"The festival is growing as the television event for the greatest number in all its diversity", told AFP its general manager, Christian Cappe, welcoming the arrival of streaming programs (entertainment, games and magazines) while the event has so far been devoted to fiction and documentaries.
To mark this novelty, the festival will welcome host Michel Drucker, who has presented the entertainment program "Vivement Dimanche" on France 2 and then France 3 since 1998.
In addition, Luchon includes for the first time in its programming the festival "Ecran Jeunesse" celebrating films and series for children and adolescents, the two previous editions of which took place in the Hautes-Pyrénées.
Luchon now covers "all television activity outside of news programs and sport", underlined Mr. Cappe, which earned him, he adds, to be compared by some to the Golden Seven.
Les Sept d'or was a French television awards ceremony organized by the program magazine Télé 7 Jours until the 2000s.
In addition to the competitions, the Luchon TV festival will also host audiovisual meetings, in the form of workshop-debates and seminars, with the aim of formulating "regulatory proposals" to develop the sector.
For the competitions, the actor and producer Bruno Solo will chair the documentary jury, the host Laurence Boccolini that of the streams and the actress Mathilda May, that of the fictions.
The festival expects 600 accredited professionals and some 13,000 spectators.
The latter will for example be able to discover a preview of "Colossus with clay feet", a television film with Eric Cantona which tells the story of the former rugby player Sébastien Boueilh, victim of pedocrime and president of the awareness association of the same name.
Also on the program on the fiction side, "Fille de pays" on the difficulties of a couple of farmers rescued by the online kitty launched by their daughter, "Comme mon fils", a road movie of a thug on the run played by Tomer Sisley who takes in a little boy abandoned by his mother, or "I was born at 17", adapted from the story of TV host Thierry Beccaro, victim of violence from his father during his childhood.
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