EXCLUSIVE: Cédric Klapisch’s Colours of Time, Anna Cazenave Cambet’s Love Me Tender, Louise Hémon’s characteristic debut The Lady within the Snow and Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Obscure have been among the movie winners on the twenty ninth American French Movie Competition in L.A. this yr.
The six-day pageant, which wrapped on November 3 on the DGA Theater Advanced, has awarded Colours of Time with its prestigious Viewers Award. The movie, which premiered in Cannes earlier this yr, tells the story of 4 cousins who inherit an outdated home in rural Normandy and retrace the steps of their ancestors in nineteenth century Paris.
The pageant’s Critics’ Award went to Love Me Tender, which sees Vicky Krieps play a lawyer who fights her ex-husband for custody of their son after beginning a brand new relationship. Nouvelle Obscure, Linkletter’s love letter to the French New Wave and Godard, picked up the American College students’ Award whereas Hémon’s directorial characteristic debut The Lady within the Snow, an 1899-set story that follows a younger girl’s arrival in a snowy hamlet on the sting of the Alps, picked up the pageant’s First Characteristic Award.
For tv, the pageant’s Viewers Collection Award went to The Deal, a six-part political drama a few Swiss diplomat in 2015 Geneva mediating U.S.-Iran nuclear talks whereas coping with an endangered Iranian engineer. Its Jury Collection Award went to Canal+ sequence The Sentinels, a WWI-set present that follows French Personal Gabriel who’s presumed useless however then chosen for a top-secret program, which includes him taking a serum that makes him stronger and sooner.
TAFFF’s TV Film Award went to drama Blessed Be Sixtine, which sees its important character, Sixtine, marry a violent Catholic fundamentalist. When he dies, she flees her in-laws and makes an attempt to rebuild her life.
TAFFF’s Quick Movie Award was given to Hugo Becker’s The Lifeline whereas the Documentary Award went to Linda Bendali’s Drugged and Abused: No Extra Disgrace, which focuses on the surprising rape trial of Gisèle Pelicot.
TAFFF Awards will happen in particular person at a particular ceremony in Paris on November 12. The pageant’s Creative Director François Truffart says it’s essential for the intimate occasion to happen within the French capital so that every one expertise could be current. “A few of our French delegates want to go away earlier than or simply after closing night time so it’s greatest to have the awards offered in Paris,” he stated. “It’s additionally nice to have a part of the French-American occasion happen in France with all of the individuals related to the winners.”
Truffart added that distributors use the award to advertise their movies and sequence within the U.S.
“For movies already acquired, it’s an extra accolade they will use for promotion,” he stated. “However for these nonetheless looking for distribution, it’s a super promoting level. For instance, final yr, The Marching Band gained the Viewers Award, which helped the movie achieve distribution. With The Rely of Monte Cristo, which gained the College students’ Award final yr, its distributor Samuel Goldwyn used it to assist achieve recognition from youthful audiences.”
TAFFF began its awards in 2006 with the Viewers Award and the pageant has been steadily rising them year-on-year since then. “The importance of the awards is that they replicate the selection of the viewers and jury and the preferences from an American viewers for French cinema and sequence,” stated Truffart. “It’s very helpful data for the French movie and TV industries.”
The American French Movie Competition was created in 1997 and is produced by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, a collaboration between the Administrators Guild of America (DGA), the Movement Image Affiliation (MPA), France’s Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM) and the Writers Guild of America (WGA). Additionally it is supported by Unifrance, the French Ministry of International Affairs and France’s Society of Authors, Administrators and Producers (L’ARP).
The twenty ninth version of TAFFF ran from October 28 to November 3 in L.A.