Frederic Lepage

Frédéric Lepage is a French author, film writer and producer of several hundred programs and documentaries.

Frédéric Lepage is a best-selling author of novels such as La Fin du septième jour or La Mémoire interdite, published in numerous countries including France, Germany, Japan and Greece. He has also written essays on various subjects from science (Les Jumeaux: enquête) to gastronomy (A table avec Chirac) with a detour for an anthology of the world’s most beautiful prayers.

In 2008 he created a series of fiction books for children, Micah et les voix de la jungle, which at this writing has four volumes: Le Camp des éléphants, La Malédiction de Mara, Le Masque du serpent and Piège de sang. This series won several awards and literary prizes. There will be five volumes.

In March 2011 his novel Le Colloque des bonobos (Editions Balland) was published. This work asks the question: are chimpanzees and human genetically similar to the extent that they must be placed on the same evolutionary branch? The author imagined a conference organized to respond to the question. Experts from Africa debating the question are all… chimpanzees. They must decide if they will accept to become brothers to humans. This novel is based on scientific research validated by Sandrine Prat, paleontologist in charge of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research.

Frédéric Lepage began his career as a television writer and producer at TF1. Following a stint at Antenne 2, he created his own company XL Productions. The company quickly grew and was innovative notably in the domain of documentary films. The company produced a wide range of programming: giant concerts (Fête de la Musique for TF1), TV variety shows, literary magazines (Ex-Libris) or the game show Dessinez, c’est gagné. In 1990 the company launched the children’s program Disney Club with The Walt Disney Company. Later, Frédéric Lepage ran the documentary department of the Group Télé Images.

Frédéric Lepage makes his mark in the domain of large scale documentary series, such as in 1996 with Untamed Africa, a team effort with the director Laurent Frapat. This twelve-hour series, touted by reviewers, was a success in more than one hundred countries. Other Untamed followed, forming a cycle of close to sixty films and one of the biggest commercial successes in the domain of wildlife films: Untamed Amazonia, Untamed Australia, Untamed Asia, Untamed America.

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