‘The Marching Band’ Feted At 30th Rendez-Vous With French Cinema In New York
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Emmanuel Courcol’s feel-good drama The Marching Band has been unveiled as the winner of the Audience Award of the 30th Rendez-Vous With French Cinema In New York.
The heartwarming, music-themed crowd-pleaser, starring Benjamin Lavernhe as a celebrated conductor who discovers he is adopted and has a brother raised and living in a depressed manufacturing town, has enjoyed a successful box run in France where it grossed close to $20M.
In other prizes, French-Japanese director Koya Kamura won the Best Emerging Filmmaker Award for Winter in Sokcho, while Jonathan Millet’s psychological thriller Ghost Trail received the one-off Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 30th Anniversary Award.
Organised by French cinema and TV promotional body Unifrance and Film at Lincoln Center, the 30th Rendez-Vous With French Cinema in New York ran from March 6 to 16.
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