**Hi, we’re Yannick and Gabrielle, a sheep farmer and a filmmaker. We worked together on the documentary ‘Death of a Farmer,’ which tells the story of how a 2017 routine farm inspection in France ended with the French police shooting dead a farmer. It tries to uncover why this tragedy happened, whilst also highlighting the plight of the French agricultural sector. You can see it here:** [https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/094498-000-A/death-of-a-farmer/](https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/094498-000-A/death-of-a-farmer/)**. Ask us anything!**
**‘Dearth of A Farmer’** (“Sacrifice Paysan”) is about an event that occurred on May 21st, 2017: Jérôme Laronze, a 37-year-old cattle farmer, was shot dead by the gendarmes as he drove towards them at the wheel of his car. The documentary investigates how a routine health check culminated with the death of a farmer. Through national news coverage and the testimonies of fellow farmers struggling with the bureaucratic system in France today, this rural thriller takes a deep dive into all the complexities of the agricultural world on the edge of the abyss.
**Yannick OGOR**
Yannick Ogor was born in Brest in the early 1970s. After studying Biology and Ecology, he became involved in the late 1990s as an employee of the Confédération Paysanne (Agricultural Federation) in Brittany. After 5 years he resigned over a political disagreement which he explained in his 2017 book, “The Impossible Peasant: A Story of Struggles”(“le paysan impossible – récit de luttes”).
In the meantime, and still in Brittany, he became a sheep farmer, carpenter and roofer. In 2014 he changed farms and became a market gardener while keeping a flock of sheep. During his years as a breeder he participated in many political struggles, including the one against the obligation to put electronic tags in the ears of sheep and goats. Since the murder of Jérôme Laronze in 2017, he has been involved in a collective of farmers who intend to oppose the administrative and industrial standards that make small farmers disappear and protect the industrial farming model.
**Gabrielle CULAND**
Gabrielle Culand grew up in the suburbs of Paris and then in New Caledonia, before returning to France to study cinema at the ESEC. She worked for 10 years for the television show “Tracks” broadcast on [ARTE.tv](http://arte.tv/), for which she created numerous episodes on alternative cultures. Filming for TRACKS took place in South Pacific, United States, Africa and around Europe. She then switched to making her own films. Her documentaries focus on the periphery in the geographical and symbolic sense of the term. She is interested in the margins, in those who live outside the norm, in rebels who, through their lifestyle or their discourse, question the way our society works.
Her work includes “Paris is Voguing” (a look at the arrival of a dance from the LGBT community of Harlem, in the French capital) and “I hear the first ring of my death”: a tribute to Sardasht Osman, a student from Iraqi Kurdistan, who was kidnapped on May 4, 2010 outside Salahaddin University in Erbil, where he was studying English. Two days later his body was found in the suburbs of Mosul.
Her 2022 documentary is called ‘Dearth of A Farmer’ (“Sacrifice Paysan).
**Watch on** [**ARTE**](http://arte.tv/)[.tv](http://arte.tv/): [https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/094498-000-A/death-of-a-farmer/](https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/094498-000-A/death-of-a-farmer/)
**Watch on YouTube (**[**ARTE.tv**](http://arte.tv/) **Documentary):** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkjJBm-\_GbQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkjJBm-_GbQ)
**Proof:**
[https://imgur.com/a/CwGfOJ5](https://imgur.com/a/CwGfOJ5)
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