08/01/2014 - The prizes awarded by the French guild of screenwriters will reward the Best Original Screenplay and the Best Adaptation

Laurent Tirard

As the only prizes awarded by screenwriters to their peers, the Prévert Awards 2014 will be handed out on February 4, 2014. For the 6^th edition of the trophy, the 300 members of the French guild of screenwriters pre-selected eight films amongst the feature films of French initiatives released in 2013. The jury, co-presided this year by Laurent Tirard and Grégoire Vigneron (Rent a Wife [+see also:
trailer
film profile], Little Nicholas [+see also:
trailer
film profile]), will choose two laureates in the Best Original Screenplay and Best Adaptation categories.

Best Original Screenplay
9 Months Stretch [+see also:
trailer
film profile], written by Albert Dupontel
The Past [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], written by Asghar Farhadi, adapted by Massoumeh Lahidji
Stranger by the Lake [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Alain Guiraudie
film profile], written by Alain Guiraudie
Queen of Montreuil [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Solveig Anspach
film profile], written by Solveig Anspach and Jean-Luc Gaget
A Castle in Italy [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
film profile], written by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Agnès de Sacy and Noémie Lvovsky

Best Adaptation
Blue is the Warmest Colour [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Abdellatif Kechiche
film profile], written by Abdellatif Kechiche and Ghalya Lacroix, based on the work of Julie Maroh
Me Myself and Mum [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], written by Guillaume Gallienne, based on his own work
Quai d'Orsay [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], written by Bertrand Tavernier, Christophe Blain and Antonin Baudry, based on the work of Abel Lanzac et C. Blain

(Translated from French)