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IMZ x Sunny side of the doc
pitching session
Backstory media winner in Berlin of the arts and culture pitching session organized by IMZ International Music + Media Centre x Sunny Side of the Doc during the event “Avant Première Music + Media Market Berlin 2024” in front of jurors Anna Ferens, Erkko Lyytinen, Francesca Nesler, Karine Papazian, Patrick Mao Huang, Marion Camus Oberdorfer and Jean-Jacques Peretti.
Dancing with the Gods
Dancing with the Gods (110′), directed by Luyao Zhang.
5 years of shooting, 400 hours of footage, more than 16 weeks of timelines preparation, a long journey for our director, main character and production team. Let’s reveal the main narrative now: the edition process !
Edited with our partner Avid in Backstory Media Studio, Pôle PIXEL.
Produced by Backstory Media (France) with the support of France Télévisions, Pango Pictures (China). Executive Producers Julien Coquet, Tianzhu Zhang. Associated producer Mingzhu Yi. DOP Wu Kang. Chief-editor Cécile Staes-Lacommère. Original music Florence Caillon.
Featuring talented dancers of Ying Dance Theatre.
Final stretch for the film ECUADOR
Final stretch for the film ECUADOR, A LABORATORY IN THE HEART OF THE RAINFOREST, directed by talented Rafael Gutierrez Pereira and Nicos Argillet.
A Backstory.media / ARTE France coproduction with the participation of CNC, La Région Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée, Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Procirep – Société des Producteurs and the support of Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam / Ministerio del Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica (Ecuador).
Shooting in Ecuador for the film IKIAM
Currently shooting in Ecuador for the film “IKIAM, a laboratory in the heart of the Amazon”, by Nicos Argillet and Rafael Gutierrez Pereira, produced by Julien Coquet for Backstory Media in coproduction with Arte France.
Logline : In Ecuador, IKIAM (“forest” in Shuar) is a unique research centre located in the middle of the Amazonian forest. Here, scientists and local populations are inspired by nature to find solutions to global problems: pollution, water treatment, medicine of the future… Together, they establish new outposts in the jungle in search of priceless scientific treasures.
Stay tuned…
Awards for the Trash Cemetery film
TRASH CEMETERY directed by Firas Rebiai won the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival Blue Ice Docs Grant, the DOK.fest München award and the MiradasDoc award on Durban FilmMart SA 2022. The project is developed within EURODOC22 by Firas Rebiai (Nap, Tunisia) and coproduced by Julien Coquet (Backstory Media, France) and just received the support of the CNC – Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (France) – @CNCI (Tunisia) Franco-tunisian coproduction Fund. We couldn’t be happier for this great news !
Filming in progress in Senegal for the documentary series Yiconomy
Directed by Zhang Nan.
Decoding The Global Trade Power Rising From Yiwu. (6x45mins | 4K | Discovery Channel)
A co-production by Pango Pictures (China) & Backstory Media (France).
Filming in progress in China for The Premiere
Directed by Luyao Zhang.
Ying comes from a fishing village on a small island in southern China. He was never a good student at school. Most of the people in his “gang” in the village grew up as labourers or fishermen. It’s a place where no one cares what modern dance is. However, for Ying, from the day he learned to dance, it became his only goal: to become a contemporary dancer. Dance then becomes a means of social emancipation for Ying, leaving the old way of life of his family to live his dream in Beijing, and prepare his big return to the village to organize one day his big “Premiere”.
A co-production by Pango Pictures (China) & Backstory Media (France).
International Scientific Symposium on Polar Warming
We are present at the International Scientific Symposium on Polar Warming, organized by the Prince Albert II Foundation of Monaco, as part of our impact documentary «Antarctica, the cold hard truth», directed by Pascal Guérin!
This Polar Symposium will bring together internationally renowned experts and scientists to address issues related to how and how quickly changes in the polar regions of our planet affect the climate, living and social systems, and how it concerns all of us.
The event aims to inform on management, policies and collective action in the clusters and to feed processes at international and regional levels. It will serve as a historical dialogue reaffirming the role of science in decision-making and revisiting the critical role of the cryosphere in the context of climate change.
The symposium is co-organized by the Prince Albert II Foundation of Monaco, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), and the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), in collaboration with the Oceanographic Institute of Monaco, Prince Albert I Foundation, the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI) and the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.
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