- ABOUT -

  The Reportaz are films that are made to share ideas, travels, and meetings. This blog is here to make them available to everyone, for free and without limits of sharing. The will is, through them, to share the maximum of all that one can learn and meet during a trip, and to give the desire to those who look at them to leave for a tour and see by themselves what can be seen. If the reportaz were created in the movement, they must transmit it!

The Dude :

  Clément Elbaz was born in 1987 in Montauban. His childhood and teenage years were shared between this city, Bressols and Caussade, three charming but sufficiently calm places to give to the young man, very early on, the urge to travel.
  Having just entered adulthood, the lack of financial means reduced his escapes to watching a Czech music channel, in front of wich he enjoyed for hours the pleasure of not understanding anything. Then, in 2006, he flew from the small family nest and get a job in a warehouse, where he spent his breaks wondering where he could go to spend the money earned. Untill the day he received a phone call from a friend he hasn't seen for three years... this dude offered him a place in a fiat Punto (green), leaving for Hungary on the next day. It was his first adult trip and a crush on bitumen and elsewhere, which has since pushed him to visit nearly 60 countries. He's now a happy man.

The reason for all this :

  Clément Elbaz's first adult trips took place in the Balkans. With three friends in a punto or twelve buddies in a combi. Over the course of the meetings, he realized that the people of the countries he passed by were, for the overwhelming majority, very far from the prejudices that one can hear about them. Which, moreover, reinforces his idea that prejudices exist only to be contradicted... hearing them after his returns, therefore, was all the more unbearable; and that's where the idea of making films was born. To restore certain truths and show, without image effect and without makeup, what the trip allows to know and to see.

The birth of all this:

  So in January 2008, it was the time for the first solo trip around Europe! Two months of wandering between Faro, Odessa, Dublin and Istanbul, filming towns and interviewing people, quite simply by the chance of roads and encounters.
  Obviously, without any experience or training in editing, the result was perhaps, on the beginning, to documentary film what corned beef is to meat. But nevertheless the first reportaz (a report shot by Clément Elbaz...) came out. The personnal experience and the positive feedback were enough to trigger the motivation to continue the fimling practice. Always wishing to work alone, Clément Elbaz put some money aside and left his apartment in Toulouse to, in May 2010, leave to shoot his first series! Four months of travel through the West, the East and the Balkans. Four months spending an average of 6 hours a day in front of his computer to edit and share one film per week.
  Back home, after nine months living between Martinique, Montpellier and Toulouse, hop! New six-month epic trip around Central, Baltic and Nordic Europe. By hitchhiking, mainly, and begging money to get ahead. This time equipped with a better quality camera, the video editing was saved for later (apart from a few teasers). Therefore beautiful images and good time interviews were filmed, with the possibility of producing a much more careful post-trip editing. The release date is still pending.
  That's it for the little story... these films are made to serve as wide open gates to the other and the elsewhere, but also and above all as an additional basis for your own reflection on our neighbors, their neighbors, ourselves and so on... hoping that the Reportaz makes you want to mops... have a good trip!!!

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