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The Film wins IFCIC Prize

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Awarded by the Institute for Film and Cultural Industries Financing to a young independent production company, the IFCIC Prize for 2010 went to Paris-based The Film, which succeeds last year’s winner 2.4.7 Films.

Headed by Michaël Gentile, The Film produced Belgian director Fabrice du Welz’s two features (The Ordeal [+see also:
trailer
interview: Fabrice du Welz
film profile
]
, unveiled in Cannes Critics’ Week 2004 and Vinyan [+see also:
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film profile
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, presented out of competition at the Venice Mostra 2008), as well as Elia Suleiman’s The Time That Remains [+see also:
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film profile
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(in competition at the 2009 Cannes Festival) and Nicolas Saada’s Spy(ies) [+see also:
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film profile
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(nominated for the Best Debut Film Cesar 2010).

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The company, which also co-produced Spanish director Jorge Sanchez-Cabezudo’s Angosto [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Alina Sigaro
interview: Belén Bernuy
interview: Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo
film profile
]
(Venice Days 2006), currently has Julie Delpy’s Skylab (see news) in post-production and three projects in development: Syngué Sabour (adaptation by author Atiq Rahimi of his same-named, Goncourt Prize 2008-winning novel), Frédéric Beigbeder’s Love Lasts Three Years and Du Welz’s Alleluia.

IFCIC is an organisation responsible for helping cultural firms to gain access to credit. Thanks to funds granted by the authorities (in particular the National Film and Moving Image Centre (CNC)), IFCIC guarantees the bank credits allocated to producers of cinematic and audiovisual works, technical industries, movie theatre exhibitors, and companies operating in the cultural sector.

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(Translated from French)

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