TV Screenwriter grant
Selection criteria
Must be 30 years of age or younger. This grant will be awarded to a young screenwriter with a television screenplay project (TV film, sitcom, TV series, TV mini-series, short film or cartoon, using traditional or computer-generated images). The jury will make its decision based on the originality of the subject matter, the form and the writing strategy used.
2007
When Stéphanie Kalfon came across a screenplay by pure chance as a teenager, the day changed her life. "Everything suddenly made perfect sense, whereas school just seemed to leave me confused", she says...
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2006
“When I was little, Baba Yaga terrified me," Christophe Gautry recalls. His mother, who was from Poland, introduced him to this most frightening of witches in Slavic stories. Baba Yaga made such an impression that he devoted his first film...
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2004
Since his childhood, Angelo Cianci has been fantasizing about South America, “an idyllic, faraway, inaccessible place” where he goes every year. He has travelled throughout the continent...
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2003
Gioacchino loves bubbly, light-hearted American comedies, high-tempo shows with dialog and action that flow in quick, mechanical succession with no breathing space in between...
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2002
SPECIAL AWARD
At the University of Paris I, where they studied dramatic arts, specializing in cinema, people used to mistake them for twins. They are, in fact, both Geminis. Bénédicte and Magaly have been ...
2002
The two writers seemed predisposed to understand each other from the outset, and that is exactly what happened. When they met at the Fémis school of audiovisual studies...
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2001
SPECIAL AWARD
It all began with dinners in town and the inevitable "nostalgia scenes"; it continued with the myths of "adolescence", which today have led the 80s generation to spend hours wiggling their hips to the sounds of Casimir and Chantal Goya...
2001
When you grow up with a father who is a reporter and cameraman for TF1, you develop a taste for images, situations, and on-the-spot reporting at a very young age. For Eglantine Pottiez de Cesari, writing screenplays quickly went beyond a vocation: it was more an inevitability...
2000
The writing is light, lively, funny and punchy. Against a frenetic New York backdrop, a cast of anachronistic characters from a diverse range of backgrounds move in and out of each others' lives and homes....
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1999
The script for Tête Gréné, co-written with Roland Brival, immediately impressed Pierre Chevalier, the director of made-for-TV films at Arte and a member of the judges’ panel for the TV Screenwriter grant...
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1998
At the age of 29, Stéphane Galas had already established an impressive track record when he was awarded the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation grant for his screenplay, Le Bon Fils...
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1997
Virginie Boda’s project, Paris-Deauville, required a huge effort to gather background material. “I strongly believe in the fact-finding stage of a script to make sure that I don’t betray the characters I am going to portray, or the audience...
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1997
SPECIAL AWARD
From his years at a Jesuit school (a period cut short due to disciplinary problems), Laurent Duret primarily remembers his discovery of the Super 8 camera...
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1996
If she had not become a screenwriter, she would have liked to put on a white physician's uniform. But Catherine Hoffmann had long since been infected with the writing bug, and she was so determined to write that, after earning her Bac diploma...
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1996
Until he turned 15, he wanted to be an actor, even though by age 10 he had already written a number of short stories that he "never finished". By age 20, Arthur-Emmanuel Pierre knew that writing would be part of his daily life...
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1995
Ciné Sup in Nantes, and then Paris’ FEMIS in the Screenwriting department: the path was clear for Nathalie Stragier, originally from Tourcoing. "Screenwriting is the perfect profession for me, because I like to write and work alone." ...
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1994
The male jury of the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation was impressed by an “anti-macho” work, Les Baisers. Marc Boyer adds the magic of the fairytale to the cliché of the kiss, a familiar, lyrical cinematographic moment par excellence...
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1993
At age 17, Raynal Pellicer started his career in the theatre, where he dreamed of directing Arlette Tephany. Two years later, he attended the Cours Florent acting school in Paris. “I never wanted to be an actor; I simply wanted to...
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1992 (en)
It was in England that Phil Ox (real name Philippe Nguyen) took the first steps in an eventful career as a TV producer...
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1991 (en)
A graduate of the école Louis Lumière, Christian Pfohl made his debut as part of the 24 poètes secondes movement, a group of inspired and enthusiastic friends with a passion for technology, and in particular for pixilation...
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