Who Was the Real Neanderthal?
Neanderthals – our distant cousins from 400,000 years ago – have long been thought of as brutish and dim-witted. In today’s culture, to be called a Neanderthal is the ultimate insult. But it’s been impossible to truly grasp who they were and how they lived… until now. New archeological discoveries, combined with the latest scientific techniques, are bringing us one step closer to Neanderthals… and revealing that they were much closer to us than we ever imagined! This awe-inspiring journey follows experts as they uncover the Real Neanderthal. They find that Neanderthals were social and caring. They were primitive artists – capable of abstract thought – and perhaps the inventors of the earliest-ever form of graphic communication. They also had advanced medical knowledge, remarkable tools and hunting techniques, and an astonishing mastery of fire!
BROADCASTERS
TEAM
Producers
Josette D. Normandeau, André Barro, Amy Webb
Scriptwriters
Caroline Bacle & Pascale Bilodeau
Director
Yanick Rose
Creative Producer
Caroline Bacle
Composer
Frédérick Weber
Genre
Documentary – Science
Format
1 x 49’
Languages
English, French
Shooting Format
4K
Delivery
HDCAM SR, 4K
Copyright 2020
Apocalypse Never-Ending War
(1918-1926)
November 11, 1918. The world emerges from the most horrific conflict ever known. While leaders of the victorious countries design a new world order, traumatized societies struggle to find their footing. In the aftermath of war, the Russian, German, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires fall apart, currencies fluctuate wildly, and vast numbers of refugees flee misery. Before long, age-old hatreds fears and resentments resurface and drive the world to the brink of a new Apocalypse.
Co-production
France (CC&C) / Canada (Ideacom International)
EPISODES (2 x 45')
EPISODE 1
November 11, 1918. The First World War is over. Survivors greet the end of hostilities with wild celebrations. But in central Europe, in Germany, Russia, and Hungary, the Communist revolution threatens to sweep all before it. At the Palace of Versailles, the victors draw up the terms of the peace treaty. Traumatized by battle and the scourge of the Spanish flu, demobilized soldiers return home to the four corners of a war-shattered world.
EPISODE 2
Filled with veterans, invalids, widows, orphans, exiles, and deportees, nations try to rebuild. But they are still grieving the thousands of unknown soldiers buried in the mud of the battlefields. Ill-tended wounds fester. Populist movements spring up, determined to impose their totalitarian ideology. As western nations try to shake off memories of the war to the frantic beat of the Charleston, rising nationalism propels the world towards a new Apocalypse.
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
Awards
Club AudioVisuel de Paris
– Laurier Documentaires 2018
Official Selection
Banff World Media Festival 2019 – Rockie Awards 2019
– History & Biography Program
Broadcasters
The Team
Producers
Louis Vaudeville, Pascale Ysebaert (France)
Josette D. Normandeau, Amy Webb (Canada)
Scriptwriter
Daniel Costelle
Directors
Isabelle Clarke, avec la collaboration de Mickaël Gamrasni
Narrator
François Arnaud
Composer
Christian Clermont
Category
Documentary – History
Format
Mini-series (2 x 45’ and 1 x 90’)
Website & Apps
apocalypseofficiel.com
Languages
English, French
Shooting Format
100% archives
Delivery
HDCAM SR
Copyright 2018
Human+ The Future of Our Senses
HUMAN+ The Future of Our Senses brings viewers into the enigmatic world of scientists, researchers, and entrepreneurs who are revolutionizing the way people see, touch, taste, hear, and smell. Each episode delves into the awe-inspiring and emotional stories of people whose lives are being transformed through some of the most cutting-edge advances in technology of the five senses: touch, sight, hearing, taste and smell.
Co-production
France (Bonne Pioche) / Canada (Ideacom International)
EPISODES
EPISODE 1 : TOUCH
The sense of touch is an invisible force of human nature. Not only does it perceive tiny elements that our eyes can’t see, but it plays a vital role in our lives. It has an important influence on our physical capacity, our cerebral functioning, and our well-being. Without it, we’d be completely lost. Today, touch is undergoing a revolution. Science has pushed the limits of nature thanks to technological touch. It is now possible to touch objects virtually that are invisible or located thousands of kilometres away. A simple movement in the air is enough to control them. Medical technology has even succeeded in giving a sense of touch to bionic limbs made of metal, plastic, wires, and processors. Slowly but surely, prostheses are starting to perform better than natural limbs. Ten years ago, who could have imagined that science would have advanced so quickly? Virtual touch will, soon be part of our daily lives. How far will this revolution take us?
EPISODE 2 : SIGHT
The science of sight has entered a new era. We are starting to understand how a few rare individuals can see better or see faster. We meet a woman who can see a hundred more colors than the average human being, and a heavyweight boxer who undergoes sophisticated training to increase the speed of his visual reflexes and acuity. Becoming superhuman, these individuals are examples of what we all may aspire to. As silicon and carbon meld and point the way to our bionic future, we discover how technology is starting to replace or enhance vision for those who have lost it. We witness the moment when a husband and father, equipped with an experimental retinal implant, sees his wife and child for the first time. We meet a young student who can “see” with his tongue. And we find how connectivity and miniaturization can give all blind people the gift of seeing through another person’s eyes.
EPISODE 3 : HEARING
As the mysteries of hearing are revealed, we see how technology and scientific progress are working to restore, replace, or supercharge this enormously powerful human sense. We meet a young man who shows us the potential of musical hearing and a blind man whose hearing is so acute that he can navigate a bicycle by the sound of the echo of a click. As technology starts to merge with humanity, we meet true bionic pioneers: the recipients of cochlear implants who demonstrate how the brain can learn to interpret a new synthetic sense. We discover hearing aids that surpass the ear’s natural acoustic abilities and even read the brain’s intentions. There are researchers working to use sound to improve cognition and memory while we sleep. And we learn how one company is developing an innovative, effective technology that uses the skin as a conduit to pass sound to the brain.
EPISODE 4 : TASTE AND SMELL
Smelling is as natural as breathing. Sixteen times a minute, you breathe the air that passes through your nose to fill your lungs. Billions of molecules passing through your nasal cavities are captured by the cells of your olfactory organ. Your sense of smell is much more developed than you might imagine. In your genetic code, 400 genes make up the receptors of your sense of smell. You are able to smell billions of odors. Yes, your nose is capable of astonishing exploits! Scientists and others are presently working in the realms of taste and smell to understand their powers. They are bringing to light the mystery that, from conception to adulthood, reveals a fabulous potential. Tomorrow, your nose will help you uncover disease, vanquish pain, lower your stress level, improve your social life, make you feel safe, learn and improve your well-being. All these incredible powers will be in your hands: all you have to do is discover them!
EPISODE 5 : ORCHESTRA OF THE SENSES
Sight, touch, hearing, taste, and smell send sensory messages to the brain at a speed of 430km/hr. The two cerebral hemispheres deal with 11 million information signals per second – an imperceptible and continual effort. This continual flow of information is sorted and analyzed by the brain, which directs the senses, organizes them, and improves them without any technological intervention. The brain’s plasticity, which we are only beginning to understand allows it to continually adapt. If you lose one sense, the brain re-organizes and compensates by increasing the power of the other senses. Like an extraordinary talented blind artist who is able to use his fingers to feel the color of the paint before applying it to the canvas. Occasionally, the brain decides to do things differently and orchestrates the senses in an original way, as in the case of synesthetes, who are able to make an association between two senses or more at a time. There are even those able to physically experience the pain of others.
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
Awards
Deauville Green Awards – Trophée Or 2019
– Handicap, Diversity, Solidarity Category
Broadcasters
The Team
Producers
Josette D. Normandeau, Amy Webb, André Barro (Canada)
Emmanuel Priou, Nicolas Cennac (France)
Scriptwriters
Duncan McDowall, Vincent Barthélémy, Yann Renoard, Leo Singer, Thomas Cirotteau
Directors
Vincent Barthélémy, Leo Singer, Thomas Cirotteau
Composer
Stéphane Lopez
Category
Documentary – Science
Format
Mini-series (5 x 52’)
Website & Social Media
humanplus.ca
Languages
English, French
Delivery
HDCAM SR
Copyright 2019
Lady Sapiens
Who were prehistoric women? What did they look like? What was their daily life like? What was the division of labour between men and women?
Cave art and hunting for men, gathering and household work for women? What if reality was more complex?
The film questions this anthropological and ethnographic model, a stereotype now being disputed by the scientific community…Today, a new generation of researchers, many of them women, is shaking up this model. These scientists are questioning museum collections, setting up revolutionary protocols for analysis, and defining new excavation methods to finally make the invisible visible. Thanks to their relentlessness, the presence of prehistoric women is emerging. Leaning on a round-the-world tour of the most recent scientific discoveries, the film will take the viewer inside geneticists’ laboratories, to excavation sites, into the reserves of research centers…
Coproduction
France (Little Big Story) / Canada (Idéacom international)
Distribution
France Televisions Distribution
broadcasters
team
Producers
Josette D. NORMANDEAU, André BARRO (Canada)
Sophie PARRAULT, Valérie MONTMARTIN (France)
Scriptwriters
Thomas CIROTTEAU, Éric PINCAS, Jacques MALATERRE
Directors
Thomas CIROTTEAU
Director of Photography
Alfonso MAIORANA, Julien BLIN
Composer
Claudie BERTOUNESQUE
Animated images
Far Cry Primal (Far Cry TM – Ubisoft Entertainment)
Genre
Documentary – Historic
Format
1 x 52’ & 1 x 90′
Languages
English & French
Support
4K, UHD, HD
Copyright 2021
Next Broadcast
March 8 – TVO (English Version)
Also available on their Youtube Channel and their website
March 8 – ICI Explora (French Version)
THE REAL WAR OF THRONES
The fourth season is focusing on one of the most iconic kings in French history: Louis XIV. With a 70-year long reign which started in blood during the rebellion known as “la Fronde”, Louis XIV turned France into the most powerful country in Europe while also expanding its territories in America and Canada. But while the king’s power surged, he also became the most hated monarch in Europe facing rivalries with William of Orange in England, as well as enemies in Sweden, Holland, the Holy Roman Empire and Spain.
Co-production
France (Pernel Media) / Canada (Idéacom international)
EPISODE
EPISODE 1: LOUIS XIV – CHILDHOOD IN THE SUN (1643-1654)
EPISODE 2: MAZARIN, PUPPET MASTER OF FRANCE (1654-1661)
EPISODE 3: LOUIS XIV – ABSOLUTE MONARCH, INFINITE POWER (1661-1669)
EPISODE 4: PHILIPPE D’ORLEANS, INTRIGUE AND STRATEGIC ALLIANCES (1669-1679)
EPISODE 5: LOUIS XIV, ONE KING, ONE LAW, ONE FAITH (1680-1689)
EPISODE 6: LOUIX XIV, CHECKMATE? (1689-1701)
BROADCASTERS
TEAM
Producers
Josette D. Normandeau, André Barro, Isabelle Couture (Canada)
Samuel Kissous (France)
Scriptwriters
Christopher Holt, Vanessa Pontet
Directors
Vanessa Pontet, Alain Brunard
Composer
Léonard Le Cloarec
With
Bruno Solo
Genre
Docu-fiction
Format
6 x 52’
Language
French
Support
4K, UHD, HD
Copyright 2020
Conversations with Dolphins
Dolphins have been a source of curiosity and have appeared in our stories and myths for thousands of years. We know they are intelligent mammals, but just how intelligent are they, and how is dolphin intelligence expressed?
Adam Walker, an open ocean endurance swimmer, set out on an eight-hour swim to cross the Cook Strait off the coast of New Zealand. After several hours in the cold water, exhausted, he suddenly found himself surrounded by a group of Dusky dolphins. Little did he know he was also being closely followed by a Great White shark. The dolphins appeared to be protecting him from the dangerous predator, which left an indelible impression on Adam.
What is the link between our two species? Why do we seem to be so interested and curious about each other? Could we have more in common than we believe? Scientists around the world are asking themselves the same questions.
Over the decades the focus on dolphin research has changed from asking “how intelligent are dolphins?” to “how are dolphins intelligent?”
Conversations with Dolphins brings us to the research sites of some of the most internationally renowned dolphin experts studying dolphins in the wild. Do dolphins think the way we do or are their brains wired in a very different way from ours?
Co-production
France (MC4) / Canada (Ideacom International)
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
Awards
FILMAR 2018
– Prix Jumeau d’Or 2018
– People’s Choice Award – France Bleu Pays Basque
Fête Européenne de l’Image Sous-Marine et de l’Environnement
First Prize
Broadcasters
The Team
Producers
Amy Webb (Canada)
Josette D. Normandeau (Canada)
Jean-Pierre Bailly (France)
Pascale Ysebaert (France)
Scriptwriter
Jérôme Julienne
Directors
John Jackson
Jérôme Julienne
Director of Photography
John Jackson
Underwater Photography
Roberto Rinaldi
Bahamas Second Unit
Andrew Byatt
Editor
Alexis de Favitski
Original Music
Frédéric Weber
Sound Design
Daniel Toussaint
Category
Documentary – Science & Wildlife
Format
Mini-series (2 x 52’)
Languages
English, French
Shooting Format
4K
Delivery
HDCAM SR / 4K
Copyright 2016
Le Parti québécois, l’affaire d’une génération ?
Ce film revisite la période euphorique de novembre 1976 puis les heures exaltantes vécues par cette formation, jusqu’à sa terrible déconfiture en avril 2014. Le parcours s’effectue à travers de nombreuses archives poignantes, ponctuées d’entrevues d’anciens élus, conseillers, militants, politologues, spécialistes en histoire et essayistes, en incluant des regards néo-Québécois et le point de vue d’une variété de générations. Le journaliste Marc Laurendeau, qui a suivi de près l’évolution du Parti Québécois sur toutes ces années, s’interroge sur sa survie!
Production
Ideacom International
Broadcasters
The team
Producers
Amy Webb
Josette D. Normandeau
Executive Producer
Jacques Nadeau
Scriptwriter
Marc Laurendeau
Director
Bruno Boulianne
Archival Researcher
Nancy Marcotte
Director of Photography
Alex Margineanu
Original Music
Frédéric Weber
Category
Documentary – History, Politics
Format
1 x 52’
Language
French
Delivery
HDCAM SR
Copyright 2016
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