Welcome to the Galapagos, the laboratory of evolution that inspired the naturalist Charles Darwin when he was young. On this island sanctuary, the first quivers of life and all its creative power can be experienced. This setting is the starting point of a dive into the heart of evolution, this fascinating and invisible form that unwittingly transforms the living beings of planet Earth. Understanding the mechanisms of evolution also means improving our understanding of the future of our species and the impact of the upheavals that are taking place on our future.
GALAPAGOS
by luc jacquet
«Exploring our planet’s living archives in search of inspiration for our future»
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THE PROJECT
« USING CINEMASCOPE TO PAINT THE GREAT FRESCO OF LIFE, ILLUMINATED BY MODERN SCIENCE »
Luc Jacquet
GALAPAGOS is an epic voyage to the very roots of evolution, to understand how life itself works.
Welcome to the Galapagos islands, a veritable real-world laboratory that was the inspiration for young naturalist Charles Darwin some two centuries ago. What better destination in which to observe all the creative power of life, and ask ourselves the big questions about the meaning of life itself? GALAPAGOS is a suite of works that all share a single common theme: evolution. They will include a documentary film, an immersive traveling exhibition, and a series of educational and scientific mediation programs.
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10 EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITIES
EXPECTED TOTAL ATTENDANCE: MORE THAN 2 MILLION
AN IMMERSIVE TRAVELING EXHIBITION
LIFE SPAN OF TOURING EXHIBITION: 72 MONTHS
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AN IMMERSIVE TRAVELING EXHIBITION
1 PURPOSE- BUILT PORTABLE MARQUEE
AVAILABLE IN 24 LANGUAGES
Our exhibition is designed as a new media format , a mix of cinema, artistic experience, and scientific mediation. It is a medium that blends pure entertainment, emotion and storytelling with education and popular science. As they pass through the ultra-large scale exhibition space, immersed in images and sounds, visitors are able to observe the workings of life itself. From scales to blue feet, by taking a closer look at the little details, they discover the extraordinarily diverse forms that life takes. Seeing things on different scales, from the largest to the most minute, visitors are taken on a journey through time to explore the changes that have occurred and contemplate the concept of species. A time-traveling adventure in which we meet the young Darwin, who will soon make his earth-shattering discoveries. Little by little, room by room, the mysteries of genetics and DNA become clear. The exhibition walks visitors through an emotional and instructive experience.
MORE THAN 2 HOURS
EXHIBITION FLOOR SPACE: 1 600 M 2
OF CINEMA SEQUENCES
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A PREMIUM DOCUMENTARY FILM FEATURING SPECTACULAR IMAGES
Why on earth, on an island in the vast expanses of the Pacific, do these strange birds have blue feet that are found nowhere else? On the surface and beneath the ocean, our documentary titled “Why Do Boobies Have Blue Feet?” is a fun and informative investigation into the great history of life on our planet, the story of extraordinary machinery built from perseverance, resilience, and the happy quirks that are the true engine of Evolution. A new film about the flora and fauna found in this archipelago is an opportunity to highlight an island teeming with extraordinary endemic species, through a collection of spectacular images. This exceptional film will be broadcast in a prime-time slot on France 2, the second most popular channel on French television. Its director, Luc Jacquet, has gained international acclaim with his films about the links between nature and mankind, including The Fox and the Child and his global smash-hit March of the Penguins, which won the 2006 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Like his earlier projects, Why Do Boobies Have Blue Feet? will be shown around the world via leading platforms and international broadcasters (Discovery, National Geographic, NHK, CCTV9, ZDF, Raï, Nova, and others).
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EDUCATIONAL CONTENT SHARING KNOWLEDGE
For ten years, our expertise has been in building bridges between the scientific community and the wider public. We work with researchers, experts, and field specialists , who give us access to first- hand information and the latest knowledge. We also bring a lot of content back with us from our expeditions, from interviews to never-seen-before video footage and still images. We aim to share that content as widely as possible. We are lucky enough to visit some of the remotest places on the planet and talk to some of the world’s top experts. We want to share that good fortune and knowledge! We do that through e-learning courses for all, partnerships with professional education networks and young people’s press, to raise awareness about the beauty of nature and how it works, particularly with younger audiences.
UNDERSTAND AND LEARN
E-LEARNING, MEDIA PARTNERSHIPS …
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AN INNOVANT DIGITAL EXPERIENCE
We plan to create an Augmented Reality experience around the Galapagos project, by developing one or more applications that are linked to the exhibition, but can also be used independently. We will also make a 360° documentary available on the Oculus and Steam platforms, and visible in the museum spaces. Time travel is finally possible! We will immerse spectators completely in these diverse and extraordinary landscapes, between land and sea.
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IN SUMMARY
EXPLORING the Galapagos islands, DISCOVERING local flora and fauna, UNDERSTANDING how life works.
TELLING A STORY frommultiple viewpoints and through a variety of media to attract different audiences: • a traveling exhibition • a documentary film • one or more Augmented Reality applications • a 360° Virtual Reality project • knowledge sharing through educational content
STIMULATING CURIOSITY by showing the Galapagos as they have never been seen before, with brand new images. USING NEW AUDIOVISUAL TECHNOLOGIES in a fun and educational way. PRODUCING MULTIPLE-LANGUAGE VERSIONS of all expedition-related content, for international broadcast.
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OUR TEAM
ICEBREAKER STUDIOS
ICEBREAKER STUDIOS was founded by Luc Jacquet and Patrick Faivre, from their shared belief that the need to love and understand the world is universal. The more we understand the world, the better humans will take care of it. With that positive ambition, they aim to use their experience to build a virtuous economic system, producing a whole new kind of films and exhibitions that promote those values. An economic model that relies on the highest standards of quality and artistic flair, to create productions that speak to a global audience through the universal language of images and emotions.
LUC JACQUET
Filmmaker, associate founder of Icebreaker Studios
After a higher education in biology, spending 14 months in Antarctica at the French Dumont d’Urville base led Luc Jacquet to discover his two greatest passions: the image and scientific mediation. His first feature-length film, March of the Penguins has been seen by over 25 million people around the world. He has won many awards, including the prestigious Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oscar for Best Documentary (Feature) in 2006. In 2010, he founded the Wild-Touch Association, aimed at nature conservation by means of the emotions of images and film. After Once upon a Forest (2013), Luc Jacquet continued his cinematographic adventure alongside the retired glaciologist Claude Lorius, by making another feature film, Ice and the Sky , released in autumn 2015. This project was accompanied by an ambitious transmedia program, led by the association, revolving around the major issue of climate change. Today, Luc Jacquet is working with Icebreaker Studios on new projects related to evolution, biodiversity...
* Oscar for Best Documentary (Feature), March of the Penguins
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OUR TEAM
Line producer Martin Blum has worked on movie industry sound stages for over 16 years. To begin with, he learned his craft working with filmmakers of the caliber of Alain Corneau, Édouard Molinaro and Claude Lelouch. As an Assistant Director, he started working with Luc Jacquet in 2006. Jacquet taught him all about major nature films, laying the groundwork for their fruitful long-term collaboration. From 2012 to 2014, he worked alongside Jacques Perrin on his film Seasons . From the Amazon to the Gobi desert, Martin is an expert in the tricky task of complicated filmmaking on the other side of the world. MARTIN BLUM
PATRICK FAIVRE
President of Icebreaker Studios Patrick Faivre began his career as an audiovisual producer for key accounts (EDF, Air France and others), and turned freelance in 1990. He established and directs the Big Bang communications consultancy, which now has 17 permanent employees. In 1998, he founded the École Bleue in Paris, an interior design and architecture school and associate member of the Collège de Paris, which joined the Campus of Excellence in Art and Design in 2020. A highly curious entrepreneur, he grasps the opportunities that cometo him to move into new industries and offer new services. He thus established D-klik Interactiv, a specialist in digital solutions, then purchased the Gala Communication agency, a packaging specialist and founded the Boao Edition publishing house. He then worked in Bucharest at the Romania branch of the Big Bang agency and purchased the multimedia agency Andesys, followed by the Malice advertising agency in Lyon. When he bought Aster, a production company specialized in nature and animal documentaries for CANAL+ and France Télévision, he returned to his original passion. About a decade ago, he met Luc Jacquet and worked on developing the films Once upon a Forest and Ice and the Sky . In 2018, they joined forces to found LJPF and ICEBREAKER to develop major cultural projects focused on nature.
OUR TEAM
PAPRIKA FILMS
LAURENT BAUJARD
Producer After studying economics, Laurent Baujard began his audiovisual career as a consultant on DTT and streaming media. Eager to tackle content, he worked at a DVD publisher before joining AGAT Films/ Ex Nihilo where he trained as an audiovisual producer. In 2005, he joined GEDEON Programmes as executive producer before becoming a partner and executive producer. He has produced several films focusing on science, history, discovery and adventure. There, he took charge of the production of the first French 3D documentary film, Madagascar, le Makay perdu for Canal+. In 2013, he produced a $15 million 3D feature, Amazon, released in more than 70 countries. In 2014, he became the executive producer of Rendez-vous en terre inconnue , a flagship show on France Télévisions. At the same time, he was building up his own company, Paprika Films, where he produced an expedition to Antarctica in 2016 with Luc Jacquet. This expedition resulted in a 360° audiovisual project, including the feature L’Empereur , two TV documentaries, a virtual reality experience and an immersive exhibition visited by more than 1 million people. He also produced Two of Us by Filippo Meneghetti*, Just the Wind by Bence Fliegauf (Silver Bear at Berlin), Emin Alper’s Abluka (Silver Lion at Venice), Luc Jacquet’s L’Empereur , The Velvet Quenn by Marie Amiguet** with Vincent Munier and Sylvain Tesson and Last Words by Jonathan Nossiter (Official Selection at Cannes).
Led by Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin and Laurent Baujard, Paprika Films aims to discover and nurture new cinema talents. The firm’s core activity is ambitious documentaries and feature-length films, with a strong environmental and social focus. Paprika Films produced Two of Us by Filippo Meneghetti, which won the 2021 César award for Best Debut Feature, in addition to being nominated at the Golden Globes and short-listed for the Oscars, along with The Velvet Queen by Marie Amiguet and Vincent Munier, winner of the 2022 César for Best Documentary Feature. Paprika Films has been working with Luc Jacquet for five years, including on the Antarctica project, which has been broadcast to a wide audience through multiple media channels: cinema, television, museography, VR, educational modules, and coffee table books.
* 2021 César for Best First Feature Film and film selected to represent France at the 2021 Oscars ** 2022 César 2022 for Best Documentary Feature
OUR PARTNERS
FRANCE TÉLÉVISIONS
CANOPÉ
France’s leading documentary broadcaster, France Télévisions will contribute to the creation and broadcast of the various content produced for the GALAPAGOS project: the documentary film, virtual reality, and exhibition.
The Canopé Network, a public institution attached to the French National Education Ministry, publishes educational multimedia resources (print, digital, smartphone apps, TV) for the teaching community, to promote academic success for students. This public operator is present across France.
LUMNI
UNESCO
Lumni is the digital educational platform of the French public audiovisual service (Arte, France Médias Monde, France Télévisions, INA, Radio France, and TV5Monde) providing content for school pupils, students, teachers, and educators. This unique, free, expert assessed and ad-free offering provides access to culture and knowledge for all children and young people aged 3 to 20, and covers all school subjects from elementary to high school level. The Lumni catalogue includes over 12,000 videos, audio recordings, games, and other theme-based content. For the GALAPAGOS project, LUMNI will develop TV programs for children and young people.
UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, works to foster peace through international cooperation in these areas. Acting as a testing ground for ideas, UNESCO runs programs that encourage the free circulation of ideas and the sharing of knowledge. It is around these values that ICEBREAKER and UNESCO came together to sign a partnership deal, under which ICEBREAKER provides the talents of its storytellers and creative visual content specialists, while UNESCO shares ICEBREAKER’s productions and educational content through its international network.
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MARTIN BLUM martin.blum@icebreaker-studios.com +33 (0)6 80 72 33 06
LAURENT BAUJARD lbaujard@paprikafilms.fr +33 (0)6 61 71 83 43
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