Birthday:
03-04-1961
(63 years)
Birthplace:
Paris, France
Biography
Frédéric Fougea is a French author, director and cinema and television producer, born March 4, 1961, in Paris. He heads the production company Boréales, which he founded in 1987.
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Man to Man
Author
event2005 star_border 6.2
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An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the link between man and ape.
Animal Kingdom: Let's Go Ape
Producer
event2015 star_border 5.2
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Based on the novel 'Evolution Man' by Roy Lewis, this tells the story about the first man - young Edward - to descend from apes. Edward is ejected by his tribe, but is very resourceful. He learns to walk, discovers fire, manages to hunt - and we follow him as he evolves. He has a generous nature, and search for true humanity - a world where we don't eat our fathers.
Hanuman
Director
event1998 star_border 5.9
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Hanuman is the most lovable baby monkey one can imagine. He meets Tom who comes to visit the temple in the Valley of Monkeys and tries to protect it from the robbers. A warm relationship develops between the two.
Homo sapiens
Writer
event2005 star_border 7.6
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Two hundred and fifty thousand years ago, the first direct representative of our species appeared on earth: Homo Sapiens... From 400,000 to 20,000 BC, we follow the destiny of Homo Erectus, Neanderthal and Sapiens. We will thus discover the appearance of language, art, cults, agriculture, and breeding.
A Species Odyssey
Writer
event2003 star_border 7.5
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"A Species Odyssey" portrays the origins of Mankind from the moment the first primate stood up on their hind legs and set off to conquer the African Savanna, to modern Man, setting off to conquer space. 7 million years of triumph fraught with difficulties and extraordinary events that make Man what he is today.
Birth of Civilization
Producer
event2007 star_border 7.2
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With the help of state of the art special effects, this National Geographic documentary attempts to recreate what civilization looked like during the first 8,000 years that human beings lived on Earth.
Lords of the Animals: The Tsaatan, The Reindeer Riders
Producer
event1994
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Bat belongs to the Tsaatan clan. As do all his people, Bat confides his family’s protection to a chosen reindeer, the Sacred Reindeer. The animal protects his family from spells, diseases and he is their guardian of happiness. Bat’s Sacred Reindeer has just turned fifteen, which is old for these animals. In a few days the temperature will sink to forty below, and snow will cover everything for eight months. It is time, now, to leave. Bat and his family are moving into the woods. There they will prepare for the cold. The long caravan sets out. For Bat’s Sacred Reindeer, this is the last voyage.
First Man
Director
event2017 star_border 8.2
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Man’s early ancestors set off to conquer the world, to explore the unknown, to adapt to every environment. And one day, to conquer fire – a discovery that made them invincible. They built shelters. They transformed their environment. But still this did not slake their thirst for more. They sought to fathom Nature’s mysteries. They invented stories to explain the inexplicable. Now, they are Men. Here, for the very first time in television history, is the saga of our origins, told through the story of one single family - an epic journey upon which the latest scientific discoveries shine an exciting new light.
Paris: A Wild Story
Director
event2017 star_border 8.1
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There exists a wild and unsung Paris that we do not suspect. Let’s take a walk on the city’s wild side, and set off in search of its secret tales.
Wild France
Producer
event2013 star_border 7
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A documentary that shows the different fauna that populates natural habitats of France, and the people that aims to protect and preserve them.
The Sanctuary: Survival Stories of the Alps
Writer
event2019 star_border 8.8
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A dive inside a wild land where nature hides some of her greatest secrets: The Alps. Steep slopes, wind swept cutting edge rocks. An air desperately lacking of oxygen. A biting cold. How do living beings adapt to those extreme conditions?
Man's First Friend
Director
event2018 star_border 9.3
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He has shared our lives for 20,000 years. Along the way, he has helped us find food, kept our livestock, protected us from our enemies, guided us in extreme conditions, and saved us from peril. Now, he comforts us, relieving loneliness and helping us cope with old age. How did dogs come about?
The Snow Wolf: A Winter's Tale
Co-Producer
event2018 star_border 7.7
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A dramatized tale of how wolves recovered in Europe after almost going extinct.
Natural World
Director (2 ep.)
event1983 star_border 7.1
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Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983.
Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.
Nature
Director (1 ep.)
event1982 star_border 8.1
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Consistently stunning documentaries transport viewers to far-flung locations ranging from the torrid African plains to the chilly splendours of icy Antarctica. The show's primary focus is on animals and ecosystems around the world. A comic book based on the show, meant to be used an as educational tool for kids, was briefly distributed to museums and schools at no cost in the mid-2000s.
Terra Mater
Writer (2 ep.)
event2011 star_border 9
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Terra Mater is a TV film series about nature, science and history.
Lords of the Animals
Director (13 ep.)
event1992
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The Lords of the Animals, one of BOREALES’s leading productions is a 13x26’ series of documentary tales recounting the most extraordinary symbiotic relationships between man and animals.
This anthology co-produced by Boréales and Canal + continues to meet with tremendous international success and has been translated into thirty languages. Over a hundred awards including Pandas in Windscreen, a Green Oscar at the Wildlife Film Festival in Jackson Hole and an International Emmy Award.
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