How the American French Film Festival Move to Fall Gives It Awards Season Energy
variety.comSteven Gaydos Executive VP of Content Los Angeles has long had a passionate love affair with French cinema, dating back more than 60 years ago when there were lines around the block to get into theaters showing the latest works from cinema masters such as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and others.
Local cineastes later got their French film fixes every year starting in 1997 thanks to a popular film festival called COLCOA, an acronym for the evocative, but not so helpful City of Lights, City of Angels moniker.
Then came COVID, then the industry strikes of 2023, and those “Lights” were temporarily dimmed. So good news arrived when François Truffart, the longtime director of COLCOA, announced that the newly rechristened American French Film Festival would begin in 2024, with myriad improvements, including moving from the spring into a fall (Oct.
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