Angers European First Film Festival
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LocationAngers, France
Founded1989 (1989)
LanguageInternational
Websitehttps://www.premiersplans.org/festival/en/

The Angers European First Film Festival (French: Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers) is an annual film festival held in the city of Angers, France every January since 1989, dedicated to European cinema.[1]

History

The first edition of this festival took place in 1989 at the initiative of its current delegate general Claude-Éric Poiroux, founder of the art house cinema Les 400 coups in Angers, and of a group of moviegoers.[2][3]

Since 2011, the festival collaborates with the Beijing First Film Festival.[4]

In 2013, it attracted nearly 70,000 festival-goers.[5][6] In 2016, admissions were estimated to be more than 76,000 and more than 150,000 euros in prizes awarded to films selected by juries or spectators.[7][8]

Jury Presidents

Over the years, seminal figures in the world of cinematography have chaired the jury:[9]

References

  1. ↑ Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers, retrieved 17 June 2021
  2. ↑ Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers, retrieved 17 June 2021
  3. ↑ La passion du cinéma made in Angers, 2014-01-27, retrieved 2021-06-17
  4. ↑ Premiers Plans, premiers pas en Chine, 2011-11-02, retrieved 2021-06-17
  5. 1 2 A propos du festival, retrieved 2014-01-28
  6. ↑ 70,000 visitors to the 25th Angers First Film Festival, 2013-01-29, retrieved 17 June 2021
  7. ↑ Angers Le festival Premiers Plans bat des records, 2016-01-31
  8. ↑ Le 22 janvier Festival Premiers plans, 2016
  9. ↑ Press release for the 27th festival in 2015 (PDF), 2014-09-15.
  10. ↑ Présentation du festival Premiers plans (PDF), 2013-10-11
  11. ↑ Marie-Noëlle Tranchant (2013-01-25), Premiers plans d'Angers : 25 ans de découvertes
  12. ↑ Premiers plans. Comment le festival de cinéma d’Angers va s'organiser en plein Covid-19, 2020-12-17


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