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
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