Emmanuel Cappellin

After study­ing envi­ron­men­tal sci­ences and inter­na­tion­al devel­op­ment at McGill Uni­ver­si­ty, then direct­ing and audio­vi­su­al pro­duc­tion at the Berke­ley Dig­i­tal Film Insti­tute, Emmanuel Cap­pellin chose the doc­u­men­tary mode of expres­sion to explore the rela­tion­ship between humans and their plan­et.
He began work­ing with Frédéric Back, an ear­ly envi­ron­men­tal activist and Oscar-win­ning ani­ma­tor, and went on to direct sev­er­al short films, edit Jodie Mar­tin­son’s doc­u­men­tary To the Tar Sands (2007) and trav­el to Chi­na to pro­duce and direct Thoughts & Reflec­tions (2010). Also a cin­e­matog­ra­ph­er for tele­vi­sion (ARTE, France3) and reg­u­lar col­lab­o­ra­tor with Yann Arthus-Bertrand, he has con­duct­ed hun­dreds of inter­views for the films Témoins du Cli­mat (2009), Human (2015) and Woman (2020).