Biography

Frédéric Dieudonné is an award-winning writer, a filmmaker and a producer, environmentalist and co-creator of the Jules Verne Festival, born in France, September 21, 1969.

From 1999 on, Dieudonné co-produced several highly acclaimed and award-winning documentaries, narrated by Christopher Lee, Ernest Borgnine, Charlotte Rampling and Zachary Quinto, including Passage to Mars, Devil's Islands, Red and White. Whales of Atlantis, Amazon Trek, 100 Years Under the Sea, Devil's Island.

In 2014, Dieudonné was elected a Fellow of the famed Explorers Club, based in New York City.

In 2006, Dieudonné wrote, directed and co-produced the Jules Verne Adventures TV documentary Explorers: From the Titanic to the Moon, starring producer/director James Cameron and veteran Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin.

From 2012 to 2015, he produced the film Passage to Mars (directed by Jean-Christophe Jeauffre and narrated by Zachary Quinto), with NASA.

In 1992 Dieudonné and Jean-Christophe Jeauffre founded the nonprofit Jules Verne Adventures organization, the Jules Verne Festival and The Jules Verne Awards. Based in Paris and Los Angeles.

The Jules Verne Festival traditionally includes an awards ceremony during which selected explorers, environmentalists, filmmakers and movie stars are presented with the Jules Verne Award. Among others, the Jules Verne Award was given to Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Charlotte Rampling, Claude Lelouch, Johnny Depp, Christopher Lee, Patrick Stewart, Mark Hamill, Buzz Aldrin, William Shatner, Tippi Hedren, Stan Lee, Ray Bradbury, Ted Turner, Richard Dean Anderson, Larry Hagman, Christopher Reeve, Roy E. Disney, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Steve McQueen, TV series Heroes, Lost, Stargate SG1 and Battlestar Galactica cast and crew, and has celebrated movie classics such as Blade Runner, Forbidden Planet, Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, Some Like It Hot and The Wild Bunch.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ray G. Burroughs