Occupation Film director, writer | Movies Tomorrow | |
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Born 23 July 1978 (age 38) ( 1978-07-23 ) Poissy, France Awards César Award for Best Documentary Similar Mélanie Laurent, Pierre Rabhi, Bruno Levy, Fredrika Stahl, Rob Hopkins | ||
Film director cyril dion on tomorrow s solutions and the sustainable development goals
Cyril Dion (born 23 July 1978) is a French writer, film director, poet, and activist.
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Life and career
After studying at the École d'art dramatique Jean-Périmony (drama school) and a very brief career as an actor, Cyril Dion coordinated projects for the 'Fondation Hommes de Parole'. He organized an israelo-palestinian congress at Caux in 2003, 2005 and 2006, and the first and second world Congress of Imams and Rabbis for peace in Brussels and Sevilla
In 2007, he founded with Pierre Rabhi and a few friends, the ecological movement Hummingbird [Colibris)]. He was director until July 2013 an is now the spokesperson and member of the steering comity.
In 2010, he was advisor and co-producer with Colibris of the movie: Think global act Local by Coline Serreau.
In 2012, he co-founded Kaizen magazine, and was editor in chief from March 2012 to April 20145. He is also Editor in Chief of the Domaine du Possible (The field of possibilities) collection at Actes Sud [Actes Sud)] with Jean-Paul Capitani.
Since he was 17, he writes poetry and in 2014 published a collection of poems (Sitting on the edge) Assis sur le fil, Table Ronde Editions
He wrote and co-produced with Mélanie Laurent the documentary film Tomorrow, released in movie theaters in France on 2 December 2015; as well as two books with the Actes Sud Editor.
Tomorrow won the Cesar award for Best Documentary (Oscar equivalent in France) in 2016 and over one million people went to see it in movie theatres in France. It is now released in over 30 countries.
In september 2016, he was President of the jury of the documentary movie in Festival Biarritz Amérique latine. In october he was the Godfather of festival Atmosphère with the french singer Camille and the FIFF Campus in Namur.