Gedeon to Release Doc on French Navigator

PARIS, March 16: France’s
Gedeon Programmes will release a 70-minute documentary on the world tour of
French navigator Maud Fontenoy.

Directed by Luc Marescot,
the documentary will feature shots of her preparation, her five months at sea
in all conditions, phone conversations between Fontenoy and her mother, and her
arrival back in Reunion Island March 14. Fontenoy, whose mast had broken on
February 10, had decided to sail at all costs and managed to build a mast with
her broom. Footage of her “Challenge Against the Current” tour was culled from
seven cameras on board.