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César: an interim president appointed Wednesday to succeed Alain Terzian

2020-02-25T11:21:29.258Z


Who will head the Academy? A temporary officer must be appointed after an exceptional board of directors. A way to calm the controversies that stir French cinema before the ceremony Friday evening, Salle Pleyel.


An interim president to replace Alain Terzian? It is the hour of the first changes within the Académie des César ten days after the collective resignation of its management. Dominique Boutonnat, president of the National Cinema Center, announced the holding of a board of directors Wednesday, February 26 to appoint a temporary president of the institution, reports Le Film Français .

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The announcement was made during the producers' dinner held at the Four Seasons Hotel George V on Monday evening, in the presence of the resigning president of the Académie des César, Alain Terzian. Sitting at the head table, the latter did not speak.

"I have deep confidence in the collective intelligence of the sector, and confidence in our ability to give new impetus to the Academy by next summer , " said Dominique Boutonnat. The latter also specified the holding of an extraordinary general meeting by early April in order to adopt a first reform of the statutes, including the enlargement of its members.

The president of the CNC has also developed the four main lines of work of the Academy for the next month: ensuring the democratic process of appointing its leaders, guaranteeing transparency, strengthening parity and diversity and limiting the duration of mandates.

"Through this key moment of the Cesars, it is a reflection of the movements of cinema and audiovisual change and more generally of society that are at work" , he added, insisting on the need to modernize the Academy.

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"Tense" Caesars

The management of the Académie des César, chaired since 2003 by producer Alain Terzian, resigned en bloc in mid-February, just two weeks before the award ceremony for these awards for French cinema, to be held on Friday evening.

This resignation will renew the César board of directors, made up of 21 people, including the filmmakers Costa Gavras, Claude Lelouch or Tonie Marshall. The council oversees the Association for the Promotion of Cinema (APC), composed of 47 members, which itself governs the Academy of the Cesars, made up of 4,700 cinema professionals.

This transition period comes a few days before the 45th Cesar ceremony, to be held Friday evening in the Salle Pleyel. As we try to blow the embers of the Terzian controversy with the appointment of a new president, the event risks being disrupted by the Polanski controversy. His film J'accuse is named twelve times (including in the categories "best film" and "best director"), despite accusations of rape by several women against the director.

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Éric Toledano, director of the feature film Hors Norme , also in the running for the Césars, fears the worst for the ceremony. "They also announce a demonstration of feminists in front, it will be tense ," he told Mouloud Achour on the set of Clique . Afterwards, I trust the mistress of ceremony, Florence Foresti. It has the degree of retreat from dedramatization.

For Toledano, must not "spoil the party of ultra-diversified cinema" with scandals. "The films have a particularity: they pleased the Academy and they pleased the public (...) For once we meet a little and there is not precisely a cinema where the public be completely despised ... I would not want it to spoil the party . "

Source: lefigaro

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