Celebrities - FCAD 2020 : Rebecca Zlotowski, President of the Revelation Jury

By Mulder, 07 july 2020

"I have a very, very great faith in cinema as a lyrical, romantic and political tool," says Rebecca Zlotowski, and each of her films shows the infinite respect the filmmaker has for her art... A faith that will undoubtedly make her a remarkable president of the Revelation Jury at the 46th Deauville American Film Festival.

Rebecca Zlotowski was born in Paris in 1980. A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the FEMIS, she made her first feature film, Belle Épine, which was presented at the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes in 2010 and won the Louis Delluc Prize for Best Debut Film, earning Léa Seydoux a nomination for the César for Best Female Newcomer. In 2013, she is a member of the jury of the Deauville American Film Festival, chaired by Vincent Lindon. This is also the year of her second feature film, Grand Central, an incandescent film with atmospheric lyricism, presented in official selection at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section. Suit Planetarium, a melancholy tribute to cinema that questions the belief in the image. Une fille facile, a mischievous Rohmerian tale, will delight the Directors' Fortnight in 2019, while its series Les Sauvages makes a remarkable entry into the world of television this year through a political fresco that forcefully questions the multicultural French identity.

In barely 10 years, four feature films and a series, Rebecca Zlotowski has become a filmmaker to be reckoned with, blowing a wind of modernity and freshness over young French cinema. Armed with a solid cinephilia and an ardent temperament, committed to the 50/50 collective, co-president of the SRF, she defies the glass ceiling and in just a few years became the embodiment of a new international cinema of virtuoso auteur combined with femininity.

Rebecca Zlotowski is not satisfied with simply directing, she even writes a lot, with Sabri Loutah, Teddy Lussi Modeste, Philippe Grandrieux, never ceasing to consider cinema and screenwriting in particular, as a collective art, a space for debate and sharing.

The Revelation jury, presided over by Rebecca Zlotowski, will award the Louis Roederer Foundation Revelation Prize at the awards ceremony on Saturday 12 September.

(Source: press release)