Régis WARGNIER is a French filmmaker and has been a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts since 2007.
After making his debut alongside Claude Chabrol and Michel Deville, he directed his first film in 1986, La Femme de ma vie, which won him the César for Best First Feature.
He then went on to direct the historical romance Indochine, which met with great success in France and abroad, winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and five Césars, including Best Actress for Catherine Deneuve and Best Supporting Actress for Dominique Blanc.
While continuing to work on numerous film projects(Est-Ouest in 1999, Man to Man in 2005, Pars vite et reviens tard in 2007, Le temps des aveux in 2014), he has also taken an interest in documentaries and television.
2nd Prize for Best Sound Creation
Composition of the Jury
Régis WARGNIER
Jean-Claude CASADESUS
After starting his career as a percussionist, Jean-Claude Casadesus studied conducting with Pierre Dervaux and Pierre Boulez.
In 1965, he was appointed musical director of the Théâtre du Châtelet, and four years later was hired as permanent conductor at the Opéra de Paris and the Opéra-Comique.
In 1971, he took part in the creation of the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, of which he was deputy director until 1976.
It was at this time that he created the Orchestre National de Lille, which, under his direction, became a veritable ambassador for the Nord-Pas de Calais region and French culture.
With his orchestra, he performs in 32 countries on four continents, touring Central Europe, Russia, China and Kazakhstan as part of the 2013 France-Kazakhstan cross-season.
He is a guest of the greatest international orchestras, from Philadelphia to Tokyo, via Montreal, London and Berlin, as well as the Orchestre de Paris and the Orchestre National de France.
He also conducts major opera productions in Monte-Carlo, Trieste, at the Aix-en-Provence and Orange festivals, and of course at the Lille Opera.
Claude FUGAIN is a French doctor specializing in otolaryngology and phoniatrics.
An intern then hospital practitioner in the ENT department of the Hôpital Saint Antoine at the APHP, she works alongside Pr.
Claude-Henri Chouard on the development of the multi-electrode cochlear implant.
Fascinated by vocal cord surgery, she discovered phoniatry in 1969 with Dr François Le Huche.
In 1972, she joined his private practice to continue her work in phoniatry, before opening a consultation at the Hôpital Saint Antoine and then at the Hôpital Foch in Suresnes, where she founded the “SOS voix” service with Professor Chabolle.
In the 80s, she performed the first operations on deaf people to install cochlear implants, despite the sometimes violent opposition of certain associations such as “le monde des sourds”.
As a phoniatrist, her patients included actors and media personalities such as Guillaume Gallienne, Jeanne Moreau, Muriel Robin, Philippe Noiret and Anne Parillaud.
Claude FUGAIN
Aloïse SAUVAGE
Aloïse SAUVAGE is a French multidisciplinary artist active in music, film, contemporary circus, and dance.
After her film debut in 2015 in Nicole Garcia’s Mal de pierres , alongside Marion Cotillard and Louis Garrel; she was noticed as an actress in the film 120 battements par minute in 2017.
An avid breaker and slam artist since childhood, she also launched her own music career in 2018, and her original music videos have met with public success on the web.
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
Christian HUGONNET
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.
2nd edition partners
Awards 2018
Jury statement
“GRÄNS” by Ali ABBASI AWARD FOR BEST SOUND CREATION 2018 “Un Certain Regard”.
Under the aegis of its president, actor and director Régis WARGNIER, the jury for the 2nd edition of the Prix de la Meilleure Création Sonore, made up of conductor Jean-Claude CASADESUS, doctor Claude FUGAIN, actress Aloïse SAUVAGE, and Janine LANGLOIS-GLANDIER and Christian HUGONNET, founders of the prize, unanimously chose to reward Iranian-Danish director Ali ABBASI for his film “Gräns” (Border).
