UK Premieres of
The Little Tailor & Dear Prudence
attended by Louis Garrel, Rebecca Zlotowski & Léa Seydoux
Tuesday 10 January at Ciné Lumière
announcing the launch of the 2nd edition of
Unifrance’s world online festival MyFrenchFilmFestival.com
12 January – 1 February
The 1st edition of Unifrance’s online French Film Festival, supported by the CNC and in partnership with Allociné, took place from 14 to 29 January 2011 and attracted 320,000 Internet users from 171 different countries, with more than 40,000 film viewings.
Thanks to the success of this first experience, the second edition will now last three weeks, from 12 January to 1 February 2012. The festival, which was accessible in 10 languages, this year will be available in 14: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
10 feature films and 10 shorts will be proposed in competition to Internet users all over the world via Unifrance platform myfrenchfilmfestival.com. They correspond to first and second feature films released since January 2010 in France and shorts produced since 2010. This selection highlights the new generation of young actors (Léa Seydoux, Anaïs Demoustier, Pio Marmaï, Laura Smet…) and filmmakers (Valérie Donzelli, Louis Garrel, Xabi Molia, Katell Quillévéré…), whose films have travelled to numerous international festivals without being theatrically released abroad. This year, out of competition, in addition to the heritage film, the festival welcomes two Quebec films, a feature and a short, in partnership with Telefilm Canada.
3 prizes will be awarded: the Audience Prize, the International Press Prize and the Social Networks Prize. The public can vote for their favourite film. The Jury for International Press Prize is composed of 10 journalists from great dailies all over the world. Finally, the Jury of the Social Networks Prize is represented by 100 influential people on blogs, Facebook and Twitter from 20 different countries. 3 features and 3 award-winning shorts will be shown aboard Air France flights for 6 months as 1 June 2012.
A fee will be charged for the films on a majority of territories, directly on Unifrance’s platform or via platforms which host it: Dailymotion and Mubi worldwide, Filmin in Spain, via IPTV thanks to SnagFilms in the United States, KT in Korea and J.Com in Japan.
The selection will be distributed free of charge in many territories: in Russia and Latin America – where the films will be shown on Terra, the leading video platform of the region – in exchange for a fixed price paid to the rights holders by the private partner Varilux. In Italy, thanks to a partnership with BNL. In China on the platform Youku (26 million visitors a day), and in Germany thanks to the partnership with Allociné on filmstarts.de.
Premieres for the launch of the festival will be held in cinemas in Berlin, London, Los Angeles and Seoul, thanks to a partnership with the SACD. Films from the selection will be screened in the presence of the director and cast, and a retranscription of the event will be available on the website of the festival.
Ciné Lumière will present the UK Premieres of The Little Tailor, attended by actor-turned director Louis Garrel and Dear Prudence, presented by director Rebecca Zlotowski on Tuesday 10 January. Actress Léa Seydoux, who stars in both films, will join them.
The Institut français in Paris moreover has undertaken to buy the non-commercial rights to the films selected each year by the online festival for cultural distribution throughout the Institut français network worldwide.
MyFrenchFilmFestival.com launch event on Tuesday 10 January at Ciné Lumière London
7.45pm: The Little Tailor + Q&A with Louis Garrel and Léa Seydoux
(France, 2010, 44 mins, dir. Louis Garrel, with Arthur Igual, Léa Seydoux, Albert Grand)
9.00pm: Dear Prudence + Q&A with Rebecca Zlotowski and Léa Seydoux
(France, 2010, 80 mins, dir. Rebecca Zlotowski, with Léa Seydoux, Anaïs Demoustier, Agathe Schlencker)
£10, conc. £8 for each screening // £12, conc. £10 for both screening
Venue: Ciné Lumière, 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT // T020 7871 3515 // www.institut-francais.org.uk
MyFrenchFilmFestival.com, online festival
12 January – 1 February
My FrenchFilmFestival online Festival – The selection
Films in competition
Feature films
- 8 Times Up, directed by Xabi Molia
- Dear Prudence, directed by Rebecca Zlotowski
- Back to Square One, directed by Thomas Ngijol, Fabrice Eboué, Lionel Steketee
- Living on Love Alone, directed by Isabelle Czajka
- Into Our Own Hands, directed by Mariana Otero
- 18 Years Old and Rising, directed by Frédéric Louf
- The Queen of Hearts, directed by Valérie Donzelli
- Memory Lane, directed by Mikhael Hers
- Pauline and François, directed by Renaud Fely
- Love Like Poison, directed by Katell Quillevéré
Shorts
- Aglaée, directed by Rudi Rosenberg
- God’s the One to Tell, directed by Elsa Diringer
- Specky Four-Eyes, directed by Jean-Claude Rozec
- Dripped, directed by Léo Verrier
- I Could’ve Been a Hooker, directed by Baya Kasmi
- The Piano Tuner, directed by Olivier Treiner
- Man’s Best Friend, directed by Vincent Mariette
- The Silence Beneath the Bark, directed by Joanna Lurie
- Dear Abbot, directed by Blandine Lenoir
- The Little Tailor, directed by Louis Garrel
Films out of competition
Heritage film: The Trip Across Paris, directed by Claude Autant-Lara
Quebec feature film: Guilt, directed by Marc Bisaillon
Quebec short: Trotter, directed by Francis Leclerc and Arnaud Brisebois
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