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Jean Lemire est un cinéaste québécois avec un fort intérêt pour la biologie et l'océanographie. Il fut chef des expéditions Mission Arctique ( 2002 ), Mission Baleines ( 2003 ), Mission Antarctique ( 2005 - 2006 ) et la mission 1000 jours pour la planète (2012-2016), toutes réalisées à bord du voilier Sedna IV .
Cette page d'homonymie répertorie différentes personnes portant le même nom et le même prénom. Jean Lemire (1625–1684), est l'ancêtre des Lemire du Québec. Jean Lemire (1962-), est un cinéaste et biologiste québécois. Jean Lemire fut l' évêque d' Anvers. Catégories : Homonymie de personnes.
Jean Lemire (1625—1685) was a master carpenter and a syndic of Quebec City, and is the ancestor of most Lemires living in Canada. His father and mother, Mathurin LeMire and Jeanne Vannier, lived in the Saint Vivien district of Rouen, Normandy. Rouen is a port on the Seine river. Jean Lemire was baptized in the Saint Vivien church June 4, 1625.
Il a été nommé émissaire aux changements climatiques et aux enjeux nordiques et arctiques par le gouvernement du Québec en septembre 2017, devenant ainsi le premier émissaire de l’histoire de la diplomatie québécoise. À ce titre, il développe des partenariats internationaux et représente le gouvernement du Québec auprès de ...
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The story of a journey, told partly in the form of a travel diary. A crew of filmmakers, scientists, and seasoned sailors, undertake a five-month, 21,000-kilometre scientific mission to record the impact of global warming on the islands of the Canadian Arctic. The crew navigate the three-masted sailing yacht Sedna IV through the Northwest Passage, ...
Development, financing, and the Sedna IV
A biologist by training, mission leader Jean Lemire worked for the Canadian Wildlife Service before becoming a documentary filmmaker. He dreamed of filming an "environmental awareness journey" for twelve years. Writer Thierry Piantanida chronicled the work of the legendary marine documentarian Jacques Cousteau. Frédéric Back and David Suzuki were honorary presidents of the project, which was two years in the making, a period of "intense efforts and negotiations". Canadian public-sector partne...
Crew, supplies, and itinerary
For a journey projected as lasting up to six months, the Sedna IV had a permanent crew of fifteen, including a doctor, skilled underwater divers and the filmmakers,picking up other researchers and scientists along the way, with a supply of 7.2 tonnes of food and 78,000 litres of fuel. The ship was supposed to depart on 16 June 2002 from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, but was delayed almost two weeks due to heavy ice conditions off the coast of Labrador. After sailing along the Labrador coast, th...
Series
The documentary film was the first in a series of five, all with the same producers but different directors, with a collective budget of $5.9 million, all shot on the same expedition under Lemire's leadership, with the project title, Mission Arctique (Arctic Mission), each one exploring a different aspect of the impact of global warming on Canada's North, including the effect on the region's Inuit and an analysis of world politics surrounding global warming, as Lemire explained: The Arctic mi...
La grande traversée had its premiere at the Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media on 31 October 2003. The documentary was screened at other film festivals in Canada and Europe, earning awards. There was a special screening before a United Nationscommission in December 2003.
Commercial performance
La grande traversée was the fourth-highest grossing documentary film in Canada for the year 2003, collecting $12,113 in box office receipts, according to data from the Motion Picture Theatres Association of Canada.According to a National Film Board publication, it always played to a full house.
Critical response
Séverine Kandelman called the documentary a good family film, despite a few flaws in execution and a commentary which occasionally waxes a little too poetic. The film inspires admiration for the brave explorers who undertook the same voyage in hostile waters but with far less advanced technology, opening a window on a little-known world and serving as a reminder of the dangers of global warming.Louise-Véronique Sicotte agrees in the main: there is a great deal of information presented along w...
Accolades
1. Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, Gemini and GémeauxAwards, Best Sound in an Information/Documentary Program or Series, 2004 2. Yorkton Film Festival, Golden Sheaf Award, Nature/Environment category, 2004 Other documentaries in the series also received nominations and honours (notably, the National Geographic Society's Earthwatch Award for Caroline Underwood's film),as did the series as a body of work.
Official excerpt on YouTube(English)Mission arctique series on IMDb (as Arctic Mission: The Great Adventure)Media in category "Jean Lemire" The following 3 files are in this category, out of 3 total. Fete nationale du Quebec, rue Saint-Denis, 2015-06-24 - 095.jpg 5,152 × 3,864; 4.52 MB
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