City of Lights, City of Angels (COL·COA) has confirmed the program of documentary features and its palate of short films, programmed to accompany films in competition, and will also participate in the short films competition as well. The 17th edition of the festival runs April 15-22 at the Directors Guild of America.
-COL·COA.doc: FRENCH DOCUMENTARIES IN THE SPOTLIGHT IN HOLLYWOOD
Three films will round up the documentary section at COL·COA 2013:
- The Sons of Wind (Les Fils du Vent) directed by Bruno Le Blanc, produced by Les Films du Veyrier. The documentary about the followers or spiritual sons of guitarist Django Reinhardt will be presented at COL·COA as a North American Premiere.
- Becoming Traviata (La Traviata et nous) written and directed by Philippe Béziat, produced by Les Films Pelléas. A mise en scene look at the modern staging of Verdi's opera La Traviata in Aix-en-Provence with internationally acclaimed soprano Natalie Dessay will be showing at COL·COA as a four-month tour of Natalie Dessay starts in the U.S. DistriB Films will distribute the film in the U.S..
- The Invisibles (Les Invisibles) directed by Sébastien Lifshitz, produced by Zadig Films. Taking home the Best Documentary César for 2013, following its official selection at the Cannes Film Festival, The Invisibles traces the evolution of French society from the post-war years to the present from the perspective of homosexual men and women. It will be presented for the first time in the U.S. at COL·COA. It will be released in the U.S. by DistriB Films.
The three documentaries join 28 narrative features in competition for the COL·COA Awards.
-INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE OF DUO NAKACHE/TOLEDANO'S NEW SHORT FILM AT COL·COA
One year after the success of Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano's The Intouchables at COL·COA (COL·COA Audience Award, COL·COA LAFCA Critics Award 2012), the co-director's new short film, Clean, starring Laurent Lafitte will open the festival and the short films competition on April 15.
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Nineteen new short films will compete for the COL·COA Awards:
505G, written and directed by Jérémy Azencott
75 Canaries, written and directed by Philippe Prouff
À la française, co-written and co-directed by Morrigane Boyer, Julien Hazebroucq, Ren-Hsien Hsu, Emmanuelle Leleu, William Lorton
Clay, written and directed by Michaël Guerraz
Just Before Losing Everything, written and directed by Xavier Legrand
Bella B., written and directed by Jan-Luck Levasseur
Bet She'an, written and directed by Julien Soler
Bad Toys II, written and directed by Daniel Brunet et Nicolas Douste
Clean, co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano
Come What May, co-written and co-directed by Maxime Feyers et Mathieu Bergeron
Fragments of a standstill trip, written and directed by Lionel Mougin
Fuck U.K., written and directed by Benoît Forgeard
The Inn, written and directed by Izú Troin
The Lizards, written and directed by Vincent Mariette
Kiki of Montparnasse, written and directed by Amélie Harrault
My Sweetheart, written and directed by Daniel Metge
Leaving, written and directed by Joanna Lurie
Time 2 Split, written and directed by Fabrice Bracq
City of Light, written and directed Pascal Tessaud
COL·COA was created by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, a unique collaborative effort of the Directors Guild of America, the Motion Picture Association, the Writers Guild of America West, and France's Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM). COL·COA is also supported by France's Society of Authors, Directors and Producers (L'ARP), the Film and TV Office of the French Embassy in Los Angeles, the CNC and Unifrance.
For more information: www.colcoa.org
