Martin Boudot is a French investigative journalist , documentary filmmaker and producer based in Paris , France.
31-576: Boudot is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Léon Boudot [ fr ] (1851-1930), French painter Martin Boudot (born 1985), French investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker Paul Boudot (1571–1635), bishop of Saint-Omer and bishop of Arras Pierre-Charles Boudot (born 1992), French flat racing jockey See also [ edit ] Baudo (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
62-493: A 90 minutes documentary about the football industry • Green is the new black , co-directed with Jean-Pierre Canet , a 70 minutes documentary about greenwashing . • The Yes Men Are Revolting , Martin Boudot was a cameraman on this movie. • Les Enfants du Plomb, éditions Michel Lafon , 2024. A comic book telling the story of the "largest polluted zone in France". • Toxic Bayer, éditions Plon, 2020. An investigation about
93-536: A day. Earlier – before completion of the switchover to digital broadcasting on 29 November 2011 – the channel's analogue frequencies had carried the programmes of the Franco-German cultural channel Arte between 19.00 each evening and 3.00 the following morning. It was launched on 28 March 1994 as a temporary channel under the name Télé emploi (Teleworking), more than one year after France's first privately owned free television network, La Cinq , suffered
124-561: A financial collapse and ceased operations on 12 April 1992. La Cinquième started broadcasting on 13 December 1994 with a mix of small educational programs, during the hours not used by Arte (which launched less than 2 months after La Cinq's closure). La Cinquième was integrated in the new France Télévisions public holding in 2000, which gathered Antenne 2 (since renamed France 2 ) and FR3 (France Régions 3, since renamed France 3 ); it would be rebranded as France 5 on 7 January 2002. France 5 broadcasting hours have been extended to 24 hours
155-586: A year and a half, with the help of French and German scientists, the Green Warriors team investigated the consequences of these buried weapons. In the Grand-Est and Hauts-de-France regions, Martin Boudot and his team took twenty samples of tap water from areas surrounding old storage and destruction sites, or military sites still in operation. • Green Warriors: Flame Retardants , 52 minutes, 2024, co-directed with Mathilde Cusin, broadcast on France 5. With
186-649: Is also the director of "The Boss of Bosses" on Netflix , China's dissident Artist] on Arte , Send in the Clowns on Canal + , The Cost of Arms on the European Broadcast Alliance partners ( France 5 , RTBF , ZDF , NHK , RTS , SVT , VRT , RTVE ). He has won the 2022 Louise Weiss European Journalism Award of the Year, the 2021 "Green Impact of the Year" of the World Congress of Science,
217-488: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Martin Boudot He is the host and producer of Green Warriors , an award-winning series of scientific investigations on environmental issues, broadcast on France 5 , Al-Jazeera , Amazon Prime Video etc. He is the producer and showrunner of Planet Killers, a documentary series about the most wanted environmental criminals, aimed by Interpol red notices. He
248-620: Is the author of Toxic Bayer, an investigative book about the pharmaceutical company Bayer , as well as Toxic, an investigation about harmful chemicals impacting the health of children; and a comic book "Les Enfants du Plomb". Martin Boudot, born in 1985, graduated at the École publique de journalisme de Tours and specialized in broadcast media at Northern Colorado University . • The Cost of Arms , co-directed with Hugo Van Offel, 70 minutes, 2024, broadcast on France 5 , RTBF , ZDF , NHK , RTS , SVT , VRT , RTVE , Al Jazeera , Radio Canada. A geopolitical and investigative documentary about
279-624: The Catholic Church , with 2,2 million viewers. The day after the broadcasting, the French Catholic Church expressed its "profound shame". The investigation also showed the role of Pope Francis in the Julio Grassi case, an Argentinian priest who was sentenced to 15 years prison for sexual abuses on minors. For the first time, Pope Francis was directly asked to answer on the alleged accusations regarding its role in
310-409: The surname Boudot . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boudot&oldid=1038069091 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
341-864: The "Rory Peck Awards" in the impact category; the "Special Recommandation of the Prix Europa", The "Green Horizon Award" at the Braunschweig International Film Festival , the "Green Image" at the Green Image Film Festival of Japan, the "Trophée d'Or" at the Scientific Film Festival in La Réunion. • Green Warriors : South Africa, Toxic Townships , 52 minutes, 2018, broadcast on France 5 , Al-Jazeera , Amazon Prime Video , TVN , SIC etc. A scientific investigation about
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#1732779533701372-768: The 2019 "Rory Peck Award" in the Impact Category, the 2017 Best European Current Affairs Program at the Prix Europa ; the 2015 DIG Award , the European investigative documentary of the year. He is part of the 2018 Top 5 nominations for the Prix Europa of the European Journalist of the Year. He is among the 2015, 2017, 2022, 2023 and 2024 finalists of the Albert Londres Prize , the highest French journalistic distinction. He
403-718: The European Broadcast Alliance partners. The Planet Killers documentary series tells the pursuit of the most wanted environmental criminals, aimed by Interpol red notices , their hunt by the authorities, investigating their international network and describing the major consequences of their crimes on the planet. Planet Killers is an unprecedented and exclusive dive into the Interpol Environmental Crimes Unit. • Green Warriors: The Toxic Legacy of Warfare , co-directed with Mathilde Cusin, 52 minutes, 2024, broadcast on France 5. For
434-556: The German pharmaceuticals company Bayer . • Toxic, nos enfants en danger, with Antoine Dreyfus, éditions La Découverte, 2016. An investigation about the harmful chemicals impacting the health of children. France 5 France 5 ( French: [fʁɑ̃s sɛ̃k] ) is a French free-to-air public television channel, part of the France Télévisions group. Principally featuring nonfiction and educational programming,
465-559: The attention of the Polish government. This documentary has received the "Green Impact of The Year" at the World Congress of Science, International Series Award at the Cine-Eco Film Festival In Portugal and the "One Hour Film Mention" of the "Festival International du Film d'Environnement" • World's Most Wanted : Mogilevich, The Russian Mafia Boss , 50 minutes, 2020, Netflix . An investigation about
496-438: The channel's motto is la chaîne de la connaissance et du savoir (the knowledge network). In contrast to the group's two main channels, France 2 and France 3 , France 5 concentrates almost exclusively on factual programming, documentaries, and discussions – 3,925 hours of documentaries were broadcast in 2003 – with fiction confined to one primetime slot of around two hours' duration on Monday evenings. France 5 airs 24 hours
527-635: The coal pollution in the air. Every year, 500,000 Europeans die prematurely due to air pollution. In Poland, nearly 75% of electricity is produced from coal. Rybnik, Poland, is one of the most polluted cities in Europe. The Green Warriors team cooperates with Tim Nawrot from the Hassel University to reveal that children here have 425% more black carbon in their bodies than children in Strasbourg. It made headlines across Europe and even attracted
558-522: The defense of Julio Grassi. The documentary won the 2017 best European Current Affair Program at the Prix Europa . Thanks to this documentary, Martin Boudot was among the 2017 finalists of the Albert Londres Prize . • Toxic Chemicals, Kids in Danger , 120 minutes, 2016. An investigation on the pesticides effects on children's health broadcast on France 2 in the investigative magazine Cash Investigation . 3,1 millions people watched it. The documentary
589-530: The delivery weapons to Ukraine, from the production in Europe to their reception in Ukraine. In the shadows, unscrupulous intermediaries are taking advantage of this historic situation. The specter of arms trafficking in Ukraine has also become the cornerstone of Russian propaganda, seeking to frighten the countries that support the government of Volodymyr Zelensky . • Planet Killers , 4X52 minutes, co-directed with Hugo Van Offel, 2023, broadcast on France 5 and on
620-725: The gold mining waste in Johannesburg , South Africa. Confronted to the soil, water, animal hair and human hair samples made by the Green Warriors team, the National Institute For Occupational Health of South Africa called the results "unbelievable" and promised to intervene. The documentary was nominated at the 2019 Figra Festival. • Green Warriors : Indonesia, The World's Most Polluted River, 52 minutes, 2017 , broadcast on France 5 , Al-Jazeera , Amazon Prime Video , Deutsche Welle , HRT , RTV , RTP . A scientific investigation about
651-472: The health of its employees. • Green Warriors: Forever Chemicals , 52 minutes, 2022, broadcast on France 5. This scientific investigation along with Dutch and French scientists helped change the law and regulations in France about the PFAS pollution in the country. • Green Warriors: Children of Lead , 52 minutes, 2022, broadcast on France 5. With the help of scientists, Martin Boudot and his team investigated
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#1732779533701682-417: The help of American and European scientists, The Green Warriors teams spent a year investigating the dangers posed by flame retardants , toxic chemicals used in furnitures. They took took dozens of samples across France to measure firefighters’ contamination with flame retardants. But this investigation goes beyond the case of firefighters alone: they discovered how these toxic flame retardants are leaching into
713-534: The help of scientists. After the broadcast, the French government announced a new study to quantify the precise number of school affectred by asbestos. The results had an unprecedented impact, resonating as far away as Kazakhstan, where unprecedented analyses were carried out by Martin Boudot and his team. • Green Warriors: Paris Metro, Air Alert , 52 minutes, 2023, co-directed with Mathilde Cusin, broadcast on France 5. The Green Warriors team spent eight months measuring
744-505: The hunt for Semion Mogilevich , a Ukrainian-born Russian organised crime boss. He is described by agencies across the globe as the “boss of bosses” of most Russian Mafia syndicates in the world, and the FBI has called him “the most dangerous mobster in the world”. • Green Warriors: Paraguay, Poisoned Fields , 52 minutes, 2019, broadcast on France 5 , Al-Jazeera , Amazon Prime Video , HRT , TVN , VRT etc. A scientific investigation about
775-665: The impacts of the soy industry in Paraguay. The Green Warriors team partnered with Dr. Stela Benitez] to investigate about the potential DNA damages of children living next to the soy fields, exposed to pesticides sprayings. Their findings made the headlines of the Paraguayan media and was discussed by the Senate. In May 2021, the lobby of the meat industry in Paraguay tried to stop the broadcast of this documentary. For this documentary, Martin Boudot and his cameraman Mathias Denizo won
806-756: The lead pollution in Cerro de Pasco , Peru and in Évin-Malmaison , France. Their findings in children's hair, the soil and the vegetables made the French government to initiate a saturnism screening of 7500 kids around the former lead smelter factory of MetalEurope. The documentary received the Best Environmental Film at the Barcelona Human Right Film Festival. • Green Warriors: Coal in the Lungs, 52 minutes, 2021, broadcast on France 5 . A scientific investigation about
837-550: The levels of heavy metals and particles in the air of the Parisian underground network and the outskirts in 332 metro and RER stations. Their investigation had an unprecedented impact: the RATP announced that it was implementing an air quality assessment system for its network and a modernized ventilation system to allow for better air renewal. The RATP has also signed a new epidemiological study with Santé Publique France to investigate
868-1475: The pollution of the Citarum river by the textile industry. Confronted to the water, rice and hair samples made by the Green Warriors team, the Indonesian authorities declared that they were to change the controls of the textile waste industry. The documentary has won the Green Image Award at the Green Film Festival in Japan, the "Prix du Jury" at the Green Film Festival in Switzerland, The AgriSciences Life Science Film Festival award in Czech Republic. It has been nominated to Naturvision in Germany, International Nature Film Festival in Hungary, Mataslu Nature Film Festival in Estonia, Ekotopfilm in Slovakia, Green Montenegro International Film Festival, Montenegro. • Church : Code of Silence , 120 minutes, 2017. A documentary for Cash Investigation about covered-up of pedophilia abusers within
899-437: The toys, environment and drinking water. • Green Warriors: Asbestos, Our Sick Schools , 52 minutes, 2024, co-directed with Mathilde Cusin, broadcast on France 5 . For a year, the Green Warriors team investigated the number of schools in France still containing asbestos , contacting 50,000 schools and 35,000 mayors’ offices. Dozens of samples were then taken in some of these establishments to measure asbestos contamination, with
930-496: The year at the 2015 DIG Award . Thanks to this documentary, Martin Boudot was among the 2015 finalists of the Albert Londres Prize . The documentary also won "Le Grand Prix Gilles Jacquier ". • Send In the Clowns , a 90 minutes documentary about the power of humor, broadcast on Canal+ . • China: the New Dissidents , a 52 minutes documentary about chinese artists censored by the authorities. • Football business ,
961-614: Was selected and screened at the One Earth Festival , the We Love Green festival and received an award at the Deauville Green Awards. • The Real Price of your Mobile Phone , 120 minutes, 2014. Broadcast on French public national TV France 2, in the investigative magazine Cash Investigation , on November 4 with 3.6 million viewers. The documentary was the European investigative documentary of