For the past fourteen years Sylvain Pascaud has served as managing director, executive producer and expedition leader of Libre comme l’Air (LCL) Production, a documentary film production company specialized in adventure, science and technology. He started his career at the French marine institute Ifremer on board the research submarine The Nautile, quickly moving on to the Cousteau Society, where he worked on expeditions on The Calypso. After working as an underwater cameraman and commercial diver, he began producing and directing films and TV series and managing expeditions. To date he has over 75 documentaries to his name, many of them aired worldwide on such prestigious venues as Discovery Channel, Channel 4, National Geographic, ARD, France Television, NHK, and many others.
Highlights of his career include organizing with Canal Plus Group and the Discovery channel, the Titanic 96 expedition, the first scientific investigation to understand what happened to the structure of the great ship. The three-part series Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster was aired worldwide.
Sylvain Pascaud was appointed project manager by Airbus to produce an international television series (2003 / 2009) on the design, construction, flight test and delivery of the world’s largest commercial airliner, the Airbus 380.
Sylvain was also instrumental in several phases of the search of AF 447 Flight the doomed Rio to Paris flight which disappeared for more than 600 days in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and managed the final phase of the search project that resulted in finding the debris field in 2011.
He then moved on as project manager and expedition leader for DDAY’s sunken secrets, a two-month underwater expedition to survey and study D-Day wrecks off the coast of Normandy. This project was also a tribute to veterans for the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landing in 2014. D-Day. The documentary film made from the expedition featured 3D reconstruction of D-Day wrecks and of the Mulberry Harbor was aired in 20 countries worldwide.
More recently Sylvain has been involved with the video coverage and media outreach of the E FAN electric plane project with Airbus group which featured the cross-channel crossing in 2015.
Pascaud is now developing with Airbus and high profile scientific institutions the Airbridge for science project, a unique endeavor to support cutting edge science on location with the most advanced technology flying today.
