The American French Film Festival, previously often known as COLCOA, has set the dates of its 2023 version to Oct. 18-22.
Organized by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, the pageant will host its twenty seventh version on the Administrators Guild of America Theater on Sundown Boulevard in Hollywood.
“Created by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, this occasion is the most important French movie pageant in North America and the most important pageant devoted to French Movies and TV applications on this planet,” mentioned Cécile Rap-Veber, CEO of Sacem (the guild for authors, composers and publishers of music) who presides over the Franco-American Cultural Fund.
Rap-Veber mentioned “the American French Movie Pageant is an excellent image to embody the Franco-American friendship and an important second and highlight to advertise French cinema and all its gifted creators.”
A Hollywood launchpad for French motion pictures, the pageant was launched in 1996 and has hosted premieres of films by critically acclaimed filmmakers akin to Jean-Jacques Annaud, Emmanuel Mouret, Maïmouna Doucouré, Céline Devaux, Olivier Assayas and Katell Quillévéré.
A variety of motion pictures have additionally been picked up for U.S. distribution following their premieres on the L.A.-based pageant, notably Michael Hazanavicius’ “Ultimate Minimize” (Kino Lorber), “A Household for 1640 Days” (Distrib Movies US) and “The Tremendous 8 Years” (Kino Lorber). Yearly, the American French Movie Pageant brings collectively French stars and filmmakers who’re on the bottom to current their motion pictures and take part in panel discussions, amongst different actions. Earlier company embody Marion Cotillard and Omar Sy.
“Happening within the coronary heart of Hollywood, the American French Movie pageant has turn out to be a key worldwide occasion for French filmmakers and expertise to realize publicity amongst the movie group right here,” mentioned Francois Truffart, government producer and programmer. “Now extra so than ever earlier than, there are numerous alternatives for French-language movies and collection to discover a dwelling and an viewers within the US., Truffart continued. He additionally mentioned the fest supplied a novel platform for worldwide gross sales corporations and U.S. distributions to advertise their movies and collection at first of the Awards Season.
Anouchka van Riel, the pageant’s deputy director, mentioned the American French Movie Pageant “continues to anchor all that’s French cinema and TV for the U.S. movie trade and moviegoers in a swath of applications that instill an urge for food for French filmmaking.”
Van Riel identified the pageant’s function in “figuring out rising expertise and bringing them and their work to Los Angeles,” has been key to nurture audiences and unlock new avenues for the movies with producers, distributors, and others.” The chief has additionally been a driving power behind the occasion’s free schooling program which permits every year 3,000 highschool college students to attend.
This 12 months’s version will broaden its trade program and embody extra alternatives for American and French filmmakers, actors and composers to trade concepts and greatest practices.
