Mona Lisa Production
3 et 4 Place Chazette
69001 Lyon
France
+33 (0)4 78 39 04 04
+33 (0)4 78 29 09 47
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www.monalisa-prod.com
Pierre-François Gaudry
Producteur, réalisateur
Thierry Berrod
Producteur - Réalisateur
Pierre Cressent
Chargé de production
Created in 1991, Mona Lisa Productions started gaining recognition year after year by initiating a new kind of storytelling in natural history, introducing science and ethnozoology in wildlife films, and exploring new themes such as the microscopic world.
Innovation, originality and quality are the key words of Mona Lisa Productions staff. Research and development is also part of the company's efforts to explore new filming techniques. Such R&D allowed Mona Lisa to hold a patent on state-of-the-art shooting technology using the Philips ESEM (environmental scanning electron microscope) to show living creatures of the invisible world as never before.
Today, Mona Lisa Productions continues its successfull strategy and develops new projects in the field of science, discovery, wildlife, exploration and adventure.
produced films
Life on Us
There are still unexplored planets in our Solar System - strange worlds of bizarre creatures locked in a fight for survival. These unknown worlds are you and me. Each one of us is a walking ecosystem...
Urine Superpowers
Many of us are oblivious to the fact that our first months of life were actually spent swimming in urine. Indeed, the amniotic sac is made up of 80% urine, from the fetus and on average, the fetus...
Bye bye ginea pig?
With the development of alternative methods, the use of animal testing has been declining over the past twenty years. But will scientific research be able to stop using animal testing one day?
Life in Hell - Survivors of Darkness
In these environments, micro-organisms rule. Certain animals have strange adaptations such as skin that is totally white or even transparent. Others are blind. Scientists are studying how these...
Life in hell - survivors of salt and acid
Some species are perfectly adapted to live in conditions that would be lethal to the vast majority of other organisms. Scientists have baptized them extremophiles, that love extreme...
Bees Extinction, solving the Mystery
This gripping film is conceived like a police investigation, aiming at unfolding a criminal mystery. Here, the inquiry is about the bees that are vanishing from the face of the planet. It is a...
Stone age artists - the magdalenian masters
The inception of art in prehistoric times is a much debated issue. Some believe it coincides with a revolution of the mind, which is thought to have started about 40,000 years ago, others think it is...
The Outer Adventure - From Baby to Kiss
When a mother looks in wonder at her newborn child, little does she imagine that fifteen years later her tiny one will have turned into a rebellious teenager, defending his or her ideas with...
Aliens of the Amazon - Treehoppers
Man has explored all the continents, but life remains full of mysteries... In the very heart of the rainforest, some creatures seem coming straight out of a science fiction movie. They are...
Sentinel Animals
Certain animal species possess surprising physiological faculties in front of pollutions or in the announcement of an imminent natural disaster. Their instinct or their physiology, their nearness...
Squatters
Insects and parasites are certainly the most amazing and ubiquitous creatures on Earth. Some are attractive, others repugnant, but all have a more or less direct and immediate impact on our...
Vanuatu, islands of pigs
In the middle of the Pacific, on the islands of Vanuatu, people like an animal… Sacred stones honorits memory, drums announce its presence, dances, singings celebrate its value, it embodies the...
A cockroach in my cupboard
Get ready to get acquainted with amazing fellows... Most often, they pass unnoticed. These aliens inhabit our lives and inhabit our beds, our closets... They are amazing creatures and look like...
Homo Delphinus
How close are dolphins to mankind? The dolphin is one of the world’s oldest mammals. Since antiquity, the dolphin has been a source of fascination for humans, by virtue of its behaviour and its...
The Fabulous Story of poop
80% of the world population live in the middle of excrement, and 0,00001% in the middle of roses. In France alone, half a million people work directly or indirectly in the recycling, evacuation or...
Charisma in Politics, the body language of politicians
Spontaneous or carefully rehearsed expressions, consistent or disorganized gestures, defiant or receptive postures. Such are the little signs that tell us a great deal about our political leaders and...
Journey into troubled waters
Almost inaccessible, the swamp of Kaw, French Guiana is a gigantic open-air laboratory: rich of an extraordinary biodiversity, it is the last sanctuary of Black Caiman, the paradise of rare birds,...
Humanimal, the Animal Mind : wolf
For centuries, the animal world and the human world have been carefully kept separate. Humans once considered themselves to be at the summit of intelligence and sensitivity, denying "beasts" all...
In the beginning was the mud
Water and mud are probably the most conducive fields for life to emerge. It is from micro-organisms that life can develop, as it began to take shape four billion years ago. To understand the...
Face to face with our ancestors
Man in the 21st century has great questions to answer: the origins of the universe, the origins of life on Earth, and the origins of mankind. All three have stood the test of time. Science is taking...
Bacterialand
The power of bacteria seems unlimited! Scientists discovered in Antarctica colonies of bacteria prospering in a temperature of -68°C, conditions comparable to those on Mars. These bacteria...
From kiss to baby
How far can we go back in the observation of the birth of life? At what level of detail of science and modern technologies canwe access? It starts with hormone chemical messages (testosterone,...
Under the sign of the snake
Xavier Bonnet was born “under the sign of the snake”. A herpetologist of international renown, he travels the world seeking to discover the secrets of reptiles. Fascinated by their survival...