NEWS
The Salt of the South
( Tunisia / France )
What a crazy week at CPH:DOX International Festival of Copenhagen !!
After a warm welcome from the present audience for our pitch, we received the Unifrance / TITRAFILM Doc Award for THE SALT OF THE SOUTH, directed by Rami Jarboui and coproduced with PHI Films (Tunisia).
Many thanks to the jury for these strong words : “With a distinctive cinematic language, the project weaves an urgent climate story through the intimate journey of a family whose bond with the sea transcends borders, revealing the lasting impact of colonial structures. Rooted in a local struggle with global resonance, it powerfully captures resilience in the face of ecological collapse and forced migration. The Unifrance / Titra Film award goes to THE SALT OF THE SOUTH by Rami Jarboui.”
The Unifrance/Titrafilm Doc Award totaling at nearly €5,500 in benefits for the best French production or co-production presented at CPH:FORUM 2025 goes to THE SALT OF THE SOUTH, directed by Rami Jarboui and produced by Ramzi Laâmouri & Julien Coquet.
Forest Hana
at IDFAcademy
Junsung Kim’s feature documentary “Forest Hana” was selected at the IDFAcademy (Amsterdam International Festival) in November 2024.
Sunny Side of the Doc
Intensive week of pitching in La Rochelle. Thanks to Sunny Side of the Doc (The international marketplace and community for documentary) and La Région Occitanie / Pyrénées.
Equateur
broadcast on Arte
After several months of preparation, filming and editing, first broadcast on Arte on Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 15:45 for the film Ecuador, the campus of the forest, directed by Rafael Gutierrez Pereira in collaboration with Nicos Argillet.
Congratulations to the great team: Thierry Robert, Eymeric Missud, Marika Staub, Patricio Andrade. And thank you to all our partners, especially the scientists and the Universidad Ikiam team who have trusted us for 4 years to carry out this project.
Voice recording and mixing at Saraband PostProduction Studio in Montpellier with a top team!
Discover the lives of these cutting-edge scientists immersed in the heart of the Amazon rainforest who advance research on a daily basis.
A Backstory Media and ART
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.
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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