Carole Scotta
Winner of the 1992 Film producer Grant
Laurent Cantet's film, The class, obtained the Golden Palm in Cannes festival. The film is produced by Haut et Court, Carole Scotta's compagny.
The Jean - Luc Lagardère Foundation shares the enjoyment of the producer Carole Scotta and all of her team, after the obtaining of the Golden palm at the Cannes film festival 2008 for Laurent Cantet's film " The class".
Laurent Cantet's film, based on a work of contemporary fiction by French writer François Bégaudeau, is a semi-autobiographical account of Bégaudeau's experiences as a literature teacher in an inner city middle school in Paris.
Achievements since winning the grant:
In 1998, Haut et Court, Carole Scotta’s production company, produced Ma vie en rose, by Alain Berliner. The film won the 1998 Golden Globe for the best foreign film.
In 1998, she produced 2000 vu par… a series of films for Arte.
In 1999, she produced Passion of Mind, written by Ron Bass and directed by Alain Berliner, with Demi Moore, Followed by Quelque Chose d’Organique by Bertrand Bonello, nominated for the Panorama at the Berlin Film Festival in 1999 and the first feature length film by Emilie Deleuze, Peau Neuve, nominated for Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival in 1999 (FIPRESCI prize).
In 2001, Carole Scotta produced Ressources humaines, by Laurent Cantet (César award for the best first film and the César for the best male newcomer for Jalil Lespert). In the same year, she also produced Le Pornographe by Bertrand Bonello (Fipresci prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001), L’emploi du temps, by Laurent Cantet (Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2001) and Tiresia, the third film by Bertrand Bonello (Officially nominated for the Cannes Competition in 2003).
In 2002, she produced Qui a tué Bambi?, by Gilles Marchand and La Sirène rouge, directed by Olivier Megaton.
In 2005, Backstage, a feature length film directed by Emmanuelle Bercot, was released in cinemas. In the same year, she produced Vers le Sud, by Laurent Cantet.
In 2006, she produced La Vie d’artiste by Marc Fitoussi.
2007 witnessed the cinema release of Entre les murs by Laurent Cantet and Notre univers impitoyable by Léa Fazer. In the same year, Haut et Court produced its first animated film, Piccolo Saxo et C°, directed by Eric Gutierrez and Marco Villamizar.
To read the Jean-Luc Lagardère Fondation press release about the obtaining of the Golden Palm 2008, click here
Her portrait
In July 1991, when she was just twenty five years old, Carole Scotta founded her own production company, Haut et Court. Enterprising and determined, Carole has been dreaming up projects since the very start: Mouvances, a series of ten short films devoted to contemporary dance, Lettre aimée, a series of stories written on the basis of love letters. It was with A Cran, a project which was awarded the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation grant, that Haut et Court moved into the production of feature length films. Its subject: A man and a woman who, together, rediscover the pleasure of being alive. This marked the beginning of a new era for this independent producer, who, since then, has constantly produced and distributed ten or so films a year and created ambitious cinema.
To see the video of Carole Scotta speaking about the grant of the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation, click here
Carol Scotta talks about the production of the Golden Palm 2008, click here
