Movie theater. [Interview] “Popular education is a powerful process”

Why did you want to film young people from a lycée in Villepinte in their investigation of EuropaCity, this project, now partly abandoned, which involved the urbanization of 280 ha among the last particularly fertile farmland of the Island? -of France ?

Geoffrey Couanon : I am a director, but also an educator and animator in the suburbs, where I work in particular with “De Deux Choses Lune”, an association for popular education and awareness of agroecological issues through the creation of documentary films. During workshops that I conducted in Seine-Saint-Denis and in Val-d’Oise, the subject of this gigantic leisure and trade park was broached and I realized that young people did not have it for …

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