COLCOA Film Festival 2010

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Find out more about COLCOA "A WEEK OF FRENCH FILM PREMIERES IN HOLLYWOOD" 2010 - the French Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA- (April 19-25, 2010)

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Rencontrez Jeremy Doner, Co-scénariste de ''L'Arnacoeur'' projeté en ouverture du festival COLCOA 2010, à Los Angeles.

Rencontrez Richard Lorber , PDG de Kino and Lorber dont deux films ont été projetés au festival COLCOA 2010, à Los Angeles: ''Deux de la vague" et ''Mademoiselle Chambon''.

Rencontrez Anne-Dominique Toussaint , productrice des films ''Les Beaux Gosses'' (The French Kissers) et ''Le Hérisson'' (The Hedgehog) projetés au festival COLCOA 2010, à Los Angeles.

Discover the french film festival in Los Angeles, COLCOA 2010.

Rencontrez Emmanuel Mouret, réalisateur du film ''Fais-moi plaisir !'' (Please, please me!) projeté au festival COLCOA 2010, à Los Angeles.

Rencontrez Claude Miller, co-réalisateur avec Nathan Miller du film ''Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante'' projeté au festival COLCOA 2010, à Los Angeles.

Rencontrez François Truffart, Directeur du Festival du Film Français à Los Angeles COLCOA, (City Of Lights, City Of Angeles) et découvrez la programmation 2010.Les films seront projetés du 19 au 25 avril, plus d'infos sur www.colcoa.orgMeet François Truffart, Director of the French Film Festival COLCOA (City Of Lights, City Of Angeles) and discover the 2010 programmation.The movies will be screen from 19-25 April, more informations on www.colcoa.org

Tête de Turc takes place in a rough, run-down suburban neighborhood where the law of silence rules. Simon (Pascal Elbé), a doctor, is on his way to tend to an emergency call. Mistaking him for the police, a few local youngsters throw a Molotov cocktail at his car, setting it on fire. They all escape except Bora (newcomer Samir Makhlouf), who gets him out and saves his life. While Simon is in the coma, his brother, police officer Atom (Roschdy Zem, Days of Glory) investigates as the incident becomes more and more publicized in the media. When the French government offers a Good Samaritan medal, Bora is faced with a moral dilemma: betray his friends to get a better life?COLCOA / April 20 at 8:30pmNorth American PremiereIn French with English subtitlesWritten and directed by: Pascal ElbéCinematography by: Jean-François HensgensEditing by: Luc BarnierMusic by: Bruno CoulaisProduced by: Patrick GodeauProduction Company: AlicéleoCoproduction: France 2 CinémaPASCAL ELBÉ started acting and writing for theater in the early 1990s, with two successful plays: Charité bien ordonnée (1992) and Tout baigne ! (1995), which was later adapted to the screen. He won critical acclaim for his role in Father and Sons (COL•COA 2005) which he also co-wrote. He then co-wrote and starred in Bad Faith (COL•COA 2007), directed by co-star Roschdy Zem, and 3 Amis (2007), co-written with director Michel Boujenah. As an actor, he was most recently seen in Blame It on Mum (2009), Baby Love (COL•COA 2009 Audience Special Prize) and A Simple Heart (2008), starring Sandrine Bonnaire. For his directorial debut, Pascal Elbé was inspired by a tragedy that shook the whole country last year in France, when a group of teenagers set a bus on fire and watched its driver burn, almost to her death.

Born in a middle class family, Étienne (Benoît Magimel, A Girl Cut in Two, Intimate Enemies (COL•COA 2008), The Piano Teacher) is now a successful corporate executive. Married to the upper class, elegant Clémence (Julie Gayet, Eight Times Up, Shall We Kiss? (COL•COA 2009), My Best Friend), he is about to take the reigns of the group as the CEO retires. Everything seems to go well for Étienne. At an ATM one day, he sees Patrick (François-Xavier Demaison, Little Nicholas, So Close (COL•COA 2009), Coluche), an old classmate with whom he had lost touch. From that point on, his private and personal life starts to fall apart.COLCOA / April 23 at 7:45 pmInternational PremiereIn French with English subtitlesDirected by: Grégoire VigneronWritten by: Laurent Tirard, Grégoire VigneronCinematography by: Laurent DaillandEditing by: Valérie DeseineMusic by: Christophe La PintaProduced by: Olivier Delbosc, Marc MissonnierProduction Company: Fidélité FilmsCoproduction: Scope PicturesGRÉGOIRE VIGNERON wrote his first short film in 1994, Tête d’ange, directed by Valérie Minetto. He met Laurent Tirard while writing and directing the short film Une Fausse Image de Moi in 2000. They co-wrote a first feature, The Story of My Life (COL•COA 2005 Audience Award), directed by Tirard. They have since collaborated on I Do, directed by Éric Lartigau, the critically acclaimed Molière (2007) and most recently the popular success Little Nicholas (2009), both directed by Tirard. Co-written with Tirard, Immaculate is Vigneron’s directorial debut. They are currently working on an adaptation of the comic book Asterix in Britain, which will also be directed by Tirard. Among his other writing credits, Grégoire Vigneron co-wrote the screenplay of Changing Sides in 2007, an adaptation of a novel by Alix Girod de l’Ain starring Dany Boon (Welcome to the Sticks, COL•COA 2008).

As summer approaches, everyone is itching for action in Boningville, a fictitious place resembling the projects surrounding Paris. Tony Pepperoni and Joe Hustleton had plans to spend the summer at the beach in Santo Rico, but a mix-up with the travel agency ruined their party dreams. Tony tries his luck in the ‘business’ with local honcho Zoran, while Joe lands a dream job working for the local judge and seduces his daughter Clémence. Things get complicated when Tony attempts to break up with his nymphomaniac girlfriend Manuella. Meanwhile, Joe wants to stop hustling but everyone in Boningville knows "where the party’s at". It features the voices of Vincent Cassel (Ocean’s Thirteen, Eastern Promises), Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds, Wicker Park), and French rapper Diam’s.COLCOA / April 21 at 10:15U.S. PremiereIn French with English subtitlesDirected by: Albert Pereira Lazaro, Emmanuel KlotzWritten by: Alexis Dolivet, IZM, Eldiablo, Emmanuel KlotzEditing by: Thibaud CaquotMusic by: Lucien "Papalu", Nicholas VarleyProduced by: Philippe Gompel, Roch LenerProduction Company: MillimagesCoproduction: France 2 Cinéma, Studio 37Round Da Way started as a series of short one-minute clips on Canal +. After two seasons, it reached cult status and the series was bought in over 20 countries. Now an adult animation film, it is a directorial debut for ALBERT PEREIRA-LAZARO and EMMANUEL KLOTZ, who co-wrote the screenplay with Alexis Dolivet, Eldiablo and IZM. Albert Pereira-Lazaro graduated from the animation school Les Gobelins, then joined the production company Millimages. He has won many international awards for his 2D animation series, including a Children’s BAFTA award for Best International Animated Program in 2000 and a Pulcinella award for Best Family Animated Program in 2004. Emmanuel Klotz is also a Gobelins graduate. He was assistant director on the TV series Pablo, The Little Red Fox and storyboarded the TV series Corneil & Bernie (2001).

Adapted by Alain Le Henry (A Self-Made Hero, See How They Fall) from a real-life story and co-directed by Claude Miller and his son Nathan, I am Glad That My Mother is Alive explores childhood trauma and its dire consequences on adult life. Unbeknownst to his adoptive parents, troubled 18 year-old Thomas (newcomer Vincent Rottiers, also in Silent Voices and In the Beginning, both shown at COLCOA) searches for his birth mother, who abandoned him and his brother when they were very young. He finds her single, with a small child, living in a nearby suburb and introduces himself to her. Traumatized by years of emptiness and longing for his mother, he starts an ambiguous relationship with her, part courtship part obsession, which slowly drives him to an act of madness.COLCOA / April 22 at 8:30pmWest Coast PremiereIn French with English subtitlesDirected by: Claude Miller, Nathan MillerWritten by: Alain Le Henry, Claude Miller, Nathan MillerBased on a story by: Emmanuel CarrèreCinematography by: Aurélien DevauxEditing by: Morgane SpacagnaMusic by: Vincent SegalProduced by: Jean-Louis LiviProduction Company: F Comme FilmCoproduction: France 3 Cinéma, Orly Films, Page 114CLAUDE MILLER started his career as assistant director to Robert Bresson, Jacques Demy and Jean-Luc Godard and served as production manager for François Truffaut (1968 to 1975). After a much-noticed debut feature The Best Way to Walk (1976), he turned to thrillers, with This Sweet Sickness (1977), adapted from a Patricia Highsmith novel, The Grilling (1981), César award for Best Screenplay and Deadly Circuit (1982). His subtle portraits of childhood and psychological torment have won critical acclaim: Louis Delluc award for L’Effrontée (1985), Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival for La Classe de Neige, International Critic’s Prize at the 2000 Berlinale for Of Woman and Magic (COLCOA 2000) and Grand Prix des Amériques at the 2007 Montreal World Film Festival for A Secret (COLCOA 2008)

Mourning the loss of a fallen colleague, Aurore (Claude Perron, Chrysalis, Cortex (COL•COA 2008), Amélie), Ouessem (Jean-Pierre Martins, La Vie en Rose (COL•COA 2007), Empire of the Wolves) and their team are determined to take their revenge on the criminals who killed him. But when they assault the apartment building where the gangsters are hiding, they are attacked by a horde of zombies. Understanding that the only way to survive is to become allies, the police officers fight side by side with Jimenez (Aurélien Recoing, Counter Investigation (COL•COA 2008) 13 Tzameti), Adewale (Eriq Ebouaney, Transporter 3, Hitman) and their gang to kill the deadly creatures. Using the zombie genre as a vessel, The Horde is a political & social film about violence, injustice and racism in contemporary societyCOLCOA / Saturday April 24 at 10:00pmNorth American PremiereIn French with English subtitlesDirected by: Yannick Dahan, Benjamin RocherWritten by: Arnaud Bordas, Yannick Dahan, Stéphane Moissakis, Benjamin RocherCinematography by: Julien MeuriceEditing by: Dimitri AmarMusic by: Christopher LennertzProduced by: Raphaël Rocher, Xavier GensProduction Company: Capture the Flag FilmsCoproduction: Le PacteBENJAMIN ROCHER directed his first animation short film in 1999. Titled HominusRex Creator, it was broadcast on Canal Satellite, TPS and HBO. After a second short, Ticket Land (2002), he co-founded the television production company Empreinte Digitale in 2003. He has produced various commercials and programs with YANNICK DAHAN, including Opération Frisson, a popular program about genre films. They also produced Suck My Geek (2007), the first French documentary about geek culture. Dahan and Rocher then co-founded the film production company Capture the Flag Films in 2007, which produced Rivoallan, a short they co-wrote and directed. The Horde is their first feature as writer-directors. Yannick Dahan has been a film critic and editor for the magazine Positif since 1997.

Adapted from the eponymous best-selling novel written by Muriel Barbery, The Hedgehog stars newcomer Garance Le Guillermic as Paloma, a precocious and suicidal 11 year-old who befriends Renée, the secretly erudite concierge of her upscale building (Josiane Balasko, A French Gigolo, Too Beautiful For You, French Twist). An acute observer of her dysfunctional family, Paloma sees an ally in Renée, who frequently reads alone with her cat. A window opens up in Renée’s solitary existence when she is courted by one of her new tenants, the elegant widower Kakuro (Togo Igawa, Speed Racer, Memoirs of a Geisha). As she gets to know Kakuro, Renée softens up and starts to see the possibility of love in her life, while her friendship and her words of wisdom start to change Paloma’s bleak outlook on the adult world.COLCOA / Saturday April 24 at 3:00pmWest Coast PremiereIn French with English subtitlesWritten and directed by: Mona AchacheBased on the novel by: Muriel BarberyCinematography by: Patrick BlossierEditing by: Julia GrégoryMusic by: Gabriel YaredProduced by: Anne-Dominique ToussaintProduction Company: Les Films des TournellesCoproduction: France 2 Cinéma, Pathé Distribution / Pathé International, Topaze BleueYoung filmmaker MONA ACHACHE studied theater and literature before working in film. She worked as assistant director on various features, including Father and Sons (COL•COA 2005). She was also script supervisor on fiction and documentary projects. Before The Hedgehog, she wrote and directed two critically acclaimed short films, popular in the international film circuit: Suzanne (COL•COA 2006), and Wawa (2007), Golden Bear and Audience Award at the Ebensee Festival of Nations. She is also an actress, most recently in Eden is West (COL•COA 2009). She is currently writing a second feature.

French icon Serge Gainsbourg was a singer, writer, composer and painter, but mostly a full time provocateur, famous for his unruly and unpredictable behavior in public. Gainsbourg: Je T’aime...Moi Non Plus is writer-director Joann Sfar’s adaptation of his own comic book, mixing film and animation to recount major events in the life of Gainsbourg: his childhood as a Jew during the war, his muses, addictions and famous public scandals. With a cast including top model Laetitia Casta as Brigitte Bardot, the late Lucy Gordon as Jane Birkin and lead actor Eric Elmosino eerily channeling Gainsbourg, the film is a dreamy portrait of the glamorous, yet destructive life of the artist, who is frequently mentioned as a major musical influence.COLCOA / Saturday, April 24 at 8:30pmWest Coast PremiereIn French with English subtitlesWritten and directed by: Joann SfarCinematography by: Guillaume SchiffmanEditing by: Maryline MonthieuxMusic by: Olivier DaviaudProduced by: Marc du Pontavice, Didier LupferProduction Company: One World FilmsCoproduction: Studio 37, Focus Features International, France 2 Cinéma, Lilou Films, Xilam FilmsWriter-director JOANN SFAR is a prolific, award-winning comic book and graphic novel artist. Since the age of 23, he has published close to 150 works, including the Dungeon series with Lewis Trondheim (since 1998), the Sardine in Outer Space series with Emmanuel Guibert (2006-2008), Little Vampire (2008), Klezmer: Tales of the Wild East (2006) or The Rabbi’s Cat (2006 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material). Following his first feature Gainsbourg: Je T’aime...Moi Non Plus, he co-directed an adaptation of The Rabbi’s Cat with Antoine Delesvaux, to be released in June 2010. He has also written several novels, directed animation short films, and directs a collection of books for children for Gallimard Jeunesse.

Heartbreaker is an action-packed romantic comedy, led by actress-singer Vanessa Paradis (Girl on the Bridge, The Key) and art house heartthrob Romain Duris (The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Paris (COL•COA 2008), Russian Dolls). Duris is Alex, a professional Don Juan who makes a living breaking up couples with his sister Mélanie (Julie Ferrier, MicMacs). Because business is slow, they go against their principles to break up only unhappy couples and agree to work for M. Van Der Bercq. Alex has one week to stop Van Der Bercq's daughter Juliette (Vanessa Paradis) from marrying the man she is madly in love with. This questionable mission becomes hazardous for Alex, as he enters the world of the beautiful, self-assured and independent Juliette and her seemingly perfect boyfriend, Jonathan.COLCOA Opening Night Gala / Monday April 19North American PremiereIn French with English subtitlesDirected by: Pascal ChaumeilWritten by: Laurent Zeitoun, Jeremy Doner, Yoann GrombCinematography by: Thierry ArbogastEditing by: Dorian Rigal-AnsousMusic by: Klaus BadeltProduced by: Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou, Laurent ZeitounProduction Company: Yumé Quad FilmsCoproduction: Universal Pictures International FrancePASCAL CHAUMEIL wrote and directed his first short film in 1995, Des Hommes avec des bas, awarded Best Short at the 1996 Festival du Film Policier in Cognac. He followed with the science-fiction short Liens Sacrés (2001). Before directing Heartbreaker, his first feature, Pascal Chaumeil worked on several feature films with Luc Besson as First Assistant Director (The Professional) or Second Unit Director (The Fifth Element, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc). He has also directed over 100 commercials and directed films for television such as Clémence (2003) and Mer belle à agitée (2006), as well as episodes for the acclaimed TV series Spiral (2005), L’État de Grâce (2006), Desperate Parents (2007/2008) or Duel en Ville (2008).