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)