Sand Wars

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Sand Wars
Directed by	Denis Delestrac
Written by	Denis Delestrac
Produced by	Guillaume Rappeneau Laurent Mini Nathalie Barton
Narrated by	Trevor Hayes
Cinematography	Marc Martinez Alam Raja
Edited by	Michelle Hollander Seamus Haley Ibon Olaskoaga
Music by	Jean-Sébastien Robitaille
Production company	ARTE France
Distributed by	PBS International Green Planet Films
Release date	May 20, 2013 (2013-05-20)
Running time	75 minutes
Countries	France Canada
Languages	English French

Sand Wars is a documentary by director Denis Delestrac and produced by Rappi Productions, La Compagnie des Taxi-Brousse, InfomAction, Arte France, with the support of The Santa Aguila Foundation.

The film premiered at the Cinéma Publicis on the Champs-Elysées in 2013 and was first broadcast in May in France and Germany (Arte), where it became the highest rated documentary for 2013.^[1] A Gold Panda Award winner, Sand Wars is distributed worldwide by PBS International.

Among many other outreach victories, the film inspired the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to publish a Global Environmental Alert in March 2014 titled "Sand, rarer than one thinks".^[2]