City of Lights, City of Angels (COL•COA), A Week of French Film Premieres in Hollywood
Sponsor: City of Lights, City of Angels (COL•COA)
Monday, April 16
- Directors Guild of America
- 7920 Sunset Blvd
- Los Angeles, CA 90046
COL•COA presents an eclectic array of the latest French productions, showcasing the vitality and the diversity of the third largest film industry in the world. All films are presented for the first time in Los Angeles, including U.S. and North American premieres.
More than 100 French writers, directors and producers have presented their film(s) at COL•COA. Among them are Costa-Gavras, Alain Corneau, Claire Denis, Michel Hazanavicius, Claude Lelouch, Claude Miller, Bertrand Tavernier, Olivier Assayas, Laurent Cantet, Arnaud Desplechin, Anne Fontaine, Bertrand Blier and Mathieu Kassovitz.
Several award-winning French actors and filmmakers have made their U.S. debut at COLCOA in recent years, including Marion Cotillard, Bérénice Bejo, Michel Hazanavicius, and Jean Dujardin (eight films screened at COLCOA since 2007).
Info line: (310) 289-5346
Limited free parking on site.
About the sponsor:
COL•COA was created in 1996 by The Franco-American Cultural Fund, a unique collaborative effort of the Directors Guild of America, the Motion Picture Association, the Writers Guild of America West, and France’s Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM). COL•COA is also supported by l’Association des Auteurs-Réalisateurs-Producteurs (ARP), the Film and TV Office of the French Embassy in Los Angeles and UNIFRANCE.

