It is in the presence of Christine Cauquelin, director of documentaries and “Découverte” channels of the Canal+ group, that the trophies were presented to the winners of the 2023 call for projects “Committing to the future”.
Christine Cauquelin chaired the jury which selected the five Reunion documentary projects from this third edition of the call for projects “Committing to the future”. “The future belongs to those who dream big” : this was the theme of this call for projects intended to promote Reunion documentaries. Sixteen applications were submitted and five winners selected, with each person receiving a budget of 40,000 euros financing the production of their documentary, with the support of the Réunion Region and the National Center for Cinema and Animated Images (CNC). Delivery of the five documentaries is set for June 2025, for broadcast in the second half of the same year. In view of the files presented, Christine Cauquelin said she had “the impression of being immersed in the territory”. A great way to talk about the quality of the projects proposed. The five selected project leaders were able to speak at length with the director of documentaries of the Canal+ group, who shared with them his own experience and the channel's expectations in terms of documentary films.
The 2023 selection
Caloubadia, by Julien Fleurance and Marine Sigismeau : “A work of recognition of a past that is both tumultuous and luminous, which takes place at the heart of the history of a family and that of the island of Reunion. » Ghetto Dreams, the DKpit K Dick : story of the journey of this director born in Camélias. Madame Nataly, by Estelle Jomaron-Galabert : the story of the founder of the association Aïna, which gives a future to abandoned or orphaned children in Madagascar. The sun is rising to the east, by Céline Aho-Nienne : “At Saint-Benoît, Olivier Mussate's class dreams of poetry in the footsteps of the great Creole poet Daniel Honoré. » Babadzyé Artemis, by Éricka Étangsalé : of modest origin, Reunion Islander Erika Vélio became an engineer in the space field, she participates in the preparation of the Artemis mission which will send back astronauts, including a woman, on the Moon.
