Grant winners
From an interactive installation that recreates the sun’s path to a report on the collapse of Toyota City, Japan, which has been hit hard by the financial crisis, from the record of an album with three outstanding musicians: Lee Konitz, Paul Motian and Gary Peacock to the writting of a series, Harem, a historical saga set in the 16th-century Ottoman Empire, the panel of judges was enchanted with every grant winner’s project. This year, the number of candidates was particularly high and as everyone noted, so was the quality of the projects presented.
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2009 Grant winners
Documentary writer
Alice Diop prefers to talk about other people – in both real life and her films. Born in 1979 in Aulnay sous Bois (just outside Paris), she fell into the world of documentaries by chance...
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Animated Filmmaker
Léo Verrier is well aware of the significance of images. His mother was a graphic designer and there were always paintings on the living room walls, factors that will help develop an artistic sensibility or create a vocation...
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Musician
Alexandra Grimal had every reason to take piano lessons, what with music-loving parents, a violinist brother and a piano taking pride of place in the living room...
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Musician
Pauline is smiling. She’s not used to talking about herself. She’s 26 years old, and her stage name, Mina Tindle, has a transatlantic ring to it – but she’s Parisian by birth, with Spanish roots... SPECIAL AWARD
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Digital creator
When you find yourself face to face with a Marie-Julie Bourgeois installation, you tend to be dumbfounded. In Extension of the Void, Marie-Julie reinterprets the phenomenon of proliferating surveillance cameras...
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Film producer
Jean Klotz could have worked in finance: he had the right profile, education and ambition. “I was a serious student, so I chose serious subjects,” he says with amusement....
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Journalist
When she was little, Léna Mauger thought she would be an adventuress in the South Seas or an explorer on the Siberian plains. She’d developed a taste for travel at her mother’s side as they journeyed far and wide...
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TV Screenwriter
Camille and David could easily never have met. If they had stuck to their original plans, Camille would be a French teacher and David a lawyer – but life always has surprises in store...
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Photographer
Julien had no more reason to become a photographer than an astronaut, but by age seven his aim was very clear: to become a photographer.
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Writer
When his school teacher asked him to write about his holidays, Gilbert Gatore filled up several pages. By age thirteen, he was keeping a personal diary, in which he recounted what occurs in Rwanda...
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Bookseller
Jean Pichinoty is not alone in his bookshop, La soupe de l’Espace (Space Soup – ‘Soup’ to nourish the body and ‘Space’ to nourish dreams); his wife is there with him. Just a few months back, the pair knew nothing about bookshops...
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