COLCOA French Film Festival Announced 17 Awards For
Cinema, Television, Shorts and Digital Series at the 22nd Edition of
the Festival, which ended yesterday.
LE BRIO Wins LAFCA Jury Award and BLOODY MILK/Petit Paysan Wins Audience Award
(West Hollywood, May 1, 2018) The
Franco-American Cultural Fund, a collaboration between the Directors Guild of
America, the Motion Picture Association, The Writers Guild of America West and
France’s Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM),
announced today the awards for the 22nd edition of COLCOA French
Film Festival.
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| LE BRIO Wins LAFCA Jury Award |
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| BLOODY MILK/Petit Paysan Wins Audience Award |
COLCOA Cinema
– 8 Awards
This year’s LAFCA film jury was
comprised of Lael Lowenstein (KPCC’s FilmWeek), Wade Major (KPCC’s FilmWeek,
DigiGods, CineGods.com) and Chuck Wilson (LA Weekly and Village Voice).
LE BRIO, written and directed by Yvan Attal was awarded the COLCOA
LAFCA Critics Award/Prix de la Critique by the
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Jury at the 22nd edition of
COLCOA French Film Festival.
Jury Statement
At a time
of heightened racial and religious tensions on both sides of the Atlantic,
writer/director Yvan Attal’s superb LE BRIO shines a hopeful light on a subject
too often relegated to dark prognostications. In blending elements from such
classics as PYGMALION and THE PAPER CHASE with serious issues of
contemporary concern, Attal’s smart, elegantly-crafted and superbly
entertaining film is both socially relevant and artistically proficient, making
it the perfect choice for our COLCOA jury.
In the hands of veteran Daniel Auteuil and dazzling newcomer Camélia
Jordana, Attal’s crackling dialogue becomes the spark that sets off one of the
most incendiary screen pairings in recent years.
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| C’EST LA VIE!/Le Sens de la fête, written and directed by Éric Toledano & Olivier Nakache, was awarded the LAFCA Critics Special Prize/Prix Special de la Critique. |
Jury
Statement
C’EST LA
VIE! is further confirmation that Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache are among
the most skilled filmmakers currently working anywhere in the world. It’s an
unbelievable juggling act — folding an unwieldy number of characters and
subplots into a single, frenetic event — that manages to be as life-affirming
as it technically accomplished.
LUNA, written and directed by Elsa
Diringer, received the Best First
Feature Award/Prix du Meilleur
Premiere Film.
Jury Statement
Our jury
also celebrates the achievement of first-time writer/director Elsa Diringer
whose LUNA stands apart from a host of other films wrestling with the
contemporary challenges of youth. Anchored by a sterling lead performance from
Laëtitia Clément, LUNA is at once heartbreaking and impassioned, deeply
empathetic and bracingly optimistic.
BLOODY MILK/Petit Paysan, written and directed by
Hubert Charuel, won the distinguished COLCOA
Audience Award/Prix du Public.
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PROMISE AT DAWN/La Promesse de l’aube, written and directed by
Éric Barbier, opened the festival, and won the Audience Special Prize/Prix Special du Public.
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MAKALA, directed by Emmanual Gras, received the Best Documentary
Award/Prix du Meilleur Documentaire.
CUSTODY/Jusqu’ à la garde, written and directed
by Xavier Legrand, was awarded the Coming Soon Award, which is awarded
to a film with a U.S. distributor. The
film will be released by Kino Lorber later this year.
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| SEE YOU UP THERE/Au revoir là-haut, written and directed by Albert Dupontel, won the American Students Award/Prix des Etudiants Amercains. This award was voted on exclusively by a jury of ten students from local area high schools and colleges. |
COLCOA Television – 4
Awards
Presented in association with TV France International and
TITRAFILM, the COLCOA Television competition awarded four programs the
following awards:
THE AGE OF STATELESS/Le Temps des égarés, written by Gaëlle
Belland, directed by Virginie Sauveur, received the Best TV Movie Award/Prix du Meilleur Telefilm.
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PROUD/Fiertes, written by José Caltagirone, Niels Rahou, Philippe Faucon
and directed by Philippe Faucon, was awarded the Best TV Series Award/Prix de
la Meilleure Serie and the Audience
Award (TV Series)/Prix de L’Audiene
(Serie).
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INFIDELITY/Un Adultere written by Eric Assous,
Stéphanie Vasseur and directed by Philippe Harel, was honored with the TV Movie Audience Award/Prix de L’Audience Telefilm.
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COLCOA Shorts – 4
Awards
GRAMS/Petites filles, written/directed by Camille Japy, won the Best Short Film Award/Prix du Meilleur Court Metrage.
THE WRINKLES/Les Bigorneaux, written/directed by Alice Vial,
received both the Best Short Film
Special Prize/Prix Special du Court
Metrage and the Audience Short Film
Award/Prix de L’audience Court
Metrage.
HYBRIDS, written/directed by Romain Thirion, Florian Brauch, Matthieu Pujol, Kim Tailhades, and Yohan Thireau,was
awarded the inaugural Best Animated
Short/Prix du Court Metrage
d’animation.
COLCOA Digital Series – 1 Award
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BIARRITZ
SURF GANG, written and directed by Nathan Curren and Pierre Denoyel, was awarded The Best Digital Series/Prix
de la Meilleure Serie Digitale.
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86 films, television series, digital series and VR programs were
presented at COLCOA this year and 33 features, 4 documentaries, 23 short films,
12 television series, and 4 digital series competed for the 2018 COLCOA Awards.
Films details: www.colcoa.org/
This year’s festival opened on Monday, April 23 with the North American Premiere of writer/director Eric Barbier’s PROMISE AT DAWN and closed with the North American premiere of Cedric Kahn’s new drama THE PRAYER on Monday, April 30. Writer, director and actress Mélanie Laurent was honored as the “Focus on a Filmmaker” and composer Laurent Perez Del Mar was honored with the “Focus on a Composer.” Happy Hour talks included France’s Female New Wave with panelists w/d Sou Abadi (SOME LIKE IT VEILED, w/d Elisa Diringer (LUNA), actor Camélia Jordana (LE BRIO and SOME LIKE IT VEILED), w/d Nawell Madani (STAND UP GIRL) and w/d Marie-Garel Weiss (THE PARTY’S OVER) and a panel with several of the festival filmmakers including w/d Eric Barbier (PROMISE AT DAWN), w/d Samuel Benchetrit (DOG), w/d Hubert Charuel (BLOODY MILK), w/d/p Charles de Meaux (THE LADY IN THE PORTRAIT), w/d Xavier Legrand (CUSTODY) and w/d Marie-Garel Weiss (PARTY’S OVER).
Other attendees included director Jon Amiel, writer, director, producer Lucia Aniello, composer Jean-Michel Bernard, Anthony Bajon (THE PRAYER), director Modi Barry (CHATEAU), w/d Dany Boon (FAMILY IS FAMILY), director James Bort (RISE OF A STAR), actor Isabelle Candelier (BLOODY MILK), w/d Christian Carion (MY SON), author Erri De Luca, Prima Ballerina at Paris Opera Ballet Dorothée Gilbert (RISE OF A STAR), actor Vanessa Guide (LET THE GIRLS PLAY), w/d Taylor Hackford, musician Jean-Michel Jarre, w/d Philippe Le Guay (NAKED NORMANDY), writer, director, producer and education Jeremy Kagan, actor Xavier Lemaître (INFIDELITY), actor Gong Li, w/d Michael Mann, w/d Mike Mills, actor Vanessa Paradis (DOG), composer Lalo Schifrin (Honoree), singer Hélène Ségara. w/d Francis Veber (THE DINNER GAME), and w/d Marie-Garrel Weiss (PARTY’S OVER).
COLCOA FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL is presented by the Franco-American Cultural
Fund, a unique collaboration between the Directors Guild of America, the Motion
Picture Association, the Writers Guild of America West, and France’s Society of
Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM). COLCOA is also supported by
France’s Society of Authors, Directors and Producers (L’ARP), the Film and TV
Office of the French Embassy in Los Angeles, the CNC, TV France International,
and Unifrance.
COLCOA FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL is sponsored by
Air Tahiti Nui, TV5MONDE, Variety (Official Sponsors); Admirable Malibu
Wines, Airstar America, Barnstormer, France Télévisions, KPCC 89.3, Los Angeles
Times, Champagne Trésor de France, The Hollywood Reporter (Premier Sponsors);
Club Culinaire of Southern California, ELMA, LA Confidential, Sunset Marquis,
Titra Film (Major Sponsors); Alliance Française de Los Angeles, Cinando,
D’Alessio Law Group, Discover Hollywood, Duverger, Laemmle, Marché du
Film/Festival de Cannes, Miraval/Vineyard Brands/La Vielille Ferme, Office de
Tourisme Epernay, Paul M. Young Fine Wines, (Platinum Sponsors); Cinelife,
Delair Labs, France-Amérique, French Morning, Gayot, Hénaff Gonidec, La
Chouquette, Le Grenouille Selections/The Source Imports, Locations Wines, Lycée
International Los Angeles, Mademoiselle M, MAC, Petit Pot, Rosenthal, Samsung,
Sharingbox, Tealeaves (Supporting Sponsors).
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