Cyprien Ponson

At 18, Cyprien Ponson left his countryside of Ardèche for Lyon to study anthropology, cinema and
history. He then completed the CREADOC master’s degree of documentary creation in
Angoulême.
In 2017, he co-directed BÉ’ JAM BÉ the never ending song with Caroline Parietti. Their

film was first screened at the Visions du Réel festival, where it received the Buyens-
Chagoll Award for “Films of humanist dimension focusing on stories developing values

that confer meaning to the future of mankind”. Thereafter it was screened in many
festivals around the world. The film was an immersion into forest life with some of its
inhabitants from the Penan communities in Borneo, struggling to preserve their land and
very existence.
A jack-of-all-trades and master of none, Cyprien records sounds, shoots, edits, grades
color. On any given day, he is filmmaker, gardener, cinema programmer, chicken
farmer…
Back in his native Ardèche, Cyprien worked on his second feature film, From Here to the
Apple Tree, which, in the vein of the previous one, looks with concern at the destruction
of the lands and its beings.