"Youth Screen" in Lourdes, a new festival dedicated to television for children and adolescents

They can take their remote control, turn off their television and go out to find their favorite actors in the flesh. In the heart of the Marian city of Hautes-Pyrénées, young people will now have their own audiovisual festival.

Launched during the school holidays, “Youth Screen” will offer an international competition of television and / or animated series, documentaries, educational or entertainment programs as well as previews in the presence of film teams or children's star characters .

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This festival will be accompanied by a Toy, Video Game and Book fair and will offer shows and street entertainment. The event will also have an educational aim with workshops to discover the world of the image, specifies the organization, led by Christian Cappe, creator of the Luchon television festival. With a well-supplied address book, this regular in the organization of audiovisual events should bring together big names from youth television on site.

And a space dedicated to professionals in the sector is planned so that publishers can highlight books that could be adapted for cinema or television.

Luchon Festival changes team

"Youth Screen" comes at a tipping point for its big brother, the festival of television creations in Luchon. Christian Cappe has just left his position as general delegate after the arrival of a new team at his management.

He returned to this position in 2018 after a parenthesis of ten years, in a context of turbulence for this manifestation interspersed with series resignations, including that of the director and producer Serge Moati, its president since 2008.

Created in 1999, this event dedicated to French television creation (series, TV films, documentaries) was endowed in July with a new president, Emmanuelle Eymard, who promised for 2021 a 23rd edition "glamor and feminine" in a context strong competition between audiovisual festivals (CanneSéries, Séries Mania in Lille, FIPADOC in Biarritz and La Rochelle, the next edition of which will be held exceptionally in Paris ...). It also wishes to develop the creation pole of the festival, within an Occitanie region very requested for filming. The continuation, with the next episode if the Covid-19 epidemic allows it.