Philippe Le Guay, one of French cinema’s leading directors and screenwriters, discovered his passion for cinema in his teens at the Ciné Club de la Pension Saint-Martin, where he watched films by Hitchcock, Buñuel and Fellini.
In 1980, Philippe Le Guay was accepted at IDHEC.
His promotional film Le clou won numerous awards at festivals (1983).
Philippe Le Guay’s filmography is marked by eclecticism.
A costume film(Les deux Fragonard, 1989), a sentimental comedy(L’Année Juliette, 1995), a film noir pitting two workers against each other in a glass factory(Trois huit, 2001). The Cost of Living is a choral comedy exploring the theme of money, starring Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Lindon and Claude Rich (2003).
This was followed by a fable about happiness starring Benoît Poelvoorde(Du jour au lendemain, 2006).
Philippe Le Guay enjoyed great popular success with Les femmes du 6° étage (2011).
He reunited with Fabrice Luchini in 2013 with Alceste à bicyclette, a contemporary variation on Le Misanthrope.
In 2015, Floride is a bitter-sweet comedy featuring Jean Rochefort and Sandrine Kiberlain.
In 2018, Normandie nue features a Norman village that strips naked for an American photographer… (starring François Cluzet and Toby Jones).
With L’homme de la cave, Philippe Le Guay returns to a harsh, contemporary theme, in the tradition of Trois Huit.
The film reunites François Cluzet, Jérémie Rénier and Bérénice Béjo.
Scheduled for release in October 2021.
4th Prize for Best Sound Creation
Composition of the Jury
Philippe LE GUAY
Bruno COULAIS
In 1978, as a young symphonist, Bruno Coulais discovered in film music an additional means of expression, a way of bringing the demands of his writing to the widest possible audience.
In cinema,” he explains, “the composer has to meet the directors, enter their world, but without giving up his own. That’s the difficulty, or paradox, of composing music for pictures. Collaborating with filmmakers from a wide variety of backgrounds has helped me to progress, to explore territories that weren’t naturally my own.” The general public discovered the firepower of his writing with Josée Dayan’s major television series(La Rivière Espérance, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) and the documentary Microcosmos, an initiatory voyage on the scale of a centimeter.
To this plunge into the world of the infinitely small, Coulais injects a strange lyricism, somewhere between wonder and fantasy.
More broadly, Microcosmos earned him an avalanche of requests, from Olivier Dahan to Gabriel Aghion, Mathieu Kassovitz to Akhenaton, enabling him on occasion to forge a loyal relationship with filmmakers such as James Huth, Jean-Paul Salomé and Frédéric Schoendoerffer.
Whether he’s working on research projects or French-style blockbusters(Vidocq, Belphégor, Les Rivières pourpres), Coulais sees his art as a window on the world, revealing a gift for modern alchemy, a personal way of blending cultures, creating a genuine fusion between, for example, Tibetan choirs, Egyptian percussion and Corsican polyphony with A Filetta, his favorite vocal group since Jacques Weber’s Don Juan.
Not to mention his unique talent for creating dreamlike, unsettlingly gentle moods, based on hypnotically charming distorted lullabies, children’s voices and music boxes.
Curiously, his great popular successes do not restrict him to a specific perimeter.
2004, for example, was a schizophrenic year, torn between the tsunami of Christophe Barratier’s Les Choristes and Genesis, a brilliant documentary on the very meaning of life, with a demanding score and a modern edge.
In the same way, Bruno Coulais has established himself as a link between auteur animation (with Henry Selick or Tom Moore) and Benoît Jacquot, a filmmaker with a great mistrust of music in pictures, a fortiori original ones.
Today, after thirty-five years of composing for the screen, Bruno Coulais has acquired a unique status as a composer who crosses borders, acts as a triple agent and blurs boundaries.
The proof: within his filmography, the Marsupilami reaches out to Volker Schlöndorff, André Gide talks to Lucky Luke, Diderot smiles at Isaac Hayes.
Listening to his works in film, on record or in concert is an invitation to journey into the world of a creator determined to dream ahead, a creator whose calm exterior contrasts astonishingly with the intensity of his inner world.
With six studio albums on the Parisian label
In early 2017, he filled the Philharmonie de Paris for a unique and singular creation, which won him the Prix des Indés in the Live category.
At the end of 2018, during the web & TV series
In 2019, Rone records Motion, a 12-minute electro-classical piece in which the dreamlike arpeggios of his machines blend perfectly with the sound of the instruments of the 85 classical musicians of the Les Siècles orchestra conducted by François-Xavier Roth.
Invited by the renowned Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris for a carte blanche, Rone and the
This is followed by the release of
In the spring of 2020, during the long weeks of confinement and distancing, Rone decided to launch the
A month before the album’s release, Rone wins the César for Best Original Soundtrack for the film
The resumption of live performances should see Rone surprise his audience once again in June 2021 with a classical reinterpretation of his repertoire at the Lyon Auditorium, accompanied by the Orchestre National de Lyon conducted by Dirk Brossé.https://infine-music.com/externalRONEMusician and composerGuillaume SCIAMASound engineerGuillaume Sciama began working as a sound engineer in 1972 for Radio Canada / CBC, where he remained for three years.
His career then moved on to audiovisual production, where he worked as chief sound operator on 90 feature films and some 30 TV movies, documentaries and commercials.
In the course of his varied and prestigious career, he has worked with many renowned directors: Alexandre Arcady, Olivier Assayas, Jean Becker, Etienne Chatiliez, Patrice Chéreau, Elie Chouraqui, Raymond Depardon, Robert Enrico, Philippe Garrel , Pierre Granier Deferre, Michäel Haneke, Bertrand Tavernier, Régis Wargnier … He has also worked on numerous film and documentary projects:
La Reine Margot by Patrice Chéreau, Journal de France by Raymond Depardon and Claudine Nougaret, La Pianiste, Le Ruban Blanc, Amour by Michael Haneke, … Regularly nominated for Césars, as well as at the Cannes Film Festival, his work on sound creation was rewarded in 1993 with the César for best sound, along with Dominique Hennequin, another great figure of sound in cinema, for Indochine, by Régis Warnier.
A close associate of La Semaine du Son, Guillaume Sciama collaborated on the creation of the short educational film Les Nuances de la voix, directed by Gérard Corbiau and produced by the association, with the aim of raising awareness of the decibel scale and, in particular, sound dynamics in cinemas.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 GLANDIERPresident of Forum Médias MobilesChristian HUGONNETFounding President of La Semaine du Son Initiator of the Best Sound Creation Award at the Cannes Film FestivalAn 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.Partner of the 4th editionAMPLIFON, OFFICIAL PARTNER OF THE BEST SOUND CREATION AWARDWith 70 years’ experience, Amplifon, world leader in the distribution of hearing solutions, helps its customers rediscover all the emotions of sound.
Amplifon’s 17,500 professionals are committed every day to understanding the unique needs of each individual, offering exclusive, innovative and personalized products and services, so that each customer has the best hearing solution and a unique experience.
The group is present in 26 countries and 5 continents, through 9,000 points of sale.
In France, Amplifon is the leading network entirely dedicated to hearing care, with over 700 centers and 1,350 employees.Awards 2021Jury statementtext-align: center;”NOCHE DE FUEGO” by TATIANA HUEZO AWARD FOR BEST SOUND CREATION 2021 “Un Certain Regardtext-align: center;Under the aegis of its president, director Philippe LE GUAY, the jury for the 4th edition of the Best Sound Creation Award, made up of composers Bruno COULAIS and RONE, sound engineer Guillaume SCIAMA, and Janine LANGLOIS-GLANDIER and Christian HUGONNET, founders of the award, unanimously chose Salvadorian director Tatiana HUEZO for her film “Noche de Fuego”.text-align: center;”Noche de fuego tells the story of three young girls who fall prey to narco violence in a Mexican mountain village. The sounds of nature, the music – in a word, the sound design – contribute to the perception of this harsh, violent world. But the soundtrack is also a poetic counterpoint, drawing us intimately into the sensations of its heroines. Finally, the sound universe bears witness to the humanism of its director Tatiana Huezo and her marvellous actresses Mayra Batalia, Ana Ordonez Gonzalez and Marya Membreno”.Relive the awards ceremonyPressPress kitPress kit 4th edition of the best sound creation award.July 2021Press releaseAnnouncing the winners of the 4th edition of the Best Sound Design Award.Download
RONE
Guillaume SCIAMA
Guillaume Sciama began working as a sound engineer in 1972 for Radio Canada / CBC, where he remained for three years.
His career then moved on to audiovisual production, where he worked as chief sound operator on 90 feature films and some 30 TV movies, documentaries and commercials.
In the course of his varied and prestigious career, he has worked with many renowned directors: Alexandre Arcady, Olivier Assayas, Jean Becker, Etienne Chatiliez, Patrice Chéreau, Elie Chouraqui, Raymond Depardon, Robert Enrico, Philippe Garrel , Pierre Granier Deferre, Michäel Haneke, Bertrand Tavernier, Régis Wargnier … He has also worked on numerous film and documentary projects:
La Reine Margot by Patrice Chéreau, Journal de France by Raymond Depardon and Claudine Nougaret, La Pianiste, Le Ruban Blanc, Amour by Michael Haneke, …
Regularly nominated for Césars, as well as at the Cannes Film Festival, his work on sound creation was rewarded in 1993 with the César for best sound, along with Dominique Hennequin, another great figure of sound in cinema, for Indochine, by Régis Warnier.
A close associate of La Semaine du Son, Guillaume Sciama collaborated on the creation of the short educational film Les Nuances de la voix, directed by Gérard Corbiau and produced by the association, with the aim of raising awareness of the decibel scale and, in particular, sound dynamics in cinemas.
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.
Partner of the 4th edition
AMPLIFON, OFFICIAL PARTNER OF THE BEST SOUND CREATION AWARD
With 70 years’ experience, Amplifon, world leader in the distribution of hearing solutions, helps its customers rediscover all the emotions of sound.
Amplifon’s 17,500 professionals are committed every day to understanding the unique needs of each individual, offering exclusive, innovative and personalized products and services, so that each customer has the best hearing solution and a unique experience.
The group is present in 26 countries and 5 continents, through 9,000 points of sale.
In France, Amplifon is the leading network entirely dedicated to hearing care, with over 700 centers and 1,350 employees.
Awards 2021
Jury statement
“NOCHE DE FUEGO” by TATIANA HUEZO AWARD FOR BEST SOUND CREATION 2021 “Un Certain Regard
Under the aegis of its president, director Philippe LE GUAY, the jury for the 4th edition of the Best Sound Creation Award, made up of composers Bruno COULAIS and RONE, sound engineer Guillaume SCIAMA, and Janine LANGLOIS-GLANDIER and Christian HUGONNET, founders of the award, unanimously chose Salvadorian director Tatiana HUEZO for her film “Noche de Fuego”.
“Noche de fuego tells the story of three young girls who fall prey to narco violence in a Mexican mountain village. The sounds of nature, the music – in a word, the sound design – contribute to the perception of this harsh, violent world. But the soundtrack is also a poetic counterpoint, drawing us intimately into the sensations of its heroines. Finally, the sound universe bears witness to the humanism of its director Tatiana Huezo and her marvellous actresses Mayra Batalia, Ana Ordonez Gonzalez and Marya Membreno”.
