Author: Fifac Festival

On the occasion of the commemoration of the abolition of slavery, the Territorial Collectivity of French Guiana organizes the Days of Memory, Resistance and Abolition.
In this context, discover two films presented during the 4th edition of the FIFAC:
  •  In the name of our ancestors, slaves and traders byAurélie Bambuck at the EMAK, Écomusée Municipal d'Approuague-Kaw in Régina on May 26, 2023.
  • Paroles de Nègres by Sylvaine Dampierre at the Georges Othily Media Library in Iracoubo on June 9, 2023.
In the Name of Our Ancestors screening on May 26, 2023 at EMAK in Regina
Screening of Paroles de Nègres on June 9 at the Georges Othily Media Library in Iracoubo
Find all the information and the complete program of the days on the website of the CTG: https: //www.ctguyane.fr/

Relive the closing ceremony of the 4th edition of Fifac.

This event, animated by Marielle Salmier, took place on the stage of the mango tree projection site on Saturday, October 15, 2022 and closed a very nice week of film projections.

Closing Ceremony 2022
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MASTERCLASS - EDOUARD MONTOUTE

WHEN?

Friday 14/10/2022 
- From 5 to 6:30 pm (French Guiana)

HOW TO ATTEND?

  IN PRESENT

TRANSPORTATION CAMP - BOX 8

  Replay

Edouard Montoute's Masterclass
Hosted by Marielle Salmier (actor), with Serge Abatucci (actor).

Thematic

The acting profession in film, theater and television.

With more than 100 films to his credit, the actor of Guyanese origin will talk about his career in theater, cinema and television, and will exchange with the public.

SPEAKER

Edouard MONTOUTE

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Originally from Cayenne, Edouard Montoute then lives in the Paris region. He joined the Free Class of the Florent school, and appeared for the first time on the big screen in Jean Galmot, adventurer by Alain Maline. He then played for many directors such as Olivier Assayas, Xavier Durringer, Brian de Palma. But he is best known to the general public for his roles in Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra by Alain Chabat (2001), La Haine by Mathieu Kassovitz (1994) or in the Taxi saga. He continues by alternating cinema and television: the series Flics, Les petits mouchoirs by Guillaume Canet (2010), Enfermés dehors by Albert Dupontel (2006) or La première étoileby Lucien Jean-Baptiste (2009), which he will meet again for the film 30° couleur in 2011. Since 2014, Edouard also devotes himself to writing and directed in 2019 his first short film Ma Dame au Camélia, awarded in many festivals. He is working on the writing and development of a series, two feature films and plans to direct a play by Ivorian author Koffi Kwahulé.

This round table on Friday, October 14, deals with the expectations of the profession, which are multiple and festivals must adapt to fully play their role as a driving force. Exchanges between professionals from different territories will help identify new needs to positively influence the economic development of the sector and the place of women in these professions.

Conference to see in its entirety by following this link.

Interview with Irina Ruiz Figueroa (director of the ACAMPADOC festival, Panama).

MARTINIQUE

Stéphanie SAXEMARD

- STEP : in development

SUMMARY

This film traces the life of Nicolas Labiche, a 104 year old Robertin and former fisherman. He is the precursor of the impasse Labiche in the village of Robert. In this film, he tells us about 70 years of life and past experiences in this small neighborhood of Robert. The film oscillates between real images and animated images, mixing reality and fiction to give an account, through the story of a man and his family, of a reality sometimes forgotten in the history of Martinique.

The author

Stéphanie Saxemard is a writer-director and director of photography for non-fiction films. After a Master 2 in Research in Comparative Politics and International Cooperation from the University of the West Indies and French Guiana and a Master of Arts in Human Rights from the University of London, Stéphanie works in NGOs as a researcher, analyst and then coordinator. In 2016, she trained in documentary filmmaking at Ateliers Varan. Her cinéma vérité explores themes of identity, migration and the environment through intimate, character-driven narratives.

WHEN?

PITCH SESSION
WEDNESDAY 12/10/22

- From 9:00 am to 12:30 pm ( French Guiana)
- From 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm (Paris time)

FRENCH GUIANA

Thibault VERNERET

- STEP : in development

SUMMARY

1999. My big brother Guillaume leaves the metropolis to try his luck in French Guiana, as a zouk musician. There, attracted by the risk and the money, he turns to drug trafficking. Finally arrested, he spent five years in prison. 20 years later, I try to understand his drift. Based on the story he wrote during his incarceration, I set out on his trail at French Guiana and began a dialogue with him.

The author

Trained in visual anthropology at the University of Paris-Nanterre, Thibault Verneret joined L'École documentaire de Lussas in 2017. His latest short film, Car les hommes passent, co-directed with Assia Piqueras, was selected in several international festivals (Ji.hlava IDFF, Clermont ISFF, Filmer le travail, Corsica. Doc...), and broadcast on France 3 (Libre court).

WHEN?

PITCH SESSION
WEDNESDAY 12/10/22

- From 9:00 am to 12:30 pm ( French Guiana)
- From 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm (Paris time)

Life, murga and carnival

PANAMA

Omar CALVO

- STEP : in development

SUMMARY

Professor Juan Vega, the last member of an old orchestra, wants to record an album like in his time. At more than 80 years old, he reflects on his life's achievements and his role in the origin of one of the most popular musical genres in the country: La Murga.
To achieve his goal, he must overcome his prejudices about the new generations and enlist the help of a group of students who, although interested in the musical project, face more difficult challenges, such as graduating from school and the uncertain socio-economic future of modern Panama.

The author

Panamanian producer, graduate of the Higher School of Cinema and Audiovisual of Catalonia (ESCAC) in Barcelona, Omar is the founder of the production company Opera Films.
Winner in 2021 of the National Film Fund award for the development of the drama The Cordillera. Project currently in development.
His short documentary film Memorias del Chagres was released in 2021, obtaining several international selections, including the San Diego Latino Film Festival. He is developing Vida, Murga y Carnival, a feature documentary, which participated in the ACAMPADOC 2022 residency and the SAPCINE Producers' Hall of the Cali Film Festival. 

WHEN?

PITCH SESSION
WEDNESDAY 12/10/22

- From 9:00 am to 12:30 pm ( French Guiana)
- From 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm (Paris time)

LAALOUTACONI

"Witness : The first Kalinagos journalists

GUADELOUPE

Damien LANSADE

Cyrille CHARPENTIER

- STEP : in writing

SUMMARY

Moreen, Jenny and Vincia are Kalinagos from Dominica, the last Amerindians of the Caribbean. These three young women feel that the story of their people is confiscated: foreign journalists spend a few days in their community and leave immediately. They do not recognize themselves in this mirror that is held up to them. So, today, they study journalism to tell their own reality. As journalists, we also question our own legitimacy to tell a reality that is foreign to us. The questions of our characters are similar to our own. We had the idea of a mirror game: we give them a camera, teach them how to use it and we film this learning process. By denouncing the problems of their community from the inside, Moreen, Jenny and Vincia will be directly confronted with the consequences of their revelations. The resulting film, in the form of a making of, questions the distance between a story and the person telling it. 

The authors

Damien Lansade and Cyrille Charpentier have been journalists and authors for ten years. Childhood friends, they now crisscross the Caribbean with their camera and regularly write reports for Arte, France 24, France 3 or Neo.

After a few years as a journalist in French Guiana, then in Martinique, Damien founded in Guadeloupe his own executive production company, Lobster Prod, in 2020. Cyrille was a correspondent in New Delhi for 6 years and joined Lobster Prod in 2021. In 2017, he directed the documentary Sacred Cows for Spicee, with Babel Press. He is also the author of the comic book Kessel, la naissance du Lion, published by Arènes in April 2022.

WHEN?

PITCH SESSION
WEDNESDAY 12/10/22

- From 9:00 am to 12:30 pm ( French Guiana)
- From 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm (Paris time)

the young woman on the river

GUADELOUPE

Jackie TAVERNIER

- STEP : in writing

SUMMARY

Arlène, a teacher of ultramarine origin, is about to take up her first position as a teacher in a nursery school in Papaïchton, one hundred and eighty-six kilometers from the mouth of the Maroni River. She shares with her students a common past with the former French colonies in America. As soon as the school year starts, Arlène is confronted with children who neither speak nor understand French nor even a Creole that she can understand. How to respond to the institution's injunction: to provide a program in French and to evaluate its acquisition?

The students who arrive in large numbers, by pirogue from their "campoes" (neighborhoods), leave neither their identity nor their representations of the world at the school's door; as for the teachers, they must constantly adapt. Between the most experienced, the "whites" or "creoles" who have established themselves and the new ones like Arlène, various strategies and disparate pedagogies are deployed. Thrust into the heart of these social and cultural disparities, between vulnerability, isolation and feelings of guilt, she lives a perilous personal and pedagogical adventure. Faced with otherness and the paradox of having to transmit a dominant culture, with the need to invent a real "art of doing" on a daily basis, she is going to live a decisive year that will deeply upset her...

The author

Jacky Tavernier is a director, actress and teacher. Trained in dramatic art, singing and educational sciences, she approaches the image by writing fictional scenarios and working as an actress. She uses her passion for education by intervening in cultural centers and in schools, within the framework of artistic practices: theater and visual arts workshops (cinema).

In 2004, she played in French Guiana in TheGuests of Marc Barrat, in 2009 in TheAbsence of Mama Keita, where she plays the role of Aisha for which she was awarded two "best actress awards" and in 2019, she plays Marie, in the film Les Éblouis by Sarah Suco.

She perfected her skills in fiction screenwriting with the GREC (Groupe de recherches et d'essais cinématographiques), then in documentary writing at Varan Caraïbe.

The meeting with Sylvaine Dampierre, the Ateliers Varan Paris, allowed him to train and deepen his knowledge on the field, framing, sound and writing. Jacky Tavernier directed his first short documentary film, Faire face.

She is essentially interested in questions of society, identity through intimacy, and the passing of time, particularly the problems of the populations of the French territories of South America resulting from their historical, multicultural and demographic dynamics.

WHEN?

PITCH SESSION
WEDNESDAY 12/10/22

- From 9:00 am to 12:30 pm ( French Guiana)
- From 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm (Paris time)

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