Career
He is best known for creating feature documentaries on highly topical subjects, which have provoked public debate and gained large recognition internationally. Denis Delestrac made his debut in non-fiction filmmaking in 2001 and signed a dozen documentaries. Among his most recent credits are IMAX blockbuster "Mystery of the Nile" and the award-winning "Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space".
Selected in major international film festivals, the film reveals how space has become the newest arena for countries around the globe to launch their struggle for supremacy.
His feature documentary, “Sand Wars” is an epic eco-thriller that takes the audience around the globe to unveil a new gold rush and a disturbing fact: we are running out of sand. The film premiered at the legendary Cinéma Publicis on the Champs-Elysées in 2013 and was first broadcast in May in France and Germany (ARTE), where it became the highest rated documentary for 2013 with a 4.8 market share.
A passionate lecturer, Delestrac is devoted to sharing his expertise with students and professionals around the world. His documentary workshops and master-classes – focusing on international coproduction, development, funding and access – have been imparted in festivals and universities in France, Spain, Latin America, United States of America and Africa.
Delestrac resides in Barcelona and Paris.
Denis Delestrac is a graduate from the Toulouse Law School and he obtained a Master in Journalism at the University of Dallas. He made his first steps in journalism in the United States, as a photojournalist - and later as a writer - covering the South Central Los Angeles riots (1992), the Waco siege (1993) and the 1992 presidential elections. In 1999, he became chief editor of the famous Penthouse magazine (French edition), a position he quit a year later to make his first film.
In the last two decades, Delestrac has published in several North American and European publications like Le Monde.
Membre Sociétaire Stagiaire du collège audiovisuel de la Société Civile des Auteurs Multumédia.
