The American French Film Festival (Tafff), which was forced to cancel its 2023 edition due to the Hollywood strikes, has unveiled its 2024 dates.
The Franco-American Cultural Fund (Facf), which oversees the event (formerly known as Colcoa), said the festival would return to the Directors Guild Of America Theater from October 29 to November 3.
“It is with great excitement that we can look forward to hosting The American French Film Festival this year,” said Cécile Rap-Veber, President of the Franco-American Cultural Fund and CEO of partner body Sacem.
“2023 was a very challenging year for the film and television business because of the strikes, but now we can move forward and celebrate the talent and films that this festival showcases every year.”
The event, which is billed as the largest festival devoted to French cinema taking place in the U.S., was create in 1996.
Over the years, it has earned the reputation for being a launchpad for French films,...
The Franco-American Cultural Fund (Facf), which oversees the event (formerly known as Colcoa), said the festival would return to the Directors Guild Of America Theater from October 29 to November 3.
“It is with great excitement that we can look forward to hosting The American French Film Festival this year,” said Cécile Rap-Veber, President of the Franco-American Cultural Fund and CEO of partner body Sacem.
“2023 was a very challenging year for the film and television business because of the strikes, but now we can move forward and celebrate the talent and films that this festival showcases every year.”
The event, which is billed as the largest festival devoted to French cinema taking place in the U.S., was create in 1996.
Over the years, it has earned the reputation for being a launchpad for French films,...
- 1/31/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The American French Film Festival, formerly known as Colcoa, has set the dates of its 2023 edition to Oct. 18-22.
Organized by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, the festival will host its 27th edition at the Directors Guild of America Theater on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.
“Created by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, this event is the largest French film festival in North America and the largest festival dedicated to French Films and TV programs in the world,” said Cécile Rap-Veber, CEO of Sacem who presides over the Franco-American Cultural Fund.
Rap-Veber said “the American French Film Festival is a wonderful symbol to embody the Franco-American friendship and a crucial moment and spotlight to promote French cinema and all its talented creators.”
A Hollywood launchpad for French movies, the festival was launched in 1996 and has hosted premieres of movies by critically acclaimed filmmakers such as Jean-Jacques Annaud, Emmanuel Mouret, Maïmouna Doucouré, Céline Devaux,...
Organized by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, the festival will host its 27th edition at the Directors Guild of America Theater on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.
“Created by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, this event is the largest French film festival in North America and the largest festival dedicated to French Films and TV programs in the world,” said Cécile Rap-Veber, CEO of Sacem who presides over the Franco-American Cultural Fund.
Rap-Veber said “the American French Film Festival is a wonderful symbol to embody the Franco-American friendship and a crucial moment and spotlight to promote French cinema and all its talented creators.”
A Hollywood launchpad for French movies, the festival was launched in 1996 and has hosted premieres of movies by critically acclaimed filmmakers such as Jean-Jacques Annaud, Emmanuel Mouret, Maïmouna Doucouré, Céline Devaux,...
- 3/14/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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Film festivals entertain, inspire and often can launch new talent in front and behind the camera. But few festivals, especially in the U.S., run purpose-built programs to develop young audiences.
Going into its 26th edition, the American French Film Festival (the L.A.-based festival focused on French cinema and formerly known as Colcoa) has hosted Southern California high school students since 2008. The festival now opens its theater doors at the Los Angeles DGA to more than 3,000 students a year. This year, the total number of high schoolers to have watched a French film at the festival over the years will tick above 32,000.
It all started with an idea hatched by the American French Film Festival (Tafff) founder François Truffart to invite students to share in the Francophone fun, says Pascal Ladreyt, who heads up the foundation European Languages and Movies in...
Film festivals entertain, inspire and often can launch new talent in front and behind the camera. But few festivals, especially in the U.S., run purpose-built programs to develop young audiences.
Going into its 26th edition, the American French Film Festival (the L.A.-based festival focused on French cinema and formerly known as Colcoa) has hosted Southern California high school students since 2008. The festival now opens its theater doors at the Los Angeles DGA to more than 3,000 students a year. This year, the total number of high schoolers to have watched a French film at the festival over the years will tick above 32,000.
It all started with an idea hatched by the American French Film Festival (Tafff) founder François Truffart to invite students to share in the Francophone fun, says Pascal Ladreyt, who heads up the foundation European Languages and Movies in...
- 10/3/2022
- by Sharon Swart
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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The American French Film Festival (Tafff) is using cinema to bridge the gap between French and American culture.
Presented by the Franco-American Cultural Fund (Facf), the 26th annual festival returns this year for a second time after a pandemic hiatus in 2020. This year, the festival is committed to not only highlighting the similarities between the two cultures, but also zeroing in on the differences to shine a light on how each culture can better understand the other.
“When you organize conversations in a bicultural setting, it’s always full of surprises, and that’s the point of conversations,” festival deputy director Anouchka van Riel tells The Hollywood Reporter. “And for me, it’s not so much about commonalities, as it is about differences. The tropes, the codes, the stereotypes are very different from one culture to another. It’s a very strange feeling...
The American French Film Festival (Tafff) is using cinema to bridge the gap between French and American culture.
Presented by the Franco-American Cultural Fund (Facf), the 26th annual festival returns this year for a second time after a pandemic hiatus in 2020. This year, the festival is committed to not only highlighting the similarities between the two cultures, but also zeroing in on the differences to shine a light on how each culture can better understand the other.
“When you organize conversations in a bicultural setting, it’s always full of surprises, and that’s the point of conversations,” festival deputy director Anouchka van Riel tells The Hollywood Reporter. “And for me, it’s not so much about commonalities, as it is about differences. The tropes, the codes, the stereotypes are very different from one culture to another. It’s a very strange feeling...
- 9/26/2022
- by Sydney Odman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After 25 years, the Colcoa French Film Festival has been renamed the American French Film Festival, with the 26th edition of the festival set for Oct. 10-16. The festival will take place in-person at the Directors Guild theater in Hollywood.
The festival is a significant stop for French filmmakers and TV creators who have the opportunity to put their work in front of members of the Hollywood community in the heart of awards season. In 2021, “Black Box” and “Gallant Indies” were acquired out of the festival. More than 14,000 people attended the most recent edition in 2021.
Since launching in 1996, the festival added TV series before other North American festivals, a high school screenings program, an awards program, panels and happy hour talks and many other events.
“For the last 25 years, Colcoa was the festival to bring French film to the heart of Hollywood,” said Francois Truffart, Executive Producer and Programmer. “Looking ahead,...
The festival is a significant stop for French filmmakers and TV creators who have the opportunity to put their work in front of members of the Hollywood community in the heart of awards season. In 2021, “Black Box” and “Gallant Indies” were acquired out of the festival. More than 14,000 people attended the most recent edition in 2021.
Since launching in 1996, the festival added TV series before other North American festivals, a high school screenings program, an awards program, panels and happy hour talks and many other events.
“For the last 25 years, Colcoa was the festival to bring French film to the heart of Hollywood,” said Francois Truffart, Executive Producer and Programmer. “Looking ahead,...
- 5/20/2022
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Emmanuel Mouret’s “Love Affair(s),” Samir Guesmi’s “Ibrahim” and Elie Wajeman’s “Night Doctor” won top prizes at Colcoa, the French film and TV festival.
The festival, which marked its 25th edition, wrapped at the DGA on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles on Nov. 7. It was attended by 14,000 people.
The festival, programmed by Francois Truffart, is organized by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, a collaboration between the Directors Guild of America (DGA), the Motion Picture Association (MPA), The Writers Guild of America West (Wgaw) and France’s Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (Sacem).
Colcoa shifted its spring dates to the fall in 2019 as the DGA was being renovated and is now ideally positioned at the start of the awards season in the U.S. The awards ceremony took place at the Sacem headquarters near Paris in the presence of many honorees, notably Guesmi and “Love Affair(s)” producer Frédéric Niedermayer,...
The festival, which marked its 25th edition, wrapped at the DGA on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles on Nov. 7. It was attended by 14,000 people.
The festival, programmed by Francois Truffart, is organized by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, a collaboration between the Directors Guild of America (DGA), the Motion Picture Association (MPA), The Writers Guild of America West (Wgaw) and France’s Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (Sacem).
Colcoa shifted its spring dates to the fall in 2019 as the DGA was being renovated and is now ideally positioned at the start of the awards season in the U.S. The awards ceremony took place at the Sacem headquarters near Paris in the presence of many honorees, notably Guesmi and “Love Affair(s)” producer Frédéric Niedermayer,...
- 11/17/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Despite being the world capital of the film and TV industry, Los Angeles has never been a particularly hospitable place to stage a film festival. Which makes it all the more surprising that one of the city’s longest-running, most successful fests happens to be one dedicated entirely to French cinema.
First known as City of Lights, City of Angels, the Colcoa French Film Festival will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year, returning to its longtime home at the DGA Theater Complex for a week’s worth of primo Franco fare. Opening with the Juliette Binoche-starrer “Between Two Worlds,” the festival will screen 55 films and series and 19 shorts from Nov. 1-7 — and after taking a gap-year in 2020 due to the pandemic, this year’s fest will be back in-person.
Reliably attracting 20,000 attendees a year in the pre-covid era, Colcoa’s ability to survive a quarter century has a lot...
First known as City of Lights, City of Angels, the Colcoa French Film Festival will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year, returning to its longtime home at the DGA Theater Complex for a week’s worth of primo Franco fare. Opening with the Juliette Binoche-starrer “Between Two Worlds,” the festival will screen 55 films and series and 19 shorts from Nov. 1-7 — and after taking a gap-year in 2020 due to the pandemic, this year’s fest will be back in-person.
Reliably attracting 20,000 attendees a year in the pre-covid era, Colcoa’s ability to survive a quarter century has a lot...
- 11/1/2021
- by Andrew Barker
- Variety Film + TV
Colcoa, the Los Angeles-based French film festival, will be launching a competitive documentary section at its upcoming 25th edition.
The documentary lineup will tackle contemporary and historical topics such as climate change, immigration, transgender inclusion, holocaust revelations and centenary celebration. Seven documentaries will vie for the 2021 Colcoa Best Documentary Award.
“Documentary films have grown in prominence in France in the past few years, with more than 150 released in theaters in 2019 and strong sales worldwide,” said Colcoa’s deputy director Anouchka van Riel. “We are showing seven of the most innovative documentaries coming out of France today that cover the gamut of style, approach, and artistic vision.”
The roster include the North American premieres of actor-turned-filmmaker Aissa Maiga’s “Above Water” which opened at Cannes in the climate section; Jacques Loeuille’s “Birds of America” about Jean-Jacques Audubon, the American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter; Christophe Cognet’s “From Where They Stood...
The documentary lineup will tackle contemporary and historical topics such as climate change, immigration, transgender inclusion, holocaust revelations and centenary celebration. Seven documentaries will vie for the 2021 Colcoa Best Documentary Award.
“Documentary films have grown in prominence in France in the past few years, with more than 150 released in theaters in 2019 and strong sales worldwide,” said Colcoa’s deputy director Anouchka van Riel. “We are showing seven of the most innovative documentaries coming out of France today that cover the gamut of style, approach, and artistic vision.”
The roster include the North American premieres of actor-turned-filmmaker Aissa Maiga’s “Above Water” which opened at Cannes in the climate section; Jacques Loeuille’s “Birds of America” about Jean-Jacques Audubon, the American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter; Christophe Cognet’s “From Where They Stood...
- 9/10/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Colcoa, the Los Angeles-based French film festival, is set to hold its 25th edition on Nov. 1-7 as a live event which will be held at the Directors Guild of America Theater on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.
The event, which is organized by the Franco-American Cultural Fund (Facf), had to cancel last year’s edition due to the pandemic. Colcoa traditionally takes place in April but moved to September in 2019 as renovation work was being done at the DGA Theater to upgrade the 600-seat main screening room with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos technology. The fall timing proved ideal in 2019 to position Colcoa as a Hollywood launchpad for key French movies in the run up to the awards season. The 2019 edition kicked off with Ladj Ly’s “Les Miserables,” which went on to earn an Oscar nomination.
Conceived as a celebration of French movies, Colcoa recently expanded its scope to highlight French drama,...
The event, which is organized by the Franco-American Cultural Fund (Facf), had to cancel last year’s edition due to the pandemic. Colcoa traditionally takes place in April but moved to September in 2019 as renovation work was being done at the DGA Theater to upgrade the 600-seat main screening room with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos technology. The fall timing proved ideal in 2019 to position Colcoa as a Hollywood launchpad for key French movies in the run up to the awards season. The 2019 edition kicked off with Ladj Ly’s “Les Miserables,” which went on to earn an Oscar nomination.
Conceived as a celebration of French movies, Colcoa recently expanded its scope to highlight French drama,...
- 5/27/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The BBC has picked up a slew of feature docs including Oscar-nominated Minding The Gap and Sundance titles One Child Nation and Maiden.
This comes as the British public broadcaster has revamped its feature doc strand Storyville with films launching on youth-skewing network BBC Three for the first time as it looks to appeal to younger audiences.
The pick ups were unveiled today at the Sheffield Doc/Fest by BBC Storyville Commissioning Editor Mandy Chang.
Minding the Gap will air on BBC Three alongside true crime doc Roll Red Roll and music doc Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl.
Bing Liu’s Oscar nominated Minding the Gap is the coming-of-age saga of three skateboarding friends in their Rust Belt hometown, hit hard by decades of recession. In his quest to understand why he and his friends ran away from home as teenagers, Bing tracks 23-year-old Zack as he becomes a...
This comes as the British public broadcaster has revamped its feature doc strand Storyville with films launching on youth-skewing network BBC Three for the first time as it looks to appeal to younger audiences.
The pick ups were unveiled today at the Sheffield Doc/Fest by BBC Storyville Commissioning Editor Mandy Chang.
Minding the Gap will air on BBC Three alongside true crime doc Roll Red Roll and music doc Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl.
Bing Liu’s Oscar nominated Minding the Gap is the coming-of-age saga of three skateboarding friends in their Rust Belt hometown, hit hard by decades of recession. In his quest to understand why he and his friends ran away from home as teenagers, Bing tracks 23-year-old Zack as he becomes a...
- 6/9/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Kate Nash goes from British-model-turn-wrestler in “Glow” to pop-singing rebel in “Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl,” a new film which will have its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Sept. 22.
“There’s moments when the universe really does swing you a certain way,” Nash says in the exclusive trailer, which you can watch above.
“This is a matter of life and death to me because making music keeps me alive,” she adds. “And being in the music industry has almost killed me. I’m not going to die for the sake of being a f–king pop star.”
Also Read: Judi Dench's Period Spy Thriller 'Red Joan' Picked Up by IFC Films
Nash is an English musician and actress, whose debut album “Made of Bricks” and her hit song “Foundations” rocketed her to international fame.
In “Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl,” a platinum-selling pop...
“There’s moments when the universe really does swing you a certain way,” Nash says in the exclusive trailer, which you can watch above.
“This is a matter of life and death to me because making music keeps me alive,” she adds. “And being in the music industry has almost killed me. I’m not going to die for the sake of being a f–king pop star.”
Also Read: Judi Dench's Period Spy Thriller 'Red Joan' Picked Up by IFC Films
Nash is an English musician and actress, whose debut album “Made of Bricks” and her hit song “Foundations” rocketed her to international fame.
In “Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl,” a platinum-selling pop...
- 9/17/2018
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
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