Name Denis Delestrac | Role Film director | |
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Full Name Denis G. Delestrac Born August 14, 1968 (age 56) ( 1968-08-14 ) France People also search for Jordi Llompart, Ibon Olaskoaga Movies Sand Wars, Banking Nature, Pax Americana and the, Mystery of the Nile | ||
Denis delestrac interviews louie psihoyos at the 5th dr environmental film festival
Denis Delestrac (born in France, 1968) is an award-winning film director. He is best known for creating feature documentaries on highly topical subjects, which have provoked public debate and gained large recognition internationally.
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- Denis delestrac interviews louie psihoyos at the 5th dr environmental film festival
- Lets talk about sand Denis Delestrac at TEDxBarcelona
- Career
- Journalist and author
- Awards
- Professional affiliations
- References
Let's talk about sand: Denis Delestrac at TEDxBarcelona
Career
Denis Delestrac made his debut in non-fiction filmmaking in 2001 and signed a dozen documentaries. Among his credits are IMAX blockbuster "Mystery of the Nile" and the award-winning "Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space". Selected in major international film festivals, the film reveals how space has become the newest arena for countries around the globe to launch their struggle for supremacy.
His feature documentary, “Sand Wars” is an epic eco-thriller that takes the audience around the globe to unveil a new gold rush and a disturbing fact: we are running out of sand. The film premiered at the legendary Cinéma Publicis on the Champs-Elysées in 2013 and was first broadcast in May in France and Germany (ARTE), where it became the highest rated documentary for 2013 with a 4.8 market share. “Sand Wars” has been selected in over 40 festivals and won 13 awards including a Gold Panda, the Greenpeace Prize and a Gemini Award, placing Delestrac as one of Europe’s most bankable non-fiction directors.
In “Banking Nature”, he looks at the growing movement to monetize the natural world, and to turn endangered species and threatened areas into instruments of profit. In the recent “Freightened”, Delestrac reveals the mechanics and perils of freight shipment; an all-but-visible industry that holds the key to our economy, our environment and the very model of our civilisation.
Delestrac resides in Barcelona and Paris.
Journalist and author
Denis Delestrac is a graduate from the Toulouse Law School and he obtained a Master in Journalism at the University of Dallas. He made his first steps in journalism in the United States, as a photojournalist - and later as a writer - covering the South Central LA riots (1992), the Waco siege (1993) and the 1992 presidential elections. In the last two decades, Delestrac has published in several North American and European publications like Le Monde. He's written books on architecture (with Pritzker Prize laureate Alvaro Siza) and geopolitics with longtime friend, MIT linguistics professor Noam Chomsky.
Awards
For "Sand Wars"
For "Banking Nature"
For "Freightened"