La Course destination monde

La Course destination monde is a Canadian reality competition television series, which aired on Télévision de Radio-Canada from 1988 to 1999. The series was a filmmaking competition which sent young emerging filmmakers from Quebec around the world to make short films about their destinations, with prizes awarded at the conclusion of each season to the best films coming out of the competition.^[1]

La Course destination monde
Also known as	La Course des Amériques La Course Amérique-Afrique La Course Europe-Asie
Genre	Reality competition travel
Presented by	Michel Désautels
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	French
No. of series	11
Production
Production company	Société Radio-Canada
Original release
Network	Télévision de Radio-Canada
Release	8 October 1988 (1988-10-08) – 11 April 1999 (1999-04-11)
Related
La Course autour du monde Le Grand Raid Le Cap Terre de Feu

The series was inspired by the prior French series La Course autour du monde [fr] and Le Grand Raid Le Cap Terre de Feu.

The show premiered in 1988 as La Course des Amériques, sending filmmakers to destinations in North and South America.^[2] The second season, La Course Amérique-Afrique, continued to highlight destinations in the Americas as well as opening to destinations in Africa, while the third season, La Course Europe-Asie, centred on destinations in Europe and Asia. From the fourth season onward, the show was titled La Course destination monde, and permitted filmmakers to travel to anywhere in the world.

Many of the participants in the series have gone on to noteworthy careers in Quebec's media and arts industries, although not all as film directors.^[3]

Participants

1988–1989

• Prize winners: Catherine Fol (winner), Étienne de Massy (2nd), Nathalie Goulet (3rd)^[4]
• Other competitors: Romain Alarie, Claude Dallaire, Stéphane Laporte, Yves Munn, Allan Quinn

1989–1990

• Prize winners: Stéphane Drolet (winner), Marc Cayer (2nd), Anne-Marie Poulin (3rd)^[5]
• Other competitors: François Colas, François Dagenais, Hugues Dufour, André Gariépy, Jean-Robert Morin

1990–1991

• Prize winners: Denis Villeneuve (winner), Brigitte Nadeau (2nd), Patrick Masbourian (3rd)^[6]
• Other competitors: Sébastien Bage, Sabrina Berreghis, Bruno Boulianne, Karina Goma, Stéphane Thibault

1991–1992

• Prize winners: Marie-Claude Harvey (winner), Marc Forget (2nd), Sophie Lambert (3rd), Gérald Gilbert ^[7]
• Other competitors: Jennifer Alleyn, Jacques Blondin, Sophia Borovchyk, Louis-Perpinan Huard

1992–1993

• Prize winner: Philippe Falardeau (winner), Patrick Demers (2nd), Manuel Foglia (3rd)^[8]
• Other competitors: Sophie Bolduc, Simon Dallaire, Pierre Deslandes, Violaine Gagnon, Marc Roberge

1993–1994

• Prize winners: Guy Nantel (winner), Marie-France Bojanowski (2nd), Catherine Rondeau (3rd)^[9]
• Other competitors: Marie-Julie Dallaire, Isabelle Leblanc, Chloé Mercier, Félix Nguyen, Stéphane Prévost

1994–1995

• Winners: François Prévost, Ricardo Trogi (joint 1st)^[10]
• Other competitors: Hugo Latulippe, Étienne Leblanc, Emmanuelle Morris Waters, François Parenteau, Brunhilde Pradier, Robert Victor

1995–1996

• Winner: Philippe Desrosiers^[11]
• Other competitors: Jean-François Coulombe, Patrick Brunette, Manon Dauphinais, Linda Lamarche, Stéphane Lapointe, Nathalie Martin, Marie-Noëlle Swiderski

1996–1997

• Martin Bourgault, Pascal Brouard, Anne-Marie Cadieux, Danic Champoux, Antoine Laprise, Judith Provencher d'Assylva, Pascal Sanchez, Alexis Turgeon

1997–1998

• Robin Aubert, Meissoon Azzaria, Dominic Desjardins, Nicolas Desrosiers, Yves-Christian Fournier, Myriam Fréchette, Robin McKenna, François Péloquin

1998–1999

• Prize winners: Maryse Legagneur (winner), Martin Fournier (2nd), Mélanie Tardif (3rd)
• Other competitors: Isabelle Boulanger, Nathalie Cloutier, Valérie Galarneau, Catherine-Isabelle Giasson, Frédéric Gieling

Legacy

The series inspired the English Canadian series Road Movies,^[12] and the Australian series Race Around the World.^[13]

Ricardo Trogi's participation in the 1994–95 season of the series is dramatized in his 2024 film 1995, the fourth in his semi-autobiographical series of films starring Jean-Carl Boucher as a fictionalized version of Trogi.^[14]