The jury for the UniFrance Films Short Film Prize gathered in Paris on April 25 to view the 15 films in competition.
The following 15 short films are competing for the 2014 UniFrance Films Short Film Prize:
Billie's Blues by Louis Jean Gore
Finistère by Théo Jourdain
Gangster Backstage by Teboho Edkins
Juke-Box by Ilan Klipper
La Femme de Rio by Emma Luchini
The Passenger by Amaury Brumauld
The Little Stones by Chloé Mazlo
Molii by C. May, M. Boudaoud, Y Qnia, and H. Zouhani
We Are All Leaning... by Simon Lelouch
Ogre by Jean-Charles Paugam
Faded Finery by Sonia Gerbeaud and Mathias De Panafieu
Shadow by Lorenzo Recio
Solo Rex by François Bierry
Your Violence by Antoine Raimbault
This year's jury members are: Guadalupe Arensburg Caellas (Canal+ Spain), Paola Ruggeri (RTI Italy), Sandrine Waller (RTS Switzerland), Alexandre Gavras, producer and winner of the UniFrance Films Short Film Prize in 2013 for Just Before Losing Everything (KG Productions), Frédéric Dubreuil, producer and winner of the Procirep Prize for Best Producer at Clermont-Ferrand 2014 (Envie de Tempête Productions), Pierro Murat (Télérama magazine), Jean-Paul Sermadiras (actor), Olivier Duval (Digimage), Jean-Claude Beineix (Continental Media Assurances/Siaci Saint Honoré), Gabrielle Lazure (actor), and Evgueni Galperine (composer).
The UniFrance Films Grand Prix comprises:
- €1000 for the film's producer
- €500 for the film's director
- €4,500 towards post-production costs donated by LVT to the producer for his or her next short film
- €500 donated by Continental Media Assurances/SIACI Saint Honoré to the producer for his or her next short film
The UniFrance Films and TV Coup de Cœur (Special Favorite) Prize (or Prizes) consists of:
The acquisition and broadcast by one or more foreign television networks, who are jury members, of a film that has not previously been broadcast on these networks. Prize-winning films will participate in the following festivals:
- International Festival of Francophone Film in Acadie (FICFA) (Canada): in competition, only if the film's production language is French
- Tübingen | Stuttgart International French-language Film Festival (Germany): in competition if the film's runtime is under 20 minutes, and out of competition if its runtime is over 20 minutes
- Festival Curta Cinema (Brazil): out of competition in the International Panorama section
- Peace & Love Film Festival (Sweden): in competition if the film's runtime is under 20 minutes, and out of competition if its runtime is over 20 minutes
The awards ceremony will be held during the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, May 22, at 6:00 p.m. at the UniFrance Films Pavilion in the Espace Pantiero.
