Festivals - FCAD 2016 : Frédéric Mitterrand will preside over the 42nd edition of the Deauville American Film Festival

By Mulder, Deauville, 08 june 2016

“ Frédéric Mitterrand is known for running movie theaters, for inventing all-night sessions at the Olympic-Entrepôt, and for founding a network of 10 arthouse cinemas, in which he boldly programmed the films of Pasolini, Bergman, Kurosawa, Ozu, along with rare Egyptian movies, going as far as acquiring The Ballad of Narayama by Shohei Imamura in Cannes, the year it won the Palme d’Or.

Frédéric Mitterrand is also known as the presenter, producer and director of many cultural TV programs and documentaries, putting cinema at the heart of his preoccupations in his landmark show, Etoile et Toiles.

Frédéric Mitterrand is known as a talented and affectionate movie director through From Somalia with Love as well as through the lyrical adaptation Madame Butterfly.

Frédéric Mitterrand is known as a writer, thanks to La Mauvaise Vie and La Récréation.

So it was no surprise when he was appointed director of the Académie de France in Rome in 2008, then Minister of Culture from 2009 to 2012. This prospecter of art and beauty will do us the honor of presiding over the 42nd edition of the Deauville American Film Festival."

Bruno Barde, Festival Director