Frédéric Dieudonné
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Frédéric Dieudonné is a writer, filmmaker, producer and film historian, born in Paris, France, September 21, 1969.
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After earning a master's degree in literature from the prestigious Sorbonne Sorbonne of Paris in 1991, Frédéric Dieudonné co-founded the non -profit Jules Verne Adventures [1] with Jean-Christophe Jeauffre [2]. Dedicated to exploration, filmmaking and education the organization is based in Paris at the Prince Albert I of Monaco Foundation [3].
In 1992, Dieudonné and Jeauffre launched the annual Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival. It was inaugurated by Jacques Cousteau Jacques Cousteau and together they developed a production unit to create new adventure & exploration programs for television.
The Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival is now the most important adventure & discovery film festival in the world; it is held in Le Grand Rex Le Grand Rex, the largest theatre in Europe each April and attracts more than 48,000 attendees during the six day event.
Dieudonné’s passion for exploration and nature as a journalist led him to become feature editor at Science & Nature magazine. Dieudonné has traveled to Brazil, Africa, Malta, and Scotland as an environment and ethnology reporter-photographer.
In 1998, he launched a new magazine as editor-in-chief, “L’Autre Voyage”, which presents new concepts in environmentally-friendly travel around the world.
He has been a member of prestigious French Explorers Club since 1999.
From 1999 to 2006, Dieudonné co-produced several films for TV which included Devil’s Islands – Journey into Jungle Alcatraz, Red and White – Searching for the Lost West. A five-month expedition on the Atlantic aboard the tall ship Belem led to his production of the highly acclaimed documentaries: 100 Years Under the Seas – Shipwrecks of the Caribbean, Amazon Trek – In Search of Vanishing Secrets, Whales of Atlantis – In Search of Moby-Dick, Five Weeks On The Sea – the Jules Verne Expedition, and Tall Ship of the 3rd Millennium. Two fully illustrated books were also published after the expedition.
In 2006 he wrote and directed the TV documentary Explorers – From the Titanic to the Moon. [4], starring producer/director James Cameron and veteran astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
All of the aforementioned films are now being distributed in the US on DVD with narrations by well-known actors Sir Christopher Lee (Lord Of The Rings, Star Wars II & III) and Academy Award-winner Ernest Borgnine (From Here to Eternity, The Wild Bunch). As a writer, Frédéric Dieudonné has also been collaborating with French publisher Le Cherche Midi (from Editis Group) for four years. Among his many responsibilities, he is developing biographies from the memoirs of accomplished artists and actors as the subjects’ personal literary advisor.
In 2005 Dieudonné co-founded the American version of the French non-profit Jules Verne Adventures. It is based in Los Angeles at the Shrine Auditorium Shrine Auditorium and maintains an IRS 501(c)(3) status. The inaugural American version of the Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival, celebrated the work of George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Jane Goodall, James Cameron, and Buzz Aldrin before 6,300 attendees in late 2006.
Dieudonné is now preparing the second edition of this worldwide film festival to be presented in California every year in December.
