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2010 Schedule

Thursday, March 25


6:30 p.m.

Marching Band by Claude Miller, Héléna Cotinier and Pierre-Nicolas Durand

Discussion with French director Héléna Cotinier, cinematographer Luis Armando Arteaga, French producer Annie Miller and production manager Isaac Regelson

   
9 p.m.

Les Plages d’Agnès by Agnès Varda


Friday, March 26


4 p.m. Master class: “3-D Technology in Filmmaking”

Download the English translation of the master thesis by Jeanne Guillot on filmmaking with 3-D technology [PDF].

Part 1

Presentation by and discussion with Alain Besse, board member and sound editor, CST; Rip Hampton O’Neil, director of research and development, CST; Angelo Cosimano, general director, Digimage; Pierre-William Glenn, CST president, La Fémis professor and French director; Gérard Krawczyk, French director and president CNC Commission on New Technologies; Jean-Jacques Bouhon, La Fémis professor; Rob Tregenza, VCU professor, director of VCUarts Cinema and independent film director; and Françoise Ravaux-Kirkpatrick and Peter Kirkpatrick, VCU and UR French Film Festival directors and professors

Part 2: Fémis short shot in 3-D: Le train où ça va

Presentation by director Jeanne Guillot

Discussion with Jeanne Guillot and UR intern-translation team: Kim Burns, Kathryn Einerson, Leander Sinanan and Rebecca Steward

Part 3: More shorts from La Fémis

Chantier by Damien Dufresne
Birds Get Vertigo Too by Sarah Cunningham
The Sad and Lonely Death of Edgar Allan Poe by La Fémis and VCUarts Cinema students (film editing by Pierre-WilliamGlenn)

Discussion with Damien Dufresne, Pierre-William Glenn, Jean-Jacques Bouhon, Rob Tregenza and Anne Chapman, casting director for Lion Heart Film Works

   
7 p.m.

Portrait de groupe avec enfants et motocyclettes
Discussion with French director Pierre-William Glenn, French producer Magali Potier and French actresses Lucine Sanchez and Amélie Demoulin

   
9:20 p.m.

Sœur Sourire
Discussion with director Stijn Coninx


Saturday, March 27


9 a.m.

First Short Film Series
Allons-y ! Alonzo !
Procuration
La Clef du problème
Vers où s’envolent les papillons

Discussion with French directors Camille Moulin-Dupré, Guillaume Cotillard, French producer Magali Potier and Julie Voisin and French actors Guillaume Viry, Jean-Pierre Léonardini and Mathieu Simonet

   
10:30 a.m.

Orpailleur
Discussion with French director Marc Barrat and actor George Aguilar

   
12:45 p.m.

Sans rancune!
Discussion with director Yves Hanchar

   
3:15 p.m.

Presentation of the 2010 French Delegation, introduced by his Excellency Pierre Vimont, the French ambassador to the United States, VCU President Michael Rao, UR President Edward L. Ayers and Festival Directors Françoise Ravaux-Kirkpatrick and Peter Kirkpatrick

   
4 p.m.

Le Hérisson
Discussion with French director Mona Achache and French actress Josiane Balasko

   
7 p.m. Official Reception at the UR Jepson Alumni Center
   
9:45 p.m.

Welcome
Discussion with actor Firat Ayverdi

   

Sunday, March 28


8 a.m.

Second Short Film Series
De si près
En attendant que la pluie cesse
Plus tard je serai Zorro
7.57 am-pm

Discussion with French directors Charlotte Joulia, Joël Olivier and Simon Lelouch and French cinematographer Mathieu-David Cournot

   
9:30 a.m.

En terre étrangère
Discussion with French director Christian Zerbib, assistant director Touria Benzari and special guest Seydou Togola

   
11:35 a.m.

Erreur de la banque en votre faveur
Discussion with French directors Gérard Bitton and Michel Munz

   
2:10 p.m.

Commis d’office
Discussion with French director, screenwriter and author Hannelore Cayre

   
4:30 p.m.

Closing ceremony with French Delegation
Run time 4:30-5:30 p.m.

   
5 p.m.

Mères et filles by Julie Lopes-Curval
Discussion with French director Julie Lopes-Curval


 



 
 

 

 


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