Éric Valli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Éric Valli

French photographer and film director

Date of Birth: 21-Dec-1952

Place of Birth: Dijon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Profession: screenwriter, photographer, cinematographer, film director

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Éric Valli (born 1952, in Dijon, France) is a French photographer and film director. Valli specializes in mountain scenery and is an expert on the Himalaya Mountains, and in 1999 directed the adventure film Caravan about survival in the Himalayas starring Thinle Lhondup which became the first Nepalese film to be nominated for a Best Foreign Film Award at the Oscars. Valli has also shot a documentary with Diane Summers on the Honey hunters of Nepal documenting honey hunting by the Gurung tribesmen of west-central Nepal.
In it, they enter the jungle in search of wild honey where they use indigenous tools under precarious conditions to collect honey. Valli has received 3 World Press Awards for his work Chasseurs de Miel (1988), Chasseurs des Ténèbres (1991) and Les enfants de la poussière (1991).