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The La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival (Vendée) unveiled, Saturday October 19, 2024, the winners of its fifteenth edition. An announcement made a day earlier this year to allow a new broadcast of the award-winning films. One of them was also screened immediately after the announcement of the results.
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“Pierce” by Nelicia Low won the International Jury Grand Prize. | LA ROCHE-SUR-YON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
« Hello again. » For the second time in about ten minutes, director Nelicia Low appears on the screen in room number 1 of the Le Concorde cinema. The latter has just won two awards at the International Film Festival (Fif) in La Roche-sur-Yon (Vendée) for her film Pierce : the Trajectoires BNP Paribas Prize and the International Jury Grand Prize.
Absent at the time of the results, it was therefore in video that she thanked the juries doubly, and in particularHigh school students with a cinema-audiovisual option. For them, she plunged back into her own film studies at Columbia University in New York. “I wrote Pierce during this period. »
“The grace of the two actors”
A work of several years and a great recognition for a first film. “It rejuvenates us to see that we made the same choice with the high school students,” observes director and screenwriter Sophie Barthes, one of the three members of the international jury….
