Vivendi

Christine Cauquelin, Directrice Director, Documentaries, Canal+ Group (ASDR 2009)

Canal+, a creator of progressive documentaries
« In 2009, Canal+ reaffi rmed its documentary policy of engaging today’s world. Playing a major role in exploring major national and international issues, the channel makes a habit of engaging subscribers via its documentaries to make them feel that they too can take action. Since looking at the world with ever-new eyes and endeavoring to understand, decrypt, and underline its specifi cities and its mutations is native to the documentary genre, it naturally has its place as an ally of sustainable-development issues.
By nourishing discussion of human values, social cohesion, diversity, the impacts of our activities and decisions on the environment, or more generally the notion of living together, our documentaries take a humanistic and progressive view of the world. Through our series Cinéma documentaire, we pay tribute to great filmmakers whose work has never been distributed in France before, encouraging a plurality of quality narratives.
In awakening citizens’ consciences to the values of democracy, being vigilant regarding tendencies that endanger it, reaffi rming a common destiny in a France of social solidarity, tolerance, and progress; but also in promoting openness towards others, opening windows onto different peoples, cultures, and lifestyles, and raising our subscribers’ awareness of the major challenges of the new century and the building of a sustainable world, television reaffi rms its citizenship role. And the task of our Documentaries Department is to enable that. »