Canal+ Group: a documentary and a web series “Les Eclaireurs” around “Plastic Odyssey”

Support by the Canal+ group for Operation Plastic Odyssey, named after a laboratory ship that travels the coasts of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic to save the world from plastic, will result in a documentary (75') broadcast in the fall on Canal+ and a web series (10 episodes) labeled from its Les Eclaireurs collection, detailed the Vivendi subsidiary on Friday March 24.

Highlighted at the last Fipadoc to illustrate its policy on impact documentaries, these films intended to move the lines (Satellifacts, January 24), the audiovisual version of the expedition initiated by two former merchant mariners, Simon Bernard and Alexandre Dechelotte, is produced by Les Gens Bien Productions (Vivien Lemaignan, Gil Kébaïli) . The trailer for the web series was posted on March 22 on the Les Eclaireurs YouTube channel.

While 20 tonnes of plastic are pouring into the oceans every minute, the Plastic Odyssey sails from port to port in order to hatch local waste treatment initiatives, develop the recycling economy to create jobs and raise awareness for local citizens by distributing free prototypes of low-tech machines to recycle plastic. In the first episode of Les Eclaireurs, the team travels to Dakar to meet Lamine Dieng who is working on a technique to control the ubiquity of plastic bags and the proliferation of an invasive plant.