A Taste of French Tech at SXSW
This March, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy is launching a new initiative at the 2014 South by Southwest Festival in Austin, TX. The Embassy will collaborate with UBIFRANCE, Bonjour SXSW, Cap Digital, BUREAU EXPORT and Invest in France Agency in order to bring together entrepreneurs and tech visionaries and ensure the presence of the most innovative French digital professionals, startups, and digital content producers at this world-renowned celebration of digital culture.
read moreFrench Voices Grantees 2013
In 2013, the Cultural Services’ French Voices grant has become the French Voices Award. This year, thanks to the large number of outstanding applications, 12 titles (instead of the usual 10) have been selected by an independent committee of professionals to receive the translation prize. These 12 recipients represent new trends in French fiction and underrepresented perspectives in French non-fiction. Discover the list of the fall session’s 8 grantees.
read moreDual Language Teaching Scholars
Finding talented and qualified teachers is difficult. But it is the key to our success. Supporting teacher training and growth will have a direct impact on the expansion of the French-English dual language programs in New York.
read moreFavorite Films of 2013
Program Officer for Film at the French Embassy, Florence Almozini has put together an extensive list of favorite films and documentaries from 2013. Almozini's top picks include, but are not limited, to French titles. If you have a little free time over the holidays for some good cinema or a thought provoking documentary, this is a list worth consulting!
read moreFrench Books for the Holidays
Literary professionals from the Wall Street Journal, The Brooklyn Rail, Words without Borders, The New Yorker, the New York Public Library, and McNally Jackson bookstore have recommended an exceptional selection of recent French publications, all of which would make lovely cadeaux.
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March 2014
Let’s talk about Paris. Balzac describes the capital as a primitive land with curved, serpentine roads that stretch in all directions like sprawled arms and legs. Later Haussmann fashioned a new Paris, broadening the scrawny streets and blasting boulevards through zones neither “paved” nor “lighted” before.
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DANSE: an anthology
DANSE: AN ANTHOLOGY gathers key writings on choreography across the French, U.S., and international dance scenes since the turn of the century.
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The French Voices Grand Prize goes to....
On February 6th, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and FACE hosted the first French Voices Award Ceremony, with a special homage to the late publisher André Schiffrin. The French Voices Grand Prize Prize was awarded to translator Melanie Mauthner and Archipelago Books for Notre-Dame du Nil by Scholastique Mukasonga.
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Jean-Luc Godard has shaped the course of film history in profound ways. Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive are honoring the legendary French filmmaker, who will turn eighty-four this year, with a year-long retrospective: between January and April by focusing on his pre-1968 films and in the fall by presenting his post-1968 oeuvre.
Jean-Luc Godard: Expect Everything from Cinema
January 31, 2014 - April 19, 2014
Pacific Film Archive Theater
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Start (Up) in Austin, Land in Paris… Air France Giveaway
This year, the French Embassy is helping bring France to Austin for SXSW, and we’re excited to announce that Air France will be bringing a couple lucky Americans back the other way.
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The French Embassy Heads to SXSW
The Cultural Services of the French Embassy is excited to be on-the-ground for the first time at SXSW!books
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This conference, to be held in New York City on March 6, 7 and 8 2014, will focus on the role that money, economics, dépense, financial crises and equitable or unjust economic distribution have played in 20th and 21st century French and Francophone literatures, visual cultures, theatre, history, theory, translation studies and gender and ethnic studies.
20th/21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
March 6-8 2014 | 7pm
NYU, CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
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Helen Tartar: French thought has lost a great friend
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the sudden death of Helen Tartar, editorial director of Fordham University Press. She's been instrumental in bringing French works to an English readership.
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Why Do French Comics Sell Abroad?
On the occasion of the 41st Angoulême Comics Festival, which ended last Sunday, what better time to take a look at the state of French comics on the American book market?
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Revisiting the First World War
How can we address World War I a century later? As the centennial of la Grande Guerre approaches, French publishers are releasing a wide range of titles in all genres dealing with diverse aspects of the war.
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The French Voices Grand Prize goes to....
On February 6th, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and FACE hosted the first French Voices Award Ceremony, with a special homage to the late publisher André Schiffrin. The French Voices Grand Prize Prize was awarded to translator Melanie Mauthner and Archipelago Books for Notre-Dame du Nil by Scholastique Mukasonga.
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Ebook News numéro 3
[FRENCH] Si la croissance des ouvrages numériques s'est stabilisée, l’ebook n’a de cesse de susciter toutes sortes de débats et d’initiatives. De plus en plus, il donne l’envie aux éditeurs d’investir ce marché des possibles.music
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Cadenza Orchestra presents works of French and Francophile composers: Ravel, Debussy, Fauré, Jolivet and a new composition by French Canadian composer Olivier Larue.
Cadenza Orchestra Presents French Composers' Works
March 15, 2014 - March 16, 2014
Multiple Locations
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Cécile McLorin Salvant's US Tour
Make it your New Year’s resolution to hear French jazz musician Cécile McLorin Salvant at least once in 2014. Salvant is playing a number of shows, including a very special performance at the Lycée Français in New York on January 9th.
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Lady Gaga Samples Zombie Zombie in “Venus”
Lady Gaga samples the voices of French duo Zombie Zombie on her new single “Venus”, the third single off the album Artpop, to be released on November 11th. The similarity between Lady Gaga’s “Venus” and “Rocket Number 9″, performed by Zombie Zombie and released in March 2012, does not stop with the sample used, but can also be found in the way in which the American artist sings.
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Daft Punk Scores Big at 2014 Grammy Awards
The French duo Daft Punk won five awards this year, including album of the year, best pop duo/group performance and best dance/electronica album, all for their 2013 Random Access Memories. It was an unprecedented haul for a French group, and more awards than any other artist that night.
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French Nominees for the 2014 Grammy Awards
The following is a list of French nominees for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
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France Rocks Back to School Playlist
We've selected September's best new French releases to energize your back-to-school season with the France Rocks Back to School Playlist on Spotify.Visual & Performing Arts
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Every family has its moments. Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri's comedy “A family Affair” however, takes one’s ordinary family moment of bickering to a whole new level of a fun, comedic and frenzied art form.
Platypus Théâtre presents "A Family Affair"
March 6, 2014 - March 15, 2014
Exit Theater
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Lauren Marsolier's images are constructed from photographs taken in various locations over the course of several months, then layered and blended until the real and the fabricated become a seamless composition.
Lauren Marsolier at Robert Koch Gallery
February 6, 2014 - March 29, 2014
Robert Koch Gallery
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Robert Adams Photo Retrospective at the Jeu de Paume
American photographer Robert Adams is the subject of a large retrospective that opened this week at the Jeu de Paume in Paris. The exhibition is perhaps the most sweeping survey ever mounted of the 76-year old artist's work. Over more than two hundred and fifty prints from twenty one different series, will allow visitors to observe Adams' career long exploration of the American West.
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The 2013 French National Celebration commemorates the 100th birthday of the author, playwright and member of the Resistance, Charlotte Delbo (1913-1985). Her play "I Return From the Truth" will be performed by French Theater Company "Prospero Miranda".
I Return From the Truth, on stage
March 31, 2014 - April 3, 2014
Multiple Locations
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For nearly fifty years, Barbara Chase-Riboud has created elegant and powerful sculptures and drawings in which materials, forms, and cultural references unite in a continuous interplay of bold physicality and metaphoric associations.
Barbara Chase-Riboud: The Malcolm X Steles
February 12, 2014 - April 27, 2014
Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive
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Cultural Sector in France : a Benefit for the Economy
On January 3rd, 2014 in France, both Ministries of Finance and Culture published a report about the benefits of the cultural sector on the French Economy. For the first time, the two institutions worked together to link Culture and Economy.Film, TV & New Media
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Alain Resnais (1922-2014)
One of the greatest and most acclaimed French directors, Alain Resnais died on Saturday March 1st, at age 91.
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Mr. Hublot Wins Best Animated Short
Mr. Hublot (2013), winner in the Best Animated Short Film category at the Oscars in 2014, is about compromise and stretching our own limits to meet the needs of those we love.
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MyFrenchFilmFestival Draws Record 4 Million Viewings
The 4th edition of UniFrance’s online film festival, My French Film Festival was met by unprecedented success as results grew four-fold compared with 2013. With viewers from 205 countries, the festival totaled 4 million viewings from January 17 to February 17, 2014.The festival featured a selection of 10 feature films and 10 shorts subtitled in 13 languages and available across 20 platforms.
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Mathieu Gallet Appointed CEO of Radio France
Mathieu Gallet has been officially appointed to succeed Jean-Luc Hees at the head of Radio France, the French public service radio broadcaster. At 37, he will become the youngest CEO in the history of the station. He is set to take office in May 2014. His nomination was confirmed Thursday, March 27th by the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (CSA, an independent administration in charge of the regulation of various electronic media in France, such as radio and television).
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EuropaCorp Strenghtens its US Distribution
On February 21st, Relativity Media (pres. Tucker Tooley) announced the creation of a U.S. distribution and marketing joint venture with EuropaCorp (CEO Christophe Lambert), according to Variety. Both companies will benefit from this joint venture by distributing each other’s films. With this agreement, Relativity Media opens up the US market for Europacorp’s films. EuropaCorp will have to pay $130 million over six years for US distribution rights.
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The French Are Here: An Interview with Dennis Lim, Curator of Rendez-Vous with French Cinéma
On the occasion of the 19th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, Florence Almozini, Program Officer for Cinema at the French Embassy, interviewed Denis Lim, the Director of Cinematheque Programming at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.With special thanks and gratitude to our sponsors
