Frédéric Dieudonné is a French writer, a filmmaker and a producer, environmentalist, and co-creator, with Jean-Christophe Jeauffre, of the Jules Verne Film Festival in 1992.
After earning a master's degree in Modern Literature, with honours, from the Sorbonne University of Paris in 1991, he founded the nonprofit Jules Verne Adventures the same year, along with Jean-Christophe Jeauffre.
The inaugural American launch of the Los Angeles Jules Verne Festival[6] (October 2006 at the Shrine Auditorium) has celebrated the work of George Lucas,[7] Harrison Ford, Jane Goodall, and James Cameron, and attracted 6,300 attendees.
[citation needed] From 1999 on, Dieudonné co-produced several films for TV via Jules Verne Adventures, including Devil's Islands[8] and Red and White.
In 2006, Dieudonné wrote, directed and co-produced theJules Verne Adventures]TV documentary Explorers: From the Titanic to the Moon, starring producer/director James Cameron and veteran Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin.