Frédéric Fougea

Il danse pour ses cormorans (1993), the most famous work of the series, tells the story of a Chinese fisherman who has trained his cormorants using ancestral techniques: they obey his voice and movements and fish for him.

The film depicts the remarkable friendship between a young Scotsman and a macaque who helps him to fight against cultural heritage traffic in India.

In its first broadcast on France 3, the docu-fiction was watched by 8.7 million viewers, 34.2% of the public; referred to by Le Parisien as a real "television event".

In the meantime, Frédéric Fougea wrote and produced the true story of a chimpanzee and its trainer in "Ham, Astrochimp #65" (2006), directed by Jérôme-Cecil Auffret.

Created for a prime time audience, and made with substantial production value, the series aims to transport the viewer to behind the scenes of power and to relive all the intensity and drama of the key moments in our history.

Following "L’Assassinat d’Henri IV "and "L’Évasion de Louis XVI", "L’Appel du 18 juin" was broadcast in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the event.

In 2010, he organised an ambitious shoot in Japan: "Facing the Killer Volcano", a docu-fiction directed by Jérôme Cornuau that recounts the final days of Maurice and Katia Krafft on the slopes of Mount Unzen.

[9] The film is a journey to the heart of French wildlife, made up of little animal "stories" filmed as closely as possible: two stags who fight for the attentions of a group of does, two wolf cubs leaving their den for the first time, a family of geese featuring a rebellious daughter,[10] the "fabulous destiny of a grouper who changes sex"[9]…This "documentary event of international proportions"[11] took three years of work and a budget of remarkable size for a documentary – more than 3 million euros.

[10] The shooting was carried out having resorted to ultra perfected materials: drones, subaquatic cameras, helicopters, hot-air balloons, flights in Microlights.

In 2016, he will direct "First Man", a docu-fiction coproduced by Boréales and Nilaya Productions, which recounts the great adventure of evolution through the saga of a single family.