Created in 1978 to contribute to the recognition of young filmmakers, the Caméra d’Or prize is awarded to the best first film presented either in the Official Selection (Competition and Un Certain Regard) or in The Directors’ Fortnight and in the Critics’ Week. The Caméra d’Or prize is handed out during the closing ceremony of the Festival by the president of its jury.
L’OEil d’or - The Documentary Award
Cinema was born as a documentary. Appearing more and more frequently on the silver screen, attracting increasing attention from critics and growing ever more popular, the singular perspective of documentary films on the world deserved to have a place of its own in Cannes. Each year, L’OEil d’or, created by Scam in cooperation with the Cannes Film Festival, will be awarded to the film singled out by an independent jury from the documentary selection, including all sub-categories (Official selection, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Classics, Directors’ Fortnight, Semaine de la Critique, Special Sessions, Out of Competition, short films and full features).
The jury of the first Documentary Award, presided by Rithy Panh alongside Nicolas Philibert, Irène Jacob, Diana El Jeiroudi and Scott Foundas, will hold its ceremony on Saturday 23 May at the Palais des Festivals.
Europa Cinemas Label
Created in 2003, the Europa Cinemas Label aims to enhance the promotion, circulation and box-office runs of European awardwinning films on the screens of a cinema network stretching across Europe. Awarded by a jury comprised of Europa Cinemas member exhibitors to one of the European films selected in the Directors’ Fortnight, the film is given the conditions of reaching a large audience.
Needless to say, that means the Label is awarded at a crucial moment in a film’s career: its presentation at a major festival, a strategic stage in its release on the international market. The Label mobilises the media, the sales agents, the distributors and the exhibitors by providing them a financial incentive for programming the film on its release date and screening it for an extended period. In this way Europa Cinemas encourages exhibitors to programme the film in all corners of its network, which comprises 2 350 screens in 977 cinemas established in 596 cities in 42 countries. JURY 2015: Marijana Bošnjak, Kino Urania – Osijek (Croatia), Édouard Meier, Cinema Galeries – Brussels (Belgium), Ulrika Sundbäck, Cinema Zita – Stockholm (Sweden), Boris Thomas, Ciné St-Leu – Amiens (France).
SACD Prize
SACD (Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers) is a services society for creators in the audiovisual and performing arts sectors. It accompanies over 55 000 audiovisual and performing arts creators in their professional environment. It advises and assists them on legal, tax and social matters. SACD is fostering authors’ creation, promotion and training as well as dissemination of their works, through its cultural development program financed with private copying schemes. In this sense, the sacd supports festivals such as the Directors’ Fortnight, which seek to make authors and films known. At the Fortnight, the sacd honors a french-speaking in the selection. This film is chosen by the cinema commission. Cinema commission of SACD: Bertrand Tavernier (president), Jean Becker, Laurent Heynemann, Jean Marboeuf.
Art Cinema Award
The International Confederation of Art Cinemas (CICAE) will present the CICAE Art Cinema Award for the best feature at the closing ceremony of the Quinzaine. The first international association of art house cinemas (over 3000 screens in 35 countries in Europe, Latin America, USA and Africa), the CICAE has been committed to promoting quality cinema in all its cultural and artistic diversity for the past 60 years. The CICAE is a network of networks and represents a bridge between film festivals and cinema theatres.
Since the end of the 1980s, the CICAE has intensified its efforts to support emerging talents, support the circulation of art films and guarantee cultural diversity in cinema theatres with the cicae Art Cinema Award. This prize is awarded in major European festivals by a jury comprised of member exhibitors and festival programmers. It aims at discovering high quality films that also have the potential ability to reach a large audience in art cinemas.
The CICAE promotes the awarded films by recommending them to its wide network: 2000 exhibitor members, distributors and the press. In so doing, it fosters a culturally diverse, innovative and compelling programme throughout the screens of its network and encourages distributors to sign the awarded films.
The CICAE jury at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs 2015 is composed of Francesca Bolognesi (Villa Medici – Italy), Myriam Djebour Roumier (Cinéma Les Carmes – Orléans, France) and Matthias Damm (Casablanca Filmkunsttheater – Nurenberg, Germany). The cicae is recognized by the Conseil de l’Europe, UNESCO, the Programme media, the CNC (France), the FFA (Germany) and the dgc (Italy). In 2015 it celebrates 60 years of activity – 60 years of passion for art house cinema and for new cinematic discoveries.
The illy Award
For years now, illycaffè has been encouraging and sponsoring young artists, notably contributing to the circulation of contemporary art through the support of artists, institutions and international exhibitions. In this same dynamic, the Italian roaster is developing its partnership with the Directors’ Fortnight and has chosen to honor one of the shorts in the selection for the fourth year in a row.
The spirit of this initiative is part of illy’s: seek out the beautiful and the new, bring it out and promote it. This prize, attributed by a jury of professionals, comes with a 2 500 euros cash prize designed to encourage the winning director and will be presented during the Fortnight’s closing ceremony. The film will be chosen by a jury composed of Lolita Chammah, Peter Debruge, Sophie Reine, Marc Sanchez and chaired by Olivier Jahan.