FRENCH FILM NEWS IN SACRAMENTO

French Films at the Sacramento Jewish Film Festival

Monday, January 30, 2006

The 9 th SACRAMENTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL to be held March 4 th - 7 th at the Crest Theatre, will present 2 new French films.

- Opening film VA, VIS ET DEVIENS (Live and Become) by Radu Mihaileanu
winner of the 2006 French Academy Awards "Cesar" for Best Original Screenplay, nominee for Best Film of the year and Best Director.
Saturday March 4 th at 8pm, screening followed by coffee & desserts
Encore screening on Tuesday March 7th at 7:30pm

- LE TANGO DES RASHEVSKI (Rashevski's tango) by Sam Garbaski, Sunday March 5 th at 1:30pm.

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CACHE To Open at the Crest Theatre

CACHE by Michael Haneke with Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche and Annie Girardot will open on February 17th at the Crest Theatre.
Cache swept the European Film Awards, taking home the Best Picture Award as well as the European Critics' Award. Georges (Daniel Auteuil), who hosts a TV literary review, receives packages containing secretly shot videos of himself with his family and alarming drawings whose meaning he cannot figure out. Gradually, the footage on the tapes becomes more personal, suggesting that the sender has known Georges for some time. Georges feels a sense of menace hanging over him and his family but, as no direct threat has been made, the police refuse to help…

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SFFF Wins Arts Management Excellence Award

Sunday, January 29, 2006

The Sacramento French Film Festival won the 2005 Arts Management Excellence Award from the Arts & Business Council, for its outstanding contribution to arts and culture in the Sacramento region. The winners were announced during the Arts & Business Council's annual awards luncheon, Prelude to the Season, on October 5th 2005.

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Festival Survey Results

Saturday, January 28, 2006

The 4th Sacramento French Film Festival was the most successful ever with more than 3900 seats filled, 45% more than last year.

Thanks to all of you who replied to our online survey. It is essential for us to learn more about you and to get your feedback on the Festival. We are thrilled that 95% of you either loved or liked the Festival! We will try to satisfy even more of you next year!!!

Here are some other highlights from the survey:

Our audience is mainly local with 85% of you coming from Sacramento or the Greater Sacramento region. But the Festival also attracts more and more people from out of town with some coming all the way from San Diego!

We are pleased to have many loyal patrons who come back year after year with 66% of you having attended previous editions of the Festival.

75% of the attendees came to see several films and 35% watched more than 6 films over the two weekends.

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