Luc Jacquet (French pronunciation: [lyk ʒakɛ]; born 5 December 1967) is a French film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed the film March of the Penguins, which won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in 2006 and received a nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay. He also directed The Fox and the Child. It was released in Britain and Ireland in slightly re-edited dubbed English-language version with narration by Kate Winslet, and was released in the United States on 29 February 2008.
His 2015 film Ice and the Sky was selected to close the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
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Biography
Born in Bourg-en-Bresse, Luc Jacquet spent his youth in the Jura region of Ain. It is in this environment that his passion for nature gradually developed: I started creating my own world, looking up, taking pleasure in watching and listening to the singing of birds It was also in this setting that he got used to the cold and snow.
A trained ecologist, he studied at the Lyon I University, where he earned a Master's degree in animal biology in 1991 (more specifically in organism and population biology), then at the University of Grenoble, where he obtained a DEA in management of mountain natural environments in 1993. He then aimed for a career as a researcher in animal behavior. He completed numerous field internships, working notably on aquatic ecology, ornithology, and a population of marmots in the Vanoise Massif. He already describes himself as a jack-of-all-trades and vagabond According to him, his scientific studies also helped him acquire a certain rigor necessary for his career as a filmmaker.
