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Alexandre Dereims

Alexandre Dereims is a French journalist and a documentary filmmaker.

His documentaries have been broadcasted on Arte, France Télévisions, Canal Plus, Planete, SVT, TSR, TVE, YLE, RTV, ABC, KBS, RTF…..

In 2007, he won the International Red Cross Award in Monte-Carlo Television Festival for A secret genocide, a documentary about the plight of the Karen people in Myanmar.

In 2009, he won the Albert Londres award in France for Han, the price of freedom and the Golden Nymph for Best Documentary in Monte-Carlo Television Festival for Escaping North Korea, two documentaries filmed secretly with the North-Korean defectors in their escape to Seoul through China and South-East Asia.

In 2010 and 2011, he filmed the African migrants on their way to Europe, through the Tenere desert and during the Arab Spring in Egypt and in Libya. The documentary « Another Life » , was selected at the Al Jazeera Festival and IDFA.

From 2012, teaming with Claire Beilvert, a producer and a press photographer, he’s currently working on a feature documentary filmed with the Jarawa people in the Andamans Island in India. They are the first journalists to have ever interviewed the Jarawa to give them a voice.

Han the price of freedom

Every month hundreds of desperate people attempt to flee North Korea, one of the worst dictatorships in the world. They risk their lives trying to escape unnoticed into South Korea. But crossing directly into South Korea is impossible. The border is impenetrable. It is the DMZ, a no-man’s-land 248 kilometers long and 4 kilometers wide through which the armies of the two sister nations have been facing off for the past 50 years. For those who want to escape the only way out is the route north into China, through that country and on to Laos. A 5000 kilometers journey through Asia. If they’re caught they are sent back to North Korea where they face tortures and executions. The refugees try to reach Thailand, the only country in south east Asia that will allow North Koreans to travel on to Seoul. Only one on two refugees makes their way to Seoul. They are 300 000 North Korean refugees hiding in China and only 15000 in South Korea. Once in the South, the North Koreans are discriminated and they feel into despair. Some of them even commit suicide. They are free but rootless and desperately alone with their memories.

Han, the price of Freedom is long-year filmed documentary in South Korea, China and Thailand inquiring the fate of the North Koreans that risk everything to be free.

Another Life

Time was when Gaddafi had become our friend. He shook hands with Berlusconi of Italy and Blair of Britain. We’d been warned several times. Millions of Africans were going to invade us. Europe would become Muslim. Only he could intervene. He asked for one billion euros a year to halt the invasion. The Italians were the first to react. They signed a pact of friendship with the ‘Leader of the Revolution’, five billion euros to be paid to Libya over 25 years as compensation for the colonial period. The agreement also contained a clause about immigration. The Libyans promised to contain and turn back migrants trying to sail for Europe. Yet thousands of African dream of a better life trying over and over again to sail from Libya. They are fleeing poverty, war and dictatorship and they are willing to risk their lives by crossing the Ténéré desert. Another is two years-long filmed documentary in Niger, Lybia, Tunisia, Egypt, Greece, Italy and France with the African migrants on their way to Europe.

Organic the Jarawas

The Jarawa

Who are the Jarawa ?

The Jarawa are the last descendants of the first modern humans. They left Africa to explore the world 70,000 years ago. There are no more than 420 of them. They live in groups of about 50 individuals. The Jarawa are one of the last Afro-Asian peoples of the Andaman Islands in India. They are pygmies. They lead a hunter–gatherer lifestyle, and lived in complete isolation for tens of thousands of years. They are semi-nomadic. Their diet consists mainly of wild pigs, turtles, crabs and fish that they catch with bows and arrows in coral reefs. They also collect fruits, roots, tubers and honey. Very little is known about the history of the Jarawa. Their hostility to the outside world has preserved them, but almost no one has been able to study their language and culture.

Where do the jarawa live?

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, in the Indian Ocean, are a union territory of India. Port Blair is the territory’s administrative capital and largest city. The archipelago consists of 204 islands (38 of which are inhabited) between the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea, about 200 km south of Myanmar (Burma). The islands have 314,239 Indian inhabitants and 420 Jarawa. The Andaman Islands are home to the last Afro-Asian peoples in the world. Some of these peoples, such as the Great Andamanese, have disappeared. Others, such as the Onge, are almost extinct. Only the Jarawa and the Sentinelese have managed to resist and preserve their way of life. The largest island is called Great Andaman. It is 250 km long. The Jarawa live in the southern and central part of the island. Their territory is 115 km long and 10 to 20 km wide. Access to the area by land or by sea is completely forbidden. Indian forest rangers constantly patrol their territory, aircraft fly over it and police vessels cruise off the shores of their beaches. Any intrusion is punishable by a prison sentence. Yet, a road cuts through their territory.

The andaman trunk road : an imminent threat

In the 70s, the Andaman Trunk Road was built on the Jarawa’s territory. It connects Port Blair, the capital, to Diglipur, the northernmost town on Great Andaman. It cuts through their forest. In late 1997, for the first time, several Jarawa left their territory to visit Indian villages. Up to that time, they had attacked the vehicles that took the road. Since then, a peculiar sort of tourism has developed along this road. Military convoys take the road twice a day, on round-trips. They secure dozens of cars loaded with tourists who hope to take some pictures of the Jarawa: a veritable human zoo. Alexandre Dereims and Claire Beilvert have personally witnessed it. We saw Indian forest rangers force Jarawa families into a trolley along the route so that tourists could take pictures of them. This scandal was revealed by Gethin Chamberlain, a journalist for the Guardian who posted a video filmed by an Indian police officer on behalf of a tourist. He encourages the Jarawa to dance in exchange for food. The Indian police officer was briefly jailed. On 21 January 2013, a bench of justices (GS Singhvi and HL Gokhale) passed an order forbidding tourists to take this road. But a petition for its reopening was filed on behalf of the local population, who stated that the Andaman Trunk Road was vital to the economy of the archipelago. On 5 March 2013, the Supreme Court of India revised the order and allowed the road to be reopened. Since then , human safaris photo have resumed . In 2015, the government of Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi expressed a desire to hasten the development of the Andaman Islands to upgrade military facilities and promote trade and tourism. The Jarawa are directly threatened. Andaman MP Bishnu Pada Ray wants to widen the Andaman Trunk Road. Works will take months and will seriously affect the Jarawa.

Others dangers that the jarawa face

In the last four years, the situation has worsened. Their way of life has gradually begun to change. The Jarawa have started wearing clothes and chewing betel nuts. Indian forest rangers have given them tools, torches with batteries, soap, pots and pans, and foods such as rice. In 2014, several Jarawa women were abducted and raped by Indians. Lately, poachers have been offering them tobacco and alcohol but also money in exchange for game. Game meat supplies a black market on Great Andaman. When the Jarawa run out of game, they will have no choice but to leave their territory to beg for food, and this will be their end. Therefore, despite having previously refused practically all contact with our world, in 2013 and 2014, they left their territory on multiple occasions to complain to forest rangers about the presence of poachers. But the Indian authorities did not listen to them. Local authorities, the Indian Ministry of Tribal Affairs, the AAJVS (a government organization responsible for the security of the Jarawa) and Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Mr AK Singh are direct accomplices as they are failing to take all the necessary measures to protect the Jarawa. In 2012, Andaman MP Bishnu Pada Ray stated that the Jarawa wanted to give up their way of life and join the Indian community. But no one had asked them for their opinion. Therefore, as journalists, Alexandre Dereims and Claire Beilvert decided to bypass the ban on meeting with them and give them a chance to speak.

The filming of the Documentary

Between 2012 and 2015, Alexandre Dereims and Claire Beilvert met the Jarawa several times to film and interview them. The Jarawa told them that they are threatened by poaching. Although their territory is totally closed by the Indian army, dozens of poachers hunt their game with impunity. Soon, the Jarawa will no longer have anything to eat. The Indian authorities are denying them the right for self-determination. Few months after the last time they met them, they informed the Indian Authority about their documentary and the Jarawa ‘s call for self-determination. Then, the Indian press published defamatory articles and spread a hate campaign against the director and the producer of the documentary on the social media. They’ve been accused of transmitting diseases to the Jarawas and changing their way of life. The Jarawa are vulnerable to viruses, even the most innocuous, such as influenza and measles. Of course, the journalists took every precaution to keep from transmitting diseases to them. For more than ten years, Indian forest rangers have been giving them food, cakes, rice, tools, torches with batteries and soap . The Andaman police raided the Jarawa’s territory with armed guards to force them to denounce the journalists.The police arrested 25 people from the Karen community, beaten them to force them to admit they helped the journalists. The police couldn’t find any evidence. After a month behind bars, the Karen people have been release without any charges.

As for Alexandre Dereims and Claire Beilvert, they never disclose any information about the people who helped them during their investigation. They never confirm or invalidate any of the accusations which have been made against the Karen people. They replied to the accusations made by the Indian press with a statement made in collaboration with Reporters without Borders.

In February 2016, with Claire Beilvert, he launched an outreach campaign and a petition to close the Andaman Truck Road which runs through the Jarawa’s territory, where human photo safaris occur every day during the tourist season in the Andaman islands. The petition is addressed to Prime Minister of India Mr Narendra Damodardas Modi, Indian Minister of Tribal Affairs Mr Shri Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava, AAJVS President Mr Nabanita Ganguly and Lieutenant Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Mr Ajay Kumar Singh.

The documentary Organic The Jarawa is on post-production. The release is set for 2017.