COLCOA 2015 MASTER CLASS PROGRAM

 

Students and teachers are invited to attend two Master classes at COLCOA (Free of charge):

 

Tuesday April 21

TRUFFAUT Theater - 1:00 pm

Screening of THE LAST HAMMER BLOW 

Followed by a master class with writer/director Alix Delaporte (end at 3:40 pm)

 

For her second feature, writer/director Alix Delaporte insisted on working again with Grégory Gadebois and Clotilde Hesme, both recipients of Most Promising Actor César Awards for her first feature Angel and Tony (COLCOA 2011). After studying screenwriting at La Fémis, Delaporte wrote for a number of French television series. Her second short, Comment on freine dans une descente? (2006), won a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Her feature work is noted for its introspection and a preference of physical and emotional subtext over straightforward dialogue. The film’s title, The Last Hammer Blow, is a reference to the “three blows of fate” called for in the final movement of Mahler’s 6^th symphony, for which Mahler had a special hammer instrument constructed.

 

Thursday April 23

TRUFFAUT Theater - 1:00 pm

Screening of GEMMA BOVERY 

Followed by a master class with writer/director Anne Fontaine (end at 3:40 pm)

 

On the heels of Adore (2013), writer/director Anne Fontaine continues to explore sexual themes with this airy examination of passive objectification. Adapted to the screen in collaboration with the prolific writer Pascal Bonitzer, Gemma Bovery began as a Posy Simmonds comic strip satirizing on the English craze for living in France. Fontaine first gained international recognition with the provocative Dry Cleaning (COLCOA 1998), and has since burnished a reputation creating complex, sexually ambiguous characters and acclaimed psychological dramas including How I Killed My Father (2002), Nathalie (COLCOA 2004), In His Hands (COLCOA 2006), and Coco Before Chanel (2009).

 

 

HOW TO ATTEND?

 

Depending on availability, this program is open to any class of college or university. Students from any school can RSVP and attend individually. The master class program is also available for high school teachers and their students.

 

If you are a professor and want your class to attend this program, please send us an email now at masterclass@colcoa.org. Please mention in your email:

◦    Where you teach

◦    How many students plan to attend

◦    Which Master class(es) you want to attend

 

Students may reserve individually by sending us their name and school information at masterclass@colcoa.org

 

Students can also buy tickets on site or on colcoa.org at the reduced price of $4 for all COLCOA screenings, from Tuesday 4/21 to Monday 4/27.

 

THREE (GOOD) REASONS TO BE PART OF THE PROGRAM: 

 

◦    All COLCOA screenings from Tuesday 4/22 to Monday 4/28 are complimentary for teachers/professors participating in a Master class. 

 

◦    Enjoy a full day at COLCOA: Students attending a master class will be offered complementary tickets for same day screenings at the festival! (Depending on availability)

 

◦    When attending a master class teachers and students can win a pass to Laemmle theaters, courtesy of Laemmle theaters.

 

 

The COLCOA Master Class program is presented in association with ELMA (European Langage and Movies Association) with the support of Laemmle Theatres and the French Film & TV Office in Los Angeles.