On April 16, the second edition of the Video Awards-IESA 2019 ceremony was held at IESA arts&culture. This event is organized by our Bachelor in Cultural Mediation and Production students at IESA arts&culture. The ceremony aims to reward original short films. The main goal of the Video Awards is to promote and give visibility to quality short films. The selection is made by the students, as is the choice of winners, under the supervision of their professor Philippe Di Folco.
The students organized this event from A to Z: selection of the videos, date, jury, evening, partners, right down to the design of the certificate received by each winner, since there were several, which had to be formatted and sealed with wax.
More than a hundred short films were in competition this year!
Many lively debates followed within the team during the screenings, but also genuine favorites, whether first attempts by students or works by already veteran directors.
The students had prepared a little surprise for the 23 nominated films: all of them will be screened this summer at the "Films sous les étoiles" festival held at the Domaine de Saint-Cloud.
In the official competition this year, here are the 2019 Video Awards winners:
Nominated for the Jury Favorite:
- The First Step by David Noblet and Arnaud Guez
- Indic by Maxime Chefdeville
- Je suis nue by Alexandra Mignien.
The First Step won a one-year subscription to the festival distribution platform Cinemads and 2 invitations to the Centre Pompidou cinema!
Nominated for the Video Awards Team Favorite:
- Maintenant on peut mourir en paix by Arnaud Guez
- La dernière part by Quentin Moyon
- Je suis Gigi Bang Bang by Maxime Nieto
Maintenant on peut mourir en paix and La dernière part each won a Simeo popcorn machine, a SoFilm subscription, and 2 invitations to the Centre Pompidou cinema!
Nominated for the Best Story award:
- Indic by Maxime Chefdeville,
- Je suis nue by Alexandra Mignien
- Je suis un reflet by Hervé Faula
Indic won 1 year of membership to the author/producer meeting platform "WeFilmGood" from the Maison des Scénaristes and 2 invitations to the Centre Pompidou cinema!
For the Best Animated Film award, we had 3 nominees… all of them winners!
- My psycho fan by Loe Certano won 2 accreditations for the Annecy festival
- NoFilter by Rebecca Nakache won an XP-Pen graphics tablet
- Une lumière dans la nuit by Marie Grymonpré and Adrien Verbeck also won 1 XP-Pen graphics tablet
Nominated for the Best Visual Atmosphere award:
- CAP by Martin Genty
- Fatal Labial by Esteban Sacnhez del Rio
- Hell Broke Luz by Loïc Hobi
CAP won several sessions in the FabLab of the Maison des Pratiques Artistiques et Amateurs, 1 SoFilm subscription, and 2 invitations to the Centre Pompidou cinema!
Nominated for the Best Sound Atmosphere award:
- Dies Irae by Jordan Damour
- Orphée et Eurydice by Manon Assens and Etienne Raillon
- Stress by Simon Dauchy, Tom Delforge, Antoine Wilmot, Théo Mechref, and Julien Delcroix
Dies Irae won an XP-Pen graphics tablet, 1 SoFilm subscription, and 2 invitations to the Centre Pompidou cinema!
Nominated for the Best Editing award:
À tout prix by Alexia Merré
En arrière by Briac Picart Hellec
Indic by Maxime Chefdeville
À tout prix received a post-production session at Digital District and 2 invitations to the Centre Pompidou cinema!
Nominated for the Best Performance award:
- The Dream by Léa Rouaud
- Billy by Briac Picart Hellec
- The Fruit of Thy Womb by Maxime Faure
The Dream won a book pack from the Zeugma bookstore, 1 SoFilm subscription, and 2 passes to the Zelimir Zilnik retrospective at the Centre Pompidou cinema!
Finally, 5 films were selected by the association 1001 images, which will screen them during its open-air cinema sessions:
- Nuages au sol by Wendy Salin
- Seiiku by Hugo Greiner and Lou-Anne Abdou
- Dies Irae by Jordan Damour
- The First Step by David Noblet and Arnaud Guez
- My psycho fan by Loe Certano
We are sharing a few images of this wonderful evening with you.