Press pack - Festival International du Film sur le Handicap

Press
pack
may 2016
PRESS CONTACT:
Nadia Pierson | International press department manager
Phone. +33 (0)6 61 10 45 60 | [email protected]
www.festival-international-du-film-sur-le-handicap.fr
Table of contents
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Interview with Philippe Pozzo di Borgo (Intouchables)
Genesis of the festival
Goals
Principle
The festival in a nutshell
The exhibit-train from Copenhagen to Cannes
from September 1st to 16th 2016
The IFFD in Cannes from September 16th to 21st 2016
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he competitions awarded with 9 “agnès b.” trophies
and the CNC prize
16 Foreign international partner festivals
17 Cartes blanches
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17 Debates
Official partners
Interview with Philippe Pozzo
di Borgo inspirer of Untouchables
How did the meeting with Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano
that led to the film Untouchables go? You said “They soaked
me in, as if they were eating into me. They were pertinent and
impertinent all at the same time”. Is that what convinced you
to work with them?
“It all started with a phone call that I got
while in Essaouira. It was Eric Toledano
and Olivier Nakache on the end of the
line. They introduced themselves as well
as the three full-length features they’d
already produced. I confessed that I know
nothing about cinema even though my
aunt Odile Versois (Marina Vlady’s older
sister) had familiarised us with it. At the
time they were only about 35 years old
but their voices were friendly and their
approach was direct; they offered to come
to Essaouira to meet us, along with their producer Nicolas Duval
Adassowsky, boss of Quad Films. We set up a meeting in a restaurant on the beach of Essaouira and I hurtled down the pier at full
speed with my wheelchair. I suddenly saw two fellows rushing
towards me like bullfighters and I dug my heels in. It was my two
directors roaring with laughter. Lunch was just as hilarious. I
confirmed that they had just the tone between laughter, emotion,
seriousness and rhythm that I found appropriate to deal with
two outsiders, the social one and the physical one, rebuilding
themselves in a mutual respect. The producer, Nicolas, asked
me point blank what I wanted in exchange of participating in
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Interview with Philippe Pozzo
di Borgo inspirer of Untouchables
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their project. I didn’t quite understand the question since I don’t
belong to the film circle so I just answered: “You can make a
gesture for my organisation, Simon de Cyrène, for the benefit
of multiply-handicapped and brain injured persons”. The answer was immediate, an approval from the trio: “5% net revenue,
producer’s share”. I think it’s the first time that professionals of
mainstream cinema were committing to give a part of their revenue to an organisation in profit of severely disabled persons.
In 2015, you published the book Toi et moi («You and me»,
t/n). What message did you want to convey in that book?
I forced the pace of my travels too much and it cost me nearly 3
years of hospitalisation and various surgeries. Toi et moi, j’y crois
came to me during these long months in the hospital, completely
supine, immobilised, watching the ceiling of my room. Upon
this forced silence, I retrieved some kind of innocence; I was
able to disarm myself, and in this self-decentring that is made
possible by immobility and silence, I was able to find richness in
the encounter of someone, this anonymous person who comes
to care for you or visit you. Yet our society suffers from individualism, a lack of honest relationships. The therapy consists
in observing, as my youngest daughter Widjane would call it,
a daily «Pozzo pause», in order to make oneself available and
consider the other in all their diversity, their weaknesses, their
wealth, their demands and their path to dignity. By spreading
this consideration, our western, globalised society could find the
answers to the urgent challenges that are threatening it.
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You agreed to actively support the International Film Festival
on Disability. Why did this event in particular appeal to you
even though you’re very much requested otherwise? In what
ways are you thinking to promote this event in the media?
The film Untouchables as well as the marvellous Samba that followed it and the extraordinary documentary by Eric and Olivier
entitled On aurait pu en faire un film («We could’ve made a film
about it», t/n) – 26 breathtaking minutes about autism and social
marginality; show the power of the image that sticks to human
condition, without pretence but with tremendous humour, kindness and generosity. The works of these two young directors
aren’t done making the lines shift. I will do what the directors and
the producer ask me to do if I can take it upon myself because
they’re the real film roll professionals.
Interview by Alain MOIRE
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Genesis of the festival
Goals
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n 2001, as the Festival International des Très Courts is celebrating its third edition, Katia Martin-Maresco joins its team
and works on its worldwide expansion.
In collaboration with the organisation Pandora and its director,
comics artist Philippe Caza, with whom she’d always collaborated, she initiates the Paroles de Femmes (“Women’s words”)
selection. This selection of short films about women is
now being held high by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs.
Along the way, Katia meets a group of students who are
all in a situation of disability: becoming aware of all the
accessibility issues in cinemas, public and cultural places,
she decides – still within the Festival des Très Courts – to
launch the Travelling 34 selection, a selection dedicated
to short films about disability, along with Philippe Caza,
Tristan Incorvaia and Damien Jouteux.
This selection is supported by the inspirer of Untouchables Philippe Pozzo di Borgo. The initiative is such a
success that the team of Travelling 34 decided to create a new
festival for all audiences in early 2015: that’s how the story of the
International Film Festival on Disability begins.
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OBILISE film industry professionals, sponsors and collectivities to participate in the promotion of a civic and creative
difference.
› S HOW all audiences films that promote this difference without
leaning into a miserabilist point of view while highlighting
the urgency of adapting rooms in movie theatres for disabled
people.
That’s what drives the founder and director of the festival, Katia
Martin-Maresco, the sponsor of the festival, designer agnès b.,
as well as Marie-Hélène Delon (speaker).
Numerous personalities have enthusiastically joined our international support committee sponsored by novelist and member
of the French Academy Erik Orsenna.
Principle
A two-step festival:
›A
European route by train from Copenhagen to Cannes, from
September 1st to 16th 2016.
› T he festival per se from September 16th to 21st 2016.
Left to right:
Katia Martin-Maresco,
Philippe Caza and
Philippe Pozzo di Borgo
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The festival in a nutshell
1 OUT OF 5 PERSONS IS
AFFECTED BY A DISABILITY IN
FRANCE ACCORDING TO THE INSEE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
AND 1 OUT OF 10 WORLDWIDE
ACCORDING TO THE WHO.
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Creation of the first International Film Festival on Disability
(IFFD) by Katia Martin-Maresco (director of the festival). The
IFFD is placed under the high patronage of HSH the Prince Albert
II of Monaco..
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Designer agnès b. is a sponsor of the
festival. She signs the crystal trophies
realised by sculptor artist Jean-Michel
Othoniel.
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A support committee sponsored by
Erik Orsenna joined by numerous
personalities such as Patti Smith, China
Moses, Jean-Claude Dreyfus...
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A mobilisation of film industry professionals, sponsors and collectivities
to participate in the promotion of a civic
and creative difference.
A EUROPEAN ROUTE BY EXHIBIT-TRAIN FROM COPENHAGEN TO CANNES FROM SEPTEMBER 1ST TO 16TH 2016
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Various events with themes around disability will be organised all along the way and the cities the train will stop in.
Each stop will be an opportunity to highlight innovations undertaken by collectivities and local corporations towards disability.
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On the platforms. On an inflatable screen, projection of
films directed by the Monty Python (Flying Circus) and
various selections from the festival in the “We want cinema!”
carriage, debates around disability.
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All Gaumont-Pathé cinemas in France will simultaneously
broadcast a 42-minute special selection of short-length features.
THE FESTIVAL AT THE PALAIS DES FESTIVALS IN CANNES
FROM SEPTEMBER 16TH TO 21ST 2016
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Over 150 films will compete in 9 categories, assessed by a
jury of renowned professionals and awarded with 9 agnès
b. trophies. The 10th honorific trophy will be awarded to a personality for their entire work and a CNC prize will be awarded
to a film, across all categories.
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“Cartes blanches” will be given to directors of various great
foreign partner festivals (from Belgium, Brazil, Italy, Spain...)
who will present a selection of their favourite films.
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Debates will be held in Gaumont-Pathé cinemas with directors, technicians, comedians, etc. around the question
of disability in castings as well as accommodations for disabled
people, all subject matters especially taken into account by the
CNC these days.
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A European route by exhibit-train
from Copenhagen to Cannes from
September 1st to 16th 2016
Copenhagen
Brussels
Lille
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rom September 1st to 16th 2016, an exhibit-train will leave
Copenhagen and conduct a journey through several European capitals and French cities:
Paris
What about the train?
This is the story of the little mermaid who wanted to go to France
to attend a famous film festival on disability. But since she lived in
Denmark, she wondered how she could make the journey... She
first thought of going there by sea but, fascinated as she was by
the biped humans’ earth, she finally decided to go by train and
to stop in train stations all along the way to make some happy
encounters and share earthly adventures on her path.
A train with a mermaid as a figurehead will be chartered from
the city of Copenhagen to its final stop, Cannes. Various events
with themes around disability will be organised all along the
way and the cities the train will stop in. Each stop will be an
opportunity to highlight innovations undertaken by collectivities
and local corporations towards disability. From Copenhagen to
Cannes, a dozen of cities will be served among which Brussels, Paris, Amiens, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nîmes,
Monaco...
Once it stops at a station, the doors of the train will open and a
multitude of entertainments and activities will flow out of the
station and swirl around the whole city until the train leaves.
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Valenciennes
Amiens
Lyon
Calendar for September 2016
• Copenhagen: Monday 05-09
• Brussels: Wednesday 07-09
• Lille Flandres: Thursday 08-09
• Valenciennes: Friday 09-09
• Amiens: Saturday 10-09
• Paris: Sunday 11-09
• Lyon Perrache: Monday 12-09
• Montpellier: Tuesday 13-09
• M arseille St-Charles: Friday
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• Monaco: Thursday 15-09
• Cannes: Friday 16-09
Monaco
Montpellier
Marseille
Cannes
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The exhibit-train from Copenhagen
to Cannes, from September 1st to 16th 2016
The train
The mermaid’s train will consist of several carriages.
A «projection room» carriage in which films for all audiences
will be scheduled.
A carriage will host a photography exhibition.
A carriage will be arranged into a conference lounge in which
our local partners will organize meetings and hold debates about
their own initiatives.
On the platform and in the station
Several local organisations will have their own stand all along
the platform to initiate dialogue and raise awareness among the
public.
Depending on the accommodations of the stations, films will be
projected in the waiting rooms for the travellers.
In the city
Cinema sessions and discussions will extend the event in the
city’s Gaumont-Pathé cinema. Performances and cultural events
around our theme will also take place in association with local
structures, theatres and exhibition halls.
At the end of its stay in the station, the train will head for another
city where the same ballet of events will take place.
Then, at the end of its journey, the train will arrive in Cannes
for the opening ceremony of the International Film Festival on
Disability.
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21 films selected will be broadcasted in
the cinema carriage of the exhibit-train
FILMS
1. Breaking the Waves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2. Dancer in the Dark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3. Of Mice and Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4. Elephant man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape . . . . . . . . .
6. Untouchables (intouchables) . . . . . . . .
7. The Boy in the Plastic Bubble . . . . . . . .
8.Awakenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9. The Piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
10. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly . . . .
11. The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro) . . . . . . . .
12.Memento . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
13. My left foot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
14.Scent of a Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
15. At First Sight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
16. Rain Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
17. I Am Sam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
18. Snow Cake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
19. Read my lips (Sur mes lèvres) . . . . . . . .
20.Visiblement je vous aime . . . . . . . . . . .
21. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest . . .
DIRECTORS
Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier
Gary Sinise
David Lynch
Lasse Hallström
Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano
Randal Kleiser
Penny Marshall
Jane Campion
Julian Schnabel
Alejandro Amenabar
Christopher Nolan
Jim Sheridan
Martin Brest
Irwin Winkler
Barry Levinson
Jessie Nelson
Marc Evans
Jacques Audiard
Jean-Michel Carré
Milos Forman
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The festival in Cannes
from September 16th to 21st 2016
The competitions
rewarded with agnès b. trophies.
9 selections in competition, 9 trophies designed by agnès b.
Last stop of the train in Cannes for the launching of the IFFD
at the Palais des Festivals introduced by an opening ceremony.
There, over 150 films will compete in 9 categories, assessed by
a jury of renowned professionals who will attribute 9 awards in
the form of “agnès b.” trophies.
SIX MINUTES TO CONVINCE!
6 selections of max. 6 minutes international short-length features will compete, regrouped in themed programmes of 42
minutes each.
› Documentaries
› Advertising and video clips
› Animated films
› Fiction
› Fantasy films
› Youth films
THE WORLD IS SPINNING! (and you’re spinning along...)
› 1 selection of 4 fictional full-length films
› 1 selection of 4 documentaries
“3E ANGE” (Films about and/or starring seniors)
› 1 uncategorisable – strange – weird selection (without duration limit)
THE 10TH HONORIFIC AGNÈS B. TROPHY. will be awarded to
a personality for their entire work.
THE CNC PRIZE will be awarded to a film, across all categories.
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Foreign international
partner festivals
“Cartes blanches“
The directors of these great international festivals will propose
three short-length features, one full-length film and one documentary about disability in their country in the official selection.
They will talk about their festival and the situation regarding
cultural accessibility in their countries.
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or the first edition of the International Film Festival on Disability, a partnership has been established with four international festivals in the form of a “carte blanche”:
This “carte blanche” will be renewed for every edition of the
International Film Festival on Disability with directors of other
festivals around the world to debate on the issues raised and offer
a different point of view through their culture and the policy of
support towards disabled persons in their respective countries.
Belgium: “EOP!” International Film Festival (Extra & Ordinary
People)
Brazil: São Paulo International Short Film Festival
Italy: Montecatini International Short Film Festival
Spain : Jameson Notodo Filmfest
France : Festival International Entr’2 Marches
This initiative falls within an approach of rewarding exchanges
throughout the world with the hope of bringing about a debate
that will go over our geographical and intellectual frontiers.
Debates
Debates in Gaumont-Pathé cinemas and in the “We want cinema!” carriage of the exhibit-train will gather and involve all
sorts of professional of the films industry: directors, technicians,
comedians, etc. around the question of disability in castings as
well as accommodations for disabled people, all subject matters
especially taken into account by the CNC these days.
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Official partners
The achievement of this major event is also possible thanks to
the incredible support of personalities, institutional
or private partners, sponsors, organisations, professionals of
the film industry.
Personalities from the artistic, cultural or fashion world show
us the value of a meaningful support.
Our supporters: Philippe Pozzo di Borgo, François Cluzet, agnès
b., Erik Orsenna, Patti Smith, China Moses, Jean-Claude Dreyfus,
Dominique Pinon, Marguerite Abouet, Marianne Slot…
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Katia Martin-Maresco - Founder and Director
[email protected]
Marie-Hélène Delon - Administrator
[email protected]
Karolina Bomba -Production manager
[email protected]
Meet the entire festival team on our website
www.festival-international-du-film-sur-le-handicap.fr
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Poster and illustration: Caza. Photographs: Patrick Swirc, Bronxgebiet/Thinkstock, Charles Forerunner/Unsplash. Graphic design: www.patrickmirete.com
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