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France’s Champs-Elysees Film Festival, Sophie Dulac’s Event Dedicated to French and American Movies in Paris, Shutters After 14 Editions
The Champs-Elysees Film Festival, created by distributor-exhibitor Sophie Dulac in 2012 to highlight French and American films, is shuttering.
Dulac’s decision to end the festival comes on the heels of a tumultuous 14th edition which ran June 17-23 and saw the 10 members of its two main juries (notably filmmaker Alice Winocour) stepping down in reaction to a pair of investigative articles published in Le Monde and Liberation reporting toxic management over at Sophie Dulac’s companies. In a statement sent out on Wednesday, Sophie Dulac said, “It is with great emotion that I announce the end of the Champs-Élysées Film Festival after 14 years of promoting independent French and American filmmaking.” In spite of difficulties at the Champs Elysées Film Festival, Dulac was able to lure prestigious guests at the event over the years, notably Keanu Reeves, Donald Sutherland, Agnès Varda, Brady Corbet, Ari Aster, Lily Gladstone, Joel Edgerton, Ira Sachs and Ben Winshaw.
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