Ghislaine Couvillat
- Producer
- Additional Crew
- Executive
Ghislaine Couvillat is a Producer and Managing Director at Whipped Sea, an independent production company based in France and operating globally.
Whipped Sea produces bold and cinematic feature length documentaries and docu-series, showcasing stories with strong cultural or human-interest themes. Whipped Sea films and series must challenge your preconceptions and inspire you to go on adventures to push the limits of your curiosity. With a love of universal topics beautifully filmed and storytelling that disrupts the status quo, astonishes, and captivates the widest possible audience, Whipped Sea's films also portray protagonists who push the physical, endurance and mental boundaries of humankind to the limit.
Whipped Sea is the production company behind "Savage Waters", a documentary film by Mikey Corker depicting how a crew of modern-day surf adventurers seek their fortune in some of the world's most savage waters. Whipped Sea is also a co-Producer of "Girls Can't Surf", a film by Christopher Nelius and the untold story of how a band of renegade surfer girls in the 1980s fought to create their own professional sport, changing surf culture forever which was selected at Tribeca in 2020 and screened in 2021. Whipped Sea also co-produced "La Quête du Sauvage", a freediving odyssey filmed in the Norwegian Great North by Jean-Charles Granjon with World Champion free diver Morgan Bourc'his.
Ghislaine Couvillat is also a Co-Executive Producer of "Adapted" by Paul Bikis, a beautiful feature-length documentary that shows how the right combination of nature, community, and challenge can heal trauma. Ghislaine is also an Executive Producer of "Against the Tides" by BAFTA-nominated Stefan Stuckert, a feature-length documentary that follows marathon swimmer and world record holder Beth French, as she sets out to conquer Oceans Seven, a challenge consisting of the seven most dangerous sea-channels in the world. Against the Tides was nominated for Best Documentary at Austin Film Festival and Marbella Film Festival, and it also won the Filmic Prize at the Nordic Adventure Film Festival in Copenhagen.
Whipped Sea produces bold and cinematic feature length documentaries and docu-series, showcasing stories with strong cultural or human-interest themes. Whipped Sea films and series must challenge your preconceptions and inspire you to go on adventures to push the limits of your curiosity. With a love of universal topics beautifully filmed and storytelling that disrupts the status quo, astonishes, and captivates the widest possible audience, Whipped Sea's films also portray protagonists who push the physical, endurance and mental boundaries of humankind to the limit.
Whipped Sea is the production company behind "Savage Waters", a documentary film by Mikey Corker depicting how a crew of modern-day surf adventurers seek their fortune in some of the world's most savage waters. Whipped Sea is also a co-Producer of "Girls Can't Surf", a film by Christopher Nelius and the untold story of how a band of renegade surfer girls in the 1980s fought to create their own professional sport, changing surf culture forever which was selected at Tribeca in 2020 and screened in 2021. Whipped Sea also co-produced "La Quête du Sauvage", a freediving odyssey filmed in the Norwegian Great North by Jean-Charles Granjon with World Champion free diver Morgan Bourc'his.
Ghislaine Couvillat is also a Co-Executive Producer of "Adapted" by Paul Bikis, a beautiful feature-length documentary that shows how the right combination of nature, community, and challenge can heal trauma. Ghislaine is also an Executive Producer of "Against the Tides" by BAFTA-nominated Stefan Stuckert, a feature-length documentary that follows marathon swimmer and world record holder Beth French, as she sets out to conquer Oceans Seven, a challenge consisting of the seven most dangerous sea-channels in the world. Against the Tides was nominated for Best Documentary at Austin Film Festival and Marbella Film Festival, and it also won the Filmic Prize at the Nordic Adventure Film Festival in Copenhagen.