From Glénan to Norway, this young backpacker from the Pays d’Auray wants to write an extraordinary screenplay – Auray

Hat tight on her head, On a icy Friday in February, the picture-savvy britchell, Lupine Le Mélinere, has a grin. Barely back from the other side of the globe, he is already seeing right in front of him. On the programme, an “extraordinary movie script”, written in the mountains, underwater or the stars, takes him out of his “comfort zone”.

At twenty, this wasn’t his first attempt. Two months ago, the budding filmmaker was roaming more than 20,000 km from his home port of Tolchinanit. The young New Zealander discovered his camera and microphone in his bag. “At first, I wanted to see something else and learn English because I was a ball,” he laughs.

“Little Jurassic Park”

After finding some precarious translations on the Internet, he left the capital Wellington and embarked on a road trip in a van to the south of the island: Christchurch, Lake Tekapo (classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site), a ‘star reserve’. Then Timaru and Umaru, the Penguin Temples. before settling down for four months in Milford Sound. There he works in the “only coffee shop in the fjord”. The nearest town was over 120 km away. It was like a little Jurassic Park,” he recalls.

I wanted to share this very wild, collective and mysterious place because it is full of legends and marine animals unknown to the general public.

This is also the name of his eighteen-minute documentary, available on Youtube, which he shot on the spot. Three photos for three points of view. “I wanted to tell and share about this very wild, collective and mysterious place because it is full of legends and marine animals unknown to the general public.”

It is now impossible to stop there. “I stung. This trip changed me. I always want to see more,” admits the self-imagining already. In mid-March, Lubin Le Mélinaire will fly to Norway, the first stage of his new project: making a documentary about the process of creating a screenplay. “I want to show how we can be inspired by our surroundings by putting ourselves in the shoes of the artist.”

Norway, Glenans and Arij

The agenda is set. After the Northern Lights, return to Brittany, possibly to Glenan, to write the abstract “20 Meters Under Water”. Then he headed to Ariège, in the Grotte de Lombrives where he would stay for a month. “My business is more than the sea.” the last step ? In bivouac at the foot of the mountain in June.

To finance his equipment rental, the young adventurer created a cat on the Internet. He has already earned more than 600 euros out of the 2,000 expected. Upon his return, Lubin Le Mélinaire would present his work to Alréens, “in the hope that the film might be made one day”.