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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