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ADVENTURE COLLECTION
ADVENTURERS IN UNKNOWN LANDS
The directors
A mountain guide father, a ski instructor mother and former refuge warden, a paragliding instructor older brother, Sam grew up at the foot of Mont Blanc. In 1994, he joined the Compagnie des guides de Chamonix. Pitons, crampons, ice axes, wingsuit, paraglider, snowkite, ski, snowboard, paraglider… the hardest thing for him is to find a bag big enough to fit all his toys in! Sam is a jack-of-all-trades mountaineer with a "fight" option: first descent on skis from the Shroud to the Grandes Jorasses (1995) with Jérôme Ruby on a snowboard, opening in the Himalayas of Extra blue sky at Kwangde Shar (1995), 700 jumps in base-jump to his credit since 1994, attempt to descend the North face of Everest by snowboard (1998), opening of the Azazel route with the Planète Big Wall team and first wingsuit jump from the Pulpit de Trango (2005 )… Québec Givré (co-directed with Erwan Le Lann) and Baffin, l'île aux enfants give the mountain a real facelift, the antithesis of the Shakespearean scenarios that often stick to the wall.
Sam Beaugey
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Born in 1980 in Saint Hilaire du Touvet, Antoine Boisselier is one of the young directors that Seven Doc has accompanied since their first films. An international-level hang-glider pilot from 1999 to 2009, he began a gentle transition in 2005 by following the Cinédoc training course for the production of creative documentaries. In 2004, he embarked with Guillaume Broust and Bruno Bourdat on the adventure of docu-fiction with Flying babouches, a delirious fiction filmed in Morocco and awarded at numerous film festivals (Icares du Cinéma, Imagin'air, Santander, Payerne, Auron, etc.). In 2006, he made a short film Speed Riding, attack at Powpow Land with Seven Doc. Normally put away from competitions (he happens to do it again: champion of the federal hang-gliding cup in 2010), he co-directs, with Christophe Tong-Viet and Nicolas Assaël, Le Nid, a 52-minute docu-fiction telling the story of the life and the prowess of rare birds that nest on the side of the cliff, in Saint Hilaire du Touvet, the Mecca of free flight.
Antoine Boisselier
Guillaume Broust
Born in 1980 in the Paris region, Guillaume Broust landed at the age of 12 in Saint Hilaire du Touvet. Just in time to catch up with his classmates in skiing, climbing or paragliding... His diploma from the Beaux Arts de Marseille in the pocket, he left to follow a training course in Annecy in collaboration with the Gobelins School, where he trained in the multimedia professions on a work-study basis. His school is therefore new technologies: the HI-8, the mini DV. A world where you often work alone, in your garage, where the director is both cameraman, editor, sound engineer, musician and producer...
In 2004, however, after a paragliding trip rich in twists and turns in Morocco, he found the time to co-direct Flying Babouches with Antoine Boisselier and Bruno Bourdat.
Gilles Chappaz
Child of the mountains having grown up facing Mont Blanc, Gilles now sails between Grenoble and Chamonix. He turned to journalism by creating and developing magazines dedicated to the mountains (Montagnes Magazine, Vertical, Ski Français). At the same time, he was a consultant for television (France Television, TF1) and collaborated regularly with the press (Liberation, Le Monde). He was also part of the team that animated the magazine Montagne on FR3 from its creation in 1985, a magazine for which he was for a time the publishing manager and for which he made several documentaries, all of which received awards at festivals. After spending four years in Paris as deputy editor-in-chief of L'Équipe Magazine, he devoted himself to making documentary films, five of which were produced by Seven Doc. In 2009, he added to his director's hat that of director ofMountain Collection, book + DVD sets dedicated to those we are used to calling the "conquerors of the useless" launched in 2009 byseven-doc.
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He is one of those birds capable of making a camera climb the most committed routes, to frame the images of his films himself. Bertrand lives and works inPassy, on the Mont Blanc road. In 1994, he took off from the valley to pursue higher studies in composite materials engineering in Chambéry to combine his passion for technology with that of the mountains. But his attraction for the image ends up prevailing. Now a director and cameraman, he began with sliding images, on water and snow and is one of the young directors that Seven Doc has accompanied from their beginnings. Emeritus mountaineer, his knowledge allowed him to share with his friend and climbing partnerMarco Siffredi (first snowboarder to descend Everest via the Norton corridor in the spring of 2001) many steep descents in the Alps and Himalayas. His knowledge in engineering allowed him to be at the origin of the first website to broadcast mountain videos. The very high level of performance is omnipresent in his films, but it remains a way to underline the beauty of the mountain and the intensity of a rope story.
Bertrand Delapierre
Veronica has traveled to South America, Central America, Asia, and Africa as a dive instructor, translator, and also worked with dolphins. Her career in broadcasting began in 1998 with The Blue Odyssey, a documentary about an attempt to free a captive dolphin. This experience was followed with a stint at TSR as an image reporter and director, then editor, producer and cameraman in Switzerland. At TSR, she collaborated, in 2001, to the production of the documentary series Secours en Montagne and co-directed, in 2003, the series Profession Guide de Montagne. She then directed and produced "Spitzberg, sur un pied d'égalité" produced by Seven Doc, Haïti Mon Peyi and was assistant director on the film Dakini, le féminin de la sagesse by Véronique Jannot. With dual Swiss and American citizenship, Veronica currently divides her time between Europe and the United States where she has just completed a short fiction film that will be presented at the Sundance Festival (USA) and the Berlin International Film Festival. Director, producer and editor for various American productions, she is also studying film at the University of San Francisco.
Veronica Duport
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Didier Hill-Derive was born in 1971 in Belgium. In 1989, he entered INSAS (National Institute of Performing Arts) in Brussels, Image section. During these 3 years of training, he acquired the basics of shooting (cinema and television). He was seduced by documentary reporting, a favorite field which has guided his activities as an operator since 1993. In January 1996, he adopted freelance status, putting his experience as a cameraman to work for weekly or monthly television broadcasts. The program Strip-Tease, for which he filmed more than 80 subjects, enabled him to extend his activities as an operator to the filming of numerous documentaries produced in France. From 1996, he made his own films. Seduced by the misunderstood chapteru of the removal of bells in Belgium during the occupation, he made his first documentary in 1996: Sauveurs de Cloches (1996). Ten years later, he finalized with Seven Doc Men on the Mountain, a 53-minute film retracing a century of passion for the profession of high mountain guide.
Didier Hill-Derive
Denis Steinberg
After spending nearly fifteen years as an editor at France 3, and in particular at Montagne magazine, he participated in the creation of the first digital post-production room during the Winter Olympics in Albertville in 1992, of which he was responsible until 1997. On this occasion, he collaborated on numerous films either as editor or director. In July 1997, he created the MedeO company with his partner Frédérique Steinberg, of which he produced the majority of productions: documentaries, corporate or community films. In 2006, he was brought to work withGilles Chappazon the documentaryJean-Marc Boivin, extremely yourswhich he edits. Three years later, he climbed La Voie Terray. Then he took on the role of director, in tandem with Gilles Chappaz, on Le monde de Gaston and As long as there are Gruss.
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High mountain guide, Erwan has participated in many films in front of and behind the camera. After a few years of practicing mountaineering at a high level, he quickly realized that all the clichés he heard about the mountains did not correspond at all to what he was experiencing with his climbing companions. He therefore decided to buy a camera to show those around him the joyful atmosphere, the pleasure, the sincerity and the intensity of his climbing stories. After his "mountaineering vacation" films, he embarked on his first "real film" in 2001 with Douceur d'été en Patagonie, a film which recounts his winter ascent of the Fitz Roy Super-Couloir (a mixed route for Viking mountaineers), with Jérôme Blanc-Gras and Max Berger in the footsteps of Lionel Terray and Guido Magnone... Erwan is a calm and thoughtful person, so it was four years later that he took the step in 2005 to a "real, real director's film": Frosty Quebec.
Erwann Le Lann
Born in 1949 under the sign of Sagittarius, Fabrice Maze lives and works in Paris. After studying at the EFAP, obtaining a degree in Letters and graduating from the Center de Formation des Journalistes in 1973, he made surrealist-inspired short films and was approved as a television director in 1978. He then made his first documentary on the surrealist painter Yves Tanguy and devoted himself until 1999 to his career as a television director. Eclectic, he produces more than 150 hours of programs in the scientific, literary, social and musical fields. He participated in numerous programs on TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3, including Temps X, Ask for the moon and Objectif Tintin. He also directs docudramas as well as the Cultural Clips series with Gonzague Saint Bris. In 1991, Canal + commissioned a documentary from him on the Quai André Citroën head office: Canal + sur Seine. Since 1999, he has devoted himself exclusively as a writer-director to documentaries by developing three themes: the history of the automobile, spirituality and the history of art (including the history of surrealism), documentaries developed and produced by Seven Doc.
Fabrice Maze
