Cyril Dion is a French lecturer, writer, director, poet and environmental activist. He was born on 23 July 1978 in Poissy.
After an initial training in foot reflexology, three years of study at the Jean-Périmony School of Dramatic Art and a very short career as an actor, Cyril Dion founded the "Colibris" movement, an ecologist association that fights for an energy transition and for the protection of the environment, with the writer and farmer Pierre Rabhi.
Cyril Dion co-directs with Mélanie Laurent the film "Demain", released in the cinema on 2 December 2015. The film identifies several ecological practices to face environmental challenges in different countries by evoking the possibility of a better world, more ecological, economic and social, through the contribution of each individual on Earth. The film won several awards including the César for best documentary film in 2016, and was a huge popular success.
In 2017 he published his first novel Imago which revisits the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and wins the Mediterranean Prize for First Novel.
In 2018 he directed "Après Demain" with Laure Nouhalat for France 2, which analyses the impact of the film Demain. The same year he published Small manual of contemporary resistanceIn the same year, he published the book "After Tomorrow", in which he discusses his fight against global warming and for the preservation of biodiversity.
In 2019 he starts shooting his new film "Animal" which will be released in early 2021.
