Sur les traces du renard

The story begins with the search for a location. Our brief was to find the most beautiful place in Europe where foxes could be filmed in the wild…The place we found was the stunning Abruzzi National Park in Italy. The next challenge was to capture outstanding, striking, beautiful, unusual, even inspirational footage of foxes in this fairytale woodland setting, teeming with wildlife. We set up the cameras for a first night of waiting. Suddenly he was there – a magnificent dog-fox with a superb winter pelt. Time stood still, hanging by a thread, for this magic moment: the shyest of all forest animals, famous for eluding all the traps set for him by man, padded steadily towards us, not even pausing in his step. That enchanted night was the starting-point for a highly unusual relationship. We were to spend five months gaining the trust of this particular fox and filming episodes in his life, watching him, tracking him, losing his trace and finding him again. We spent whole days observing the life of the forest and the animals who live there and exploring the fascinating, complex lifestyle of the fox