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Source : (c) Pierre Lemaire – ENS Louis Lumiere pour l’Academie des Cesar 2023

Carole Scotta, and Barbara Letellier of Haut et Court

Haut et Court’s Carole Scotta were named best producers of 2010 at the 16th edition of France’s Academy of Film Arts & Sciences’ Daniel Toscan Du Plantier Prize. The event celebrated the winners, the previous award recipients, and all producers with at least one film competing for a 2023 Cesar. The event was held at the InterContinental Paris – Le Grand hotel in a lavish ballroom along with Cesar Academy president Veronique Cayla, vice president Patrick Sobelman and general delegate Gregory Caulier and a who’s who of France’s top producers.

Scotta founded Haut et Court in 1992 and was joined by Letellier in 1995. Over the past 30 years, Haut et Court has become a prolific art house film production company whose films are regularly prized at festivals such as Cannes and Venice from Laurent Cantet’s Palme d’Or-winning The Class in 2008 to Xavier Legrand’s

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which won two Lions in Venice in 2017 to more recent films such as Kiliam Riedhof’s 2022 Locarno title You Will Not Have My Hate and 2021 Berlin Competition title Memory Box and Panorama film Copilot.Upcoming Haut et Court films include Pierre Jolivet’s Brittany-set environmental investigative drama Green Tide, Claude Barras’ animated You’re Not the One I Expected

and Olivier Babinet’s Normal with Benoit Poelvoorde.The company has also branched out into series production in recent years and is behind titles such as Possessions and The Returned

for Canal+ and upcoming psychological thriller Constellation for Apple TV+.Scotta told Screen that winning the award, chosen by her peers, was “stimulating” for the duo and the company as a whole and that winning for The Night of the 12thwas particularly touching. “This film is our DNA. It’s an original movie that epitomises how we want to define ourselves,” she explained.

Set in Grenoble, the investigative drama starring Bastien Bouillon and Bouli Lanners follows a police unit trying to get to the bottom of a haunting murder case and explores issues of gender, violence and policing politics in France.“It’s not a commercial film on paper, it’s not driven by big stars, yet it worked,” Scotta said of the box office success. Memento sold the film internationally to a host of territories, including to The Night Of The 12th . Memento has sold the film internationally to a host of territories including to Film Movement in North America and Picturehouse Entertainment for the UK and Ireland.

Scotta and Letellier were crowned victorious among 50 finalists who were pre-selected for the coveted honour including veteran producers like Gaumont’s Sidonie Dumas, Pathe’s Jerome Seydoux and Ce Qui Me Meut’s Bruno Levy, alongside active rising production companies such as Chi-Fou-Mi Productions’ Hugo Selignac, Nolita Cinema’s Maxime Delauney, Romain Rousseau and Mathieu Ageron and The Family’s Elisa Soussan and Kev Adams.

Honouring Daniel Toscan du PlantierThe Prix Daniel Toscan du Plantier is named after the prolific French producer, former president of Unifrance and president of the Cesar Academy from 1992 to 2003 who died 20 years ago.The Academy paid him a special tribute at Monday night’s event, two decades after the effervescent industry figure died unexpectedly during the Berlin Film Festival in 2003.

French Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak gave a speech honouring the memory of Toscan du Plantier after organisers screened a moving short film from Pierre-Henry Salfati dedicated to the late producer blending archival footage spanning his long career and film clips.

Malak cited Toscan du Plantier’s “clairvoyance and enthusiasm” and said the French cinema personality “expanded the horizons of French cinema in France and internationally,” calling him “crazy about the seventh art” and adding that when he died, “French cinema lost one of its strongest defenders.”

The winner for the Prix Daniel Toscan du Plantier is chosen by an electoral college of 1,641 voters including select Academy members plus the previous year’s Cesar winners and all of the artists and film crew members nominated for a Cesar since 2008. The vote takes place by secret ballot and is revealed by a bailiff on the evening of the Producers Dinner.

Producers who have made a minimum of two films, at least one of which was released in 2022, are eligible for the prize. Last year’s winners were Rectangle Productions’ Edouard Weil and Alice Girard, notably behind Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion-winning

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and Valerie Lemercier’s

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who were also at the 2023 dinner to fete their peers.The 2023 Daniel Toscan du Plantier Prize ceremony and gala dinner was held in partnership with BNP Paribas Group. The 48th Cesar Awards will take place on February 24th at Paris’ L’Olympia concert venue.Constantin Film chairman Martin Moszkowicz on driving the most ambitious film and TV slate in the company’s history

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