Director and Cinematographer of over 15 films that have earned 23 International Awards.
Beneficiary of the CNC Avance sur recette 2021.
CINEMA
- Second unit Director and Cinematographer of Snowboarder 90’ fiction directed by Olias Barco, I realized over 100 shoots of the film starring Grégoire Colin and Nicolas Duvauchelle (Nord Ouest/Studio Canal 2002)
- Blood and Mud cinema documentary about a Coltan mining village in Congo RDC (Valdès, Palas films, Arte Cinema, Wild Bunch postproduction in progress)
Film supported by the CNC Avance sur recette for its production and distribution in the French cinemas.
FRANCE 2
-Une place dans la République 54' documentary telling 13 years in the life of 2 young drug addicted. (Lapsus 2006)
Award : Étoile de la SCAM 2008
-Under The Stones of Gaza 52' about the difficult work of the archaeologists trying to save the extraordinary legacy of past civilisations in Gaza strip.
TSR, RTBF, TVOntario, SBS Australia (Gedeon Programmes 2005)
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL
-Lovers on The Ice 52' film telling the 58 days expedition to the North Pole I achieved with my wife Bettina Aller (Freeport, TV2 Denmark 2004)
Awards : Dijon, Montreal and Ecollywood
-A woman in Antarctica 52' about a female solo expedition in Antarctica (Gedeon Programmes 2000)
-Second unit director and cinematographer on Waking The Baby Mammoth 90′ directed by Pierre Stine about a perfectly preserved baby mammoth body found in the Siberian permafrost. France 2 coproduction (Woollyworks Inc 2009)
DISCOVERY CHANNEL
-99 Days on The Ice 52' documentary about the crossing of the Polar Sea expedition my wife Bettina Aller and I did. TV2 and Voyage (Nonsense Production, Freeport films, Sombrero&Co 2006)
Awards : Dijon, Montréal, La Rochelle, Ecollywood, selected in the Bannf world tour
CANAL +
-Alone in Antarctica 58' documentary about Laurence de la Ferrière’s Antarctica crossing. Co produced by La Cinquième and Rai (Gedeon 2000)
-Skibums 26' documentary about the ski-bums way of life in a small village of the French Alps. Broadcast in Spain, Switzerland, Finland, Belgium, on Planète and Canal Horizon (Les films du village 1996)
Award : Lilles
ARTE
-Tout là-haut 26' documentary about the physical and psychological effects of very high altitude climbing written together with Laurent Chevallier. Broadcast by France 3 and Planète. Selected in Banff (Les films d’ici 1997)
Awards : Trento and Puy Saint Vincent
TSR
-Place de la République 52' about a year in the life of two drugs addicted friends living in the streets of Paris. Broadcasted in Switzerland, Norway, Canada (MBP, Les Films du Village 1995)
Presented at the Cinémathèque Française in Mai 2002
FRANCE 3
-Sous les glaces du Groenland 55' about the first underwater exploration in the Arctic below 100m (Docside 2015)
Awards : 2 in La Rochelle, Autrans, Belgrade, Explos
FRANCE 5
-The Land of The Djinns 52' documentary about the desert traverse accomplished by Régis Belleville and Taha Bouessif between Chinguetti and Timbuktu. Voyage, RTBF, TV5 and TSR (Gedeon 2002)
Awards : 2 awards in Dijon, Valauris, La Rochelle and Montreal
-A village in Antarctica 52' documentary directed by myself about the life and the scientific studies in the polar base of Dome C. Rai, Planete, Arte (Gedeon Programmes 2000) RAI
-Everest Eyes Wide Open 26' directed about a young snowboarder who discovers the Tibet occupied by the Chinese and the Everest occupied by tourists and dollars (Sombrero 1999)
Awards : Bailly and Lille
DR1
-Inside the Volcanoes 52' about 2 active lava lakes in Africa (No Penguins, Sombrero &Co 2010)
-The track to the Stone Age 52' about the meeting with an un-contacted tribe hidden in the jungle of West Papoua. Co-produced by Voyage, broadcast on France 5 (Sombrero&Co/No Penguins 2010)
MUSIC VIDEO
-Tom’s Wild Years from Hasse Paulsen (Music Box, Sombrero&Co 2020)
MUSEUM INSTALATIONS
-Visit EGRIP a VR360 virtual visit of the Greenlandic scientific station EGRIP produced for the Illulisat Greenland Visitor Center (Nonsense Production 2020).
-EGRIP The Ice Core Station a 10’ museum documentary produced for the Greenland Visitor Center (Nonsense Production 2020)
