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Film Production
Directing Course
Nobuhiro Suwa, Professor
Born in Became involved in independent movies while attending Tokyo Zokei University. After graduating and gaining experience in producing TV documentaries, he directed 2/Duo (), which won the NETPAC Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. He was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize in the Parallel Sections at Cannes Film Festival for M/Other. Other major works include H Story, Paris, je t’aime (omnibus), Un Couple Parfait, which won the Special Prize of the Jury at the Locarno International Film Festival, and Yuki & Nina. He is known for his filmmaking approach that uses loosely written scripts.
Directing Course
Akihiko Shiota, Professor
Born in Starts his career with 8mm independent films as a university student. In , he simultaneously released Moonlight Whispers and Don’t Look Back. Then, Harmful Insect () was selected for the Venice International Film Festival, and later won the Special Jury Prize at t
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Death of filmmaker Patrick Grandperret
Born on 24 October in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés to a father who was an optical engineer (reportedly the designer of unbreakable lenses for a brand of eyeglasses), Patrick Grandperret, after having completed studies that initially put him on the path of economics and business, decided to change course for film photography, and participated in the shooting of Bel ordure by Jean Marbeuf in , and La Fille du garde-barrière by Jérôme Savary in
Once he’d had his first taste of the world of cinema, he directed and produced short films and became the assistant director to Nadine Trintignant (Le Voyage de noces, ), Claude Goretta (La Dentellière, ), Maurice PIalat (Passe ton bac d’abord, , and Loulou in ), Jean-Louis Trintignant (Le Maître-nageur, ) and Claude Faraldo (Deux lions au soleil, ).
After directing some documentaries for Pathé Cinéma and the INA, Patrick Grandperret directed his first feature-length bio, Court Circuits,
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Producer Patrick Sobelman & Gaumont Exec Ariane Toscan du Plantier To Head Up France’s César Academy
Their mandate begins on July 16 for two years. Sobelman was previously vice-president of the César Academy alongside outgoing president Véronique Cayla.
The president and vice-president, the members of the executive Academy Office, who assist them in their work, as well as the heads of the 22 professionals chapters were voted on by the members of the general assembly of the Association for the Promotion of Cinema, the umbrella body overseeing Cesar Academy. The general assembly members are in turn voted in by the some 4, members of the academy.
Since , the Apchas stipulated gender parity across the César Academy’s Presidency, Academy Office and differ