"Culture Médias" receives Friday Edouard Bergeon, director of the film "In the name of the earth" and creator of the CultivonsNous.tv channel.

He confides in Philippe Vandel's microphone on his upcoming projects, and in particular the feature film he is preparing with Guillaume Canet around the farmer Paul François.

INTERVIEW

Guillaume Canet will soon embody a man of the land and of combat.

The actor will play Paul François, the farmer poisoned by a Monsanto herbicide and who won three lawsuits against the American giant, in Edouard Bergeon's next film.

This is what the director of the film

In the name of the earth

 and creator of the CultivonsNous.tv channel

revealed on

Friday, on the occasion of his invitation to Philippe Vandel's 

Culture Médias program

.

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"We will be shooting, surely next year, a next film with Guillaume Canet on the agricultural world, adapting the story of Paul François, this farmer who defeated Monsanto following poisoning from a weedkiller which is now banned. ", specifies Edouard Bergeon.

"So, I continue the cinema, with Christophe Rossignon who is an incredible producer and who trusted me."

A biopic, a documentary, a book and a festival

But the director, himself a farmer, is also preparing a documentary. "I am working at the same time on another project with Emmanuel Courcol, my co-author. We write about palm oil between Borneo and France, on the impact of this green energy, which is not so green, whether it is for the local populations and for the Earth ", he reveals.

Among Edouard Bergeon's other projects, the development of his platform CultivonsNous.tv. "It's going to grow into a big 350-page book that I hope could be under a lot of people's Christmas trees by the end of this year," he hopes. "We are also in the process of organizing a festival in Tours, a sort of Assises du Better Eat, which will be held at the start of the school year in September or October." So many projects for Edouard Bergeon, who runs his farm at the same time. "You have to be surrounded," he explains. "We don't do anything when we're all alone."