2014 Champs-Élysées Film Festival

2014 Champs-Élysées Film Festival

Official poster of the 3rd Champs-Élysées Film Festival
Closing film Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
Location Paris, France
Founded 2012
Awards Audience Prize: Best American Independent Feature-Length Film (Fort Bliss)
Hosted by Jacqueline Bisset & Bertrand Tavernier
Number of films 9 (Feature-Length Films In Competition)
21 (French Short Films In Competition)
12 (American Short Films In Competition)
Festival date 11 – 17 June 2014
Website champselyseesfilmfestival.com

The third edition of the Champs-Élysées Film Festival was held from 11 to 17 June 2014, with actors Jacqueline Bisset and Bertrand Tavernier as Honorary Presidents and Keanu Reeves, Agnès Varda, Whit Stillman and Mike Figgis as Guests of Honor. More than 120,000 people attended the Festival, with more than 110 films screened. Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz's Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem was shown at the Closing Ceremony. Along with its competitive Official Selections for American feature-length films, American Shorts and French Shorts, the Festival presented a wide selection of important American and French movie premieres, the TCM Cinema Essentials, a thirteen-film selection of American classics, and the Great French Classics, a five-film selection. Both Honorary Presidents held masterclasses, and the Guests of Honor presented each a selection of their respective filmographies. Three Audience Prizes (Best American Feature-Length Film, Best American Short Film, Best French Short Film), a Bloggers Jury Award (Best American Feature-Length Film) and a Youth Jury Award (Favorite Film in the TCM Cinema Essentials Selection) were presented during the Closing Ceremony, held at the Publicis Cinema. Along with the US in Progress program, a new event targeted at industry professionals was held alongside the Festival: titled Paris Coproduction Village it brought together 12 international feature film projects in development looking for French and European partners, as well as 6 projects from the Cannes Film Festival Cinefondation Residence.

Official Selection

American Independent Feature-Length Films

Short Films

The Official Selection of Short Films comprises more than 30 films, which were selected by a French industry team as well as four major film school programs: University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, AFI and Columbia University’s Columbia University Film Festival for the United States and Paris-based film schools La Femis, Les Gobelins, EICAR and ARTFX for France.

French Shorts Competitive Selection

French Shorts Selection

La Femis Shorts Selection

Les Gobelins Shorts Selection

ArtFX Shorts Selection

EICAR Shorts Selection

American Shorts Competitive Selection

American Shorts Selection

USC School of Cinematic Arts Shorts Selection

AFI

Columbia University Film Festival Shorts Selection

US in Progress Official Selection

Awards

Audience Prizes

Bloggers Jury Award

Youth Jury Award

US in Progress

Festival theaters

References

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