“Colors of Time”, “Love Me Tender” and “Nouvelle Vague” win big awards at TAFFF
Exclusive: Cedric Klapisch colors of time, Anna Cazeneuve Campet I love givingLouise Hemon’s first feature film Girl in the snow And Richard Linklater Mysterious novel Some of the film winners were at the 29th American French Film Festival in Los Angeles this year.
Awards were given out over the six-day festival, which concluded on November 3 at the DGA Theater Complex Colors of time With the prestigious Audience Award. The film, which premiered at Cannes earlier this year, tells the story of four cousins who inherit an old house in the Normandy countryside and retrace their ancestors’ steps in 19th-century Paris.
The Festival Critics Award went to I love givingIn which Vicki Krieps plays a lawyer who fights her ex-husband for custody of their son after starting a new relationship. Mysterious novelLinklater’s Love Letter to the French New Wave and Godard won the American Student Award during Hemon’s directorial debut. Girl in the snowa story set in 1899 about a young woman’s arrival in a snowy hamlet on the edge of the Alps, won the festival’s top feature film prize.
As for television, the audience series award at the festival went to The deala six-part political drama about a Swiss diplomat in Geneva in 2015 who mediates nuclear talks between the United States and Iran while dealing with an endangered Iranian engineer. The Jury Prize went to the Canal+ series The guardsa series set during World War I that follows French soldier Gabriel who is presumed dead but is then selected for a top-secret program, which involves taking a serum that makes him stronger and faster.
The TAFFF TV Movie Award went to Drama Mubarak sixtywhich sees its main character, Sixtine, marry a violent Catholic fundamentalist. When he dies, she flees her in-laws and tries to rebuild her life.
The TAFFF Short Film Award was awarded to Hugo Becker Lifeline While the Documentary Film Award went to Linda Bendley Drug and abuse: no more shamewhich focuses on the shocking rape trial of Gisèle Bellicot.
The TAFFF Awards will be held in person at a special ceremony in Paris on November 12. The festival’s artistic director, François Truffart, says it is important that this intimate event be held in the French capital so that all talents can attend. “Some of our French delegates need to leave before or after the closing night, so it is best for the awards to be handed out in Paris,” he said. “It is also great that part of the Franco-American event will be held in France with all the people associated with the winners.”
Truvart added that distributors use the award to promote their films and series in the United States
“For films that have already been acquired, it is an additional badge that they can use for promotion,” he said. “But for those still seeking distribution, it’s a huge selling point. For example, last year, Marching band It won the Audience Award, which helped the film spread. with The Count of Monte Cristowhich won the Student Prize last year, has been used by its distributor Samuel Goldwyn to help gain recognition from younger audiences.
TAFFF began its awards in 2006 with the Audience Award, and the festival has been steadily developing it year after year since then. “The importance of the awards is that they reflect the choice of the audience, the jury, and the preferences of the American public for French cinema and series,” Truvart said. “It is very useful information for the French film and television industry.”
Created in 1997 and produced by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, the French American Film Festival is a collaboration between the Directors Guild of America (DGA), the Motion Picture Association of America (MPA), the Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of French Music (SACEM) and the Writers Guild of America (WGA). It is also supported by Unifrance, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the French Association of Authors, Directors and Producers (L’ARP).
The 29th edition of TAFFF was held from October 28 to November 3 in Los Angeles