Cinéfranco
Cinéfranco is an annual film festival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which presents a weeklong program of both Canadian and international French language films.[1]
The festival was established in 1997 by Marcelle Lean,[2] a former chair of the Ontario Film Development Corporation,[3] and was staged for the first time in February 1998.[4] Lean remains the event's executive director as of 2015.
Unlike larger events such as the Toronto International Film Festival, all films throughout the week are screened in a single theatre venue.[5] To establish broader audience appeal beyond the city's francophone community alone, all films are screened with English language subtitles.[6]
Separately from the main festival, an annual youth program of films for children and teenagers is also staged.[5] The separate youth program was launched for the first time in 2007.
The festival presents an annual award, the Radio-Canada Audience Award, to the film voted by festival attendees as the best film in that year's program.[7] TFO also formerly sponsored an award for the most popular film in the youth program.
Radio-Canada Audience Award
- 2009: Paris, Cédric Klapisch
- 2010: Female Agents (Les Femmes de l'ombre), Jean-Paul Salomé
- 2011: Il reste du jambon?, Anne Depétrini
- 2012: Free Men (Les Hommes libres), Ismaël Ferroukhi
- 2013: What's in a Name? (Le Prénom), Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière
- 2014: The Gilded Cage (La Cage dorée), Ruben Alves
TFO Prize for Best Youth Film
- 2009: The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre), Benoît Pilon
- 2010: Little Nicholas (Le Petit Nicolas), Laurent Tirard
- 2011: Trouble at Timpetill, Nicolas Bary
- 2012: War of the Buttons, Yann Samuel
References
- ↑ "Cinefranco focuses on francophone films". Toronto Star, March 27, 2014.
- ↑ "Film fest to bring French movies out of obscurity: February's cinefranco is the brainchild of its well-connected executive director". The Globe and Mail, January 21, 1998.
- ↑ "OFDC chair appointed". The Globe and Mail, February 9, 1998.
- ↑ "Festival opens a door to French film". The Globe and Mail, February 27, 1998.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Bringing more than l'amour to the English". Toronto Star, March 26, 2010.
- ↑ "Screening the real French cinema ; Second annual Cinefranco festival celebrates popular francophone film". Toronto Star, February 18, 1999.
- ↑ "Cinefranco wraps with awards to Paris, Pilon". The Globe and Mail, April 9, 2009.