Angers European First Film Festival

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]

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

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. 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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