Cyril Dion

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Cyril Dion (2015)

Cyril Dion (born July 23, 1978 ) is a French writer, director, poet and activist.

Career

After studying at the École d'art dramatique Jean-Périmony, he worked as an actor for a short time. He then became project coordinator for the Fondation Hommes de Parole . In 2003, 2005 and 2006 he organized an Israeli-Palestinian congress in Caux and the first and second World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for peace in Brussels and Seville .

In 2007 he and some friends founded the Colibris environmental movement , of which he was the leader until July 2013. In 2010 he was with Colibris consultant and co-producer for the film Think global act Local by Coline Serreau . In 2012 he founded the magazine Kaizen , which he was editor of from March 2012 to April 2014. In addition, together with Jean-Paul Capitani, he publishes the book series Domaine du Possible (“The realm of the possible”) for the French publisher Actes Sud .

Dion has been writing poetry since the age of 17; In 2014, his poetry collection Assis sur le fil was published by Éditions de la Table ronde.

Together with Mélanie Laurent , he wrote and produced the documentary Demain (German: Tomorrow ), which was released in France in December 2015 and in Germany in 2016. The book for the film has been translated into several languages. Tomorrow won the César for best documentary in 2016 and attracted more than a million people to the cinemas. The film has been shown in more than 30 countries. Many French have taken it as an opportunity to become more socially involved. According to the French newspaper Liberation, "Cyril Dion succeeds in one hour and 58 minutes what decades of environmental activism have not been able to do: lay the foundation for a new common fiction". In the USA, the film was recommended by the critics of the New York Times .

In September 2016, Cyril Dion was chairman of the jury for documentary film at the Biarritz Film Festival. In October he was the patron of the Atmosphère Festival and the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur in Belgium .

Dion's first novel Imago was published by Actes Sud in August 2017, and the book was well received by the critics.

In May 2018 Dion published his Petit manuel de resistance contemporaine (German: "Brief instructions for saving the earth", Reclam-Verlag 2019) at Actes Sud. Immediately after its publication, the book made it onto the non-fiction bestseller list in France. Charlotte Bloch wrote in L'Express magazine : “Instead of being moralistic or utopian, this succinct little book brings a breath of fresh air to the current environmental movement. It doesn't make any digressions, but asks clear questions and tries to find practical and constructive answers. "

In December 2018, Dion's second film, Après-Demain (“The Day After Tomorrow”) was shown on French broadcaster France 2 , RTBF in Belgium and RTS in Switzerland. It was created for the channel France 2 and was supposed to accompany the television broadcast of Tomorrow . The 71-minute documentary introduces people who became politically or socially active in response to Dion's first film. As in his Short Guide to Saving the Earth , Dion argues in his film that narratives or fictions play an important role in the development of societies. "This is the insight from après-demain : things can change as soon as there are enough people who tell a new story and take to the streets together peacefully, such as the civil rights movement or the women's movement ."

In December 2018, Dion and the actresses Juliette Binoche and Marion Cotillard took part in the action L'Affaire du Siècle (“The Matter of the Century”) organized by four NGOs ( Greenpeace , Oxfam France , the Fondation Nicolas Hulot and Notre affaire à tous) was organized. Together they want to sue the French state for not taking sufficient action against climate change . Within a few days, the associated online petition broke all French records; 2.35 million people have supported the campaign so far.

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Movies

  • Tomorrow , together with Mélanie Laurent , produced by Move Movie, 2015
  • Après-Demain , together with Laure Noualhat, 2018

Poems

  • Assis sur le fil , Editions de la Table ronde, 2014

Essays

  • Tomorrow - The world is full of solutions: The book about the film , trans. by Elisabeth Müller, Kamphausen Media, 2017
  • Brief guide to saving the earth. What we have to fight for today , over. by Ute Kruse-Ebeling, Reclam-Verlag, 2019 ( Petit manuel de résistance contemporaine: Récits et stratégies pour transformer le monde , Éditions Actes Sud, coll. “Domaine du possible”, 2018)

novel

  • Imago , Editions Actes Sud, Domaine français, 2017

Children's books

  • Demain, les aventures de Léo, Lou et Pablo à la recherche d'un monde meilleur (with Mélanie Laurent), éd. Actes Sud Junior / L'amandier, 2015
  • Demain entre tes mains (with Pierre Rabhi ), éditions Actes Sud Junior, 2017

Honors

  • Festival du film de Sarlat 2015: Salamandre d'Or (audience award)
  • Festival Ram Dam de Tournai 2016: Award for the best documentary film
  • César 2016: Award for the best documentary
  • City of Lights, City of Angels Festival Los Angeles 2016: Award for the best documentary
  • Prix ​​Saint-Just de Narbonne 2016
  • Docteur Honoris Causa of the University of Namur (October 4, 2016)
  • Blue Planet Award Nausicaa 2017
  • Prix ​​Méditerranée du premier roman 2018 for the debut novel Imago

Nominations

  • Prix ​​Lumière 2016: Award for the best documentary film
  • Stanislas 2017 Award: best debut novel
  • Style Award 2017
  • Première plume 2017 award

Web links

Commons : Cyril Dion  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Diane Lisarelli: Le monde après "Demain". In: liberation.fr. April 12, 2017, accessed October 15, 2019 (French).
  2. ^ Nicole Herrington: Review: Worried About a Sustainable Tomorrow? There's hope. In: nytimes.com. The New York Times, April 19, 2017, accessed October 15, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Delphine Peras: Une bonne polémique, et ça repart! In: lexpress.fr. June 19, 2019, accessed October 15, 2019 (French).
  4. ↑ L'Affaire du Siècle. In: laffairedusiecle.net. Retrieved October 15, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Dion, Cyril
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer, director, poet and activist
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1978