
Year completed: 2013


A film by: Stéphane GRANZOTTO & François SARANO
Produced by: Thierry BERROD - Mona Lisa Production

To rub shoulders with the big sharks, go to the end of the world. However, there is barely a century, the Mediterranean was the kingdom of sharks, blue sharks, porbeagle, hammerhead sharks and great white sharks abounded. This film takes us in search of a forgotten kingdom and reigned sharks.

ex aequo

  (Des)Illusions




Duration: 33 min.
Year completed: 2013


A film by: Romain Guénard
Produced by: Iffcam

This documentary deals with the relationship between the filmmaker, the image and wildlife. How far can you go with the animal as a filmmaker, to get a picture? The image ratio Does it change our relationship with the animal? Ethical questions posed to the animal, but also with the viewer.

Award for protection of animal species

  Ô Papillons




Duration: 43 min.
Year completed: 2013


A film by: Marie DANIEL & Fabien MAZZOCCO
Produced by: CEN Aquitaine en part. C Nature / Le Gobie

In an imaginary and ideal world, we certainly would put flowers and butterflies. But in our real world, butterflies are dying a little more each day, especially in wetlands, areas that have fallen sharply in the last century. Going to meet foresters and farmers still working in contact with these very special habitats, we gradually discover the ties that bind men butterflies.

Audience Award

  Une journée dans la savane




Duration: 51 min.
Year completed: 2013


A film by: Laurent Frapat
Produced by: One Planet, avec la participation de France Télévisions

Imagine a land where one intends to see before ... Open your eyes and ears! It is with these words that Frapat Lawrence, director, invites the viewer to discover the first images of the film. An exceptional documentary, quasi-experimental, a story stripped of the usual voiceover explains, analysis or decrypts, and the music that accompanies and enhances the emotion or curiosity. Striking images, but even more sounds, animal sounds, sounds of the savannah we hear so rarely. A kind of wild opera ...

Special Award for best picture

  Serengueti




Duration: 45 min.
Year completed: 2012


A film by: Reinhard Radke
Produced by: Doclights GmbH / NDR Naturfilm, Jörn Röver

In eastern Africa, the endless plains of the Serengeti is the site of the largest animal migration in the world. Each year, nearly 2 million wildebeest, antelopes, buffaloes, gazelles and zebras, in search of food and water, engage in a circular trek 1,000 km. At their heels, their natural predators, lions, leopards, cheetahs and hyenas. A struggle for survival, a grand spectacle.

Special Award for Best Screenplay

  Nature Wonder Land: mysterious circles in Japanese waters




Duration: 24 min.
Year completed: 2012


A film by: Akihiko Ida
Produced by: Tetsunori Kikuchi, Toshiyuki Tsuchiya

Off the Japanese island of Amami Oshima, divers discovered mysterious circles in the sand. Who or what were they formed? For what purpose? The efforts of a team of NHK have revealed the mystery.

Special Award for Best Sound

  Une journée dans la savane




Duration: 51 min.
Year completed: 2013


A film by: Laurent Frapat
Produced by: One Planet, avec la participation de France Télévisions

Imagine a land where one intends to see before ... Open your eyes and ears! It is with these words that Frapat Lawrence, director, invites the viewer to discover the first images of the film. An exceptional documentary, quasi-experimental, a story stripped of the usual voiceover explains, analysis or decrypts, and the music that accompanies and enhances the emotion or curiosity. Striking images, but even more sounds, animal sounds, sounds of the savannah we hear so rarely. A kind of wild opera ...

Special Award for Best Editing

  Secrets of the Eel




Duration: 52 min.
Year completed: 2013


A film by: Peter Franchella
Produced by: Red Line Films & Thirteen. Co-production: Terra Mater Factual Studios

The eel, a mystery ... with its fine and serpentine silhouette, with its strong jaws and rows of small sharp teeth, we know little about the life of this amazing fish. Where she goes, what she does, how she died, nobody knows. "Mermaid of the North Sea", "arrow of love on earth" praised by poets, this dark creature has fascinated researchers for centuries. James Prosek, artist, writer and eminent naturalist, interested in the mystery of eels, and sheds new light on the cultural history, biology and economics surrounding this creature, and the passions it inspires in those who seek to know ...