At a meeting held on May 3, the members of the jury for the 2019 UniFrance Short Film Awards watched the 24 films included in the selection and chose six winners. The winning films were announced at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 23, at the UniFrance Terrace in Cannes, with the award winning directors and producers in attendance.
The UniFrance Short Film Awards aim to shine a light on the bold creativity of up-and-coming directors and producers. Our mission at UniFrance is to work side-by-side with these emerging talents to ensure that their work is seen by audiences and industry professionals around the world, thus highlighting the constant renewal of creative talent in French cinema.
The complete selection of finalists can be seen here.
Award winners
UniFrance Grand Prize and the Grand Action Prize
Ahmed’s Song by Foued Mansour
Production company: offshore
Special Jury Prize
Due West by Alice Douard
Production companies: The Living & Deuxième Ligne Films
Be TV Prize
One After the Other by Nicolas Pegon
Production company: Miyu Productions
Movistar+ Prize
Per Aspera Ad Astra by Franck Dion
Production company: Papy3D Productions
RTBF Prize
Tomorrow Will Be Brighter by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
Production companies: Move Movie & RnB! Films
Special Mention from the Jury
My Branch So Thin by Dinara Droukarova
Production company: Rouge International
The jury members Marie-Neige Coche, Isabelle Gibbal-Hardy, Flor Lurienne, Benjamin Croll, and Holger Carlsson were present at the awards ceremony.
The following UniFrance partners were also present:
TITRAFILM (represented by Sophie Frilley and Stéphane Chirol), Courant3D (François Serre), Shortfilmdepot, and Sauve Qui Peut le Court Métrage
Members of the jury:
- Guadalupe Arensburg Caellas – Moviestar+ Spain
- Bénédicte Bourgois – RTBF
- Marie-Neige Coche – teacher
- Isabelle Gibbal-Hardy – manager of the Grand Action Cinema
- Camille Japy – actor
- Sylvie Landra – editor
- Flor Lurienne – actor, director
- Stéphane Cabel – screenwriter
- Holger Carlsson – Hollywood Film Festival
- Benjamin Croll – journalist
- Jacopo Chessa – Italian National Short Film Center
- Stéphane Freiss – actor
- Vincent Ravalec – writer, director
- Gilles Reunis – BeTV Belgium
Awards
UniFrance Grand Prize:
- For the production company: €2,500, including €1,000 toward automatic promotion aid
- 50 "stamps" offered by the Shortfilmdepot platform
- TITRAFILM: €1,500 toward technical services for the director's next film
- Free UniFrance membership in 2020
- For the director: €300 + free UniFrance membership in 2020 + 3D smartphone including the winner of the Best French 3D Short Film award courtesy of the Courant 3D Short Film Festival
Special Jury Prize:
- For the production company: €500 + free UniFrance membership in 2020
- 50 "stamps" offered by the Shortfilmdepot platform
- For the director: €300 + free UniFrance membership in 2020 + 3D smartphone including the winner of the Best French 3D Short Film award courtesy of the Courant 3D Short Film Festival
Broadcasters' Prize:
- Acquisition and broadcast of the film on foreign broadcast networks represented in the jury (for a film not yet broadcast on these networks)
Grand Action Prize:
- For the production company: free UniFrance membership in 2020
- Theatrical release of the film for a period of one week at Le Grand Action cinema in Paris, screened prior to a feature film
- 50 "stamps" offered by the Shortfilmdepot platform
- For the director: free UniFrance membership in 2020
Partners
TITRAFILM / Shortfilmdepot / Courant 3D
Associated Events:
As loyal partners of UniFrance, the following events are committed to supporting the award winners by programming several films from the selection of finalists and/or award-winning films at their festivals:
- Kiev Molodist International Film Festival
- Tübingen-Stuttgart International French-Language Film Festival
- International Festival of Francophone Film in Acadie (FICFA)
- Hollywood Film Festival
- Torino Short Film Market
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Tübingen | Stuttgart International French-language Film Festival - 2017
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International Festival of Francophone Film in Acadie (FICFA) - 2018
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