Bob SWAIM is an American director, screenwriter and occasional actor.
After training at the École Louis Lumière, he became a cameraman before moving into directing.
He shot his first feature film, La Nuit de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in 1977.
It was his second film, La Balance, starring Nathalie Baye and Philippe Léotard, that made him a household name.
It won three Césars in 1983.
Thanks to this success, he was asked by MGM to direct Escort Girl with Sigourney Weaver and the thriller Masquerade.
Since 2007, he has directed the international program at the École internationale de création audiovisuelle et de réalisation (EICAR) in Paris.
1st Prize for Best Sound Creation
May 17 to 28, 2017
Composition of the Jury
Bob SWAIM
Chairman of the Jury
Robertie VALÉE
Director
Robertie VALÉE is a French director of documentaries and video clips.
She also writes, produces and directs experimental short films, and has developed a taste for music since her youth, first through contemporary jazz dance, then as a member of an English rock band.
After studying business administration, Catherine Dussart began her career as a press officer, before becoming a producer of documentaries and dramas for cinema and television.
Since then, she has produced or co-produced nearly 100 films in some 15 countries.
Among her latest productions: Rithy Panh’s Exil (official selection at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival); Pippo Delbono’s Évangile (official selection at the 2016 Venice Film Festival); Rithy Panh’s L’Image manquante (Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and Prix Italia, nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film).
Catherine Dussart’s productions demonstrate her commitment to ethical, societal and humanist values, as well as environmental issues.
She has also been a director of the TF1 Group since 2013.
Catherine DUSSART
Producer
Fabienne VOISIN
General Manager, Orchestre régional d'Île-de-France
After completing her musical studies at the Conservatoires de Lyon and Boulogne-Billancourt, Fabienne VOISIN went on to study business, in order to master all aspects of concert organization; she deepened her knowledge of general culture, political science and taxation.
Immediately after graduating, she joined a production company which organized two festivals and over 200 concerts a year, before joining the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France in concert production and distribution.
After five years in West Africa, where she managed musical projects involving some 3,000 children, she returned to the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France in 2011 as General Manager.
A leading figure in French broadcasting, Janine Langlois Glandier has headed some of the industry’s most prestigious institutions: Société Française de Production (SFP), France 3, Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA) and Pathé.
A keen innovator, she has enthusiastically followed the convergence of television and new technologies.
Since 2004, she has been President of the Mobile Media Forum, which brings together some thirty companies (publishers, operators, manufacturers, content creators, authors’ societies, etc.) concerned by the evolution and development of audiovisual media broadcasting.
Janine LANGLOIS GLANDIER
President of Forum Médias Mobiles
Christian HUGONNET
Founding President of La Semaine du Son Initiator of the Best Sound Creation Award at the Cannes Film Festival
An engineering graduate of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), Christian Hugonnet founded the association “La Semaine du Son” in 1998, to educate the general public and raise awareness of the importance of the quality of our sound environment.
A Court of Cassation-approved expert, he has also run a consulting firm in acoustics for auditoriums and recording studios since 1993, and teaches sound recording at various international film schools.
Partners of the 1st edition
Awards 2017
Jury statement
“LA BELLE ET LA MEUTE” by Kaouther BEN HANIA AWARD FOR BEST SOUND CREATION 2017 “Un Certain Regard”
Under the aegis of its president, American director and screenwriter Bob SWAIM, the jury for the 1st edition of the Prix de la Meilleure Création Sonore, made up of producer Catherine DUSSART, director Robertie VALÉE, director of the Orchestre régional d’Île-de-France Fabienne VOISIN, and Janine LANGLOIS-GLANDIER and Christian HUGONNET, founders of the prize, unanimously chose Tunisian director Kaouther BEN HANIA for her film “La Belle et la meute”.
