2024 WORKSHOPS GALLERY
TAFFF & WGAw WORKSHOP
in partnership with UNIFRANCE and France TV
ADAPTING STORIES TO THE SCREEN: FROM WORDS TO WORLDS
Moderated by past WGAW President and FACF Board Member Howard Rodman
SESSION 1: Breathing New Life into the Classics
With the following French films:
The Count of Monte Cristo
with writers/directors Matthieu Delaporte, Alexandre de la Patellière,
Zorro
with showrunner/writer Benjamin Charbit
In conversation with WGAW member/screenwriter Alex Litvak (Three Musketeers)
SESSION 2: Transforming Real Life into Cinema
With the following French Films:
Being Maria
with writer Vanessa Schneider and Producer Marielle Duigou,
Bolero
with writer/director Anne Fontaine
SESSION 3: Bringing Graphic Worlds to Life
Project: In Waves with producer Priscilla Bertin and surfer and illustrator AJ Dungo
In conversation with WGAW member/screenwriter David S. Goyer (Batman film trilogy [Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises], Man of Steel, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, The Sandman series).
ADAPTATIONS AT THE AMERICAN FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2024
FILM
BEING MARIA – Tu t’appelais Maria Schneider by Vanessa Schneider
BOLÉRO – based on an essay by Marcel Marnat
DEATH OF A CORRUPT MAN – Mort d’un pourri by Jean Laborde (under the pen name of Raf Vallet)
EMILIA PEREZ – Écoute by Boris Razon
JIM’S STORY – Le Roman de Jim by Pierric Bailly
MAYBE MORE – adapted from the screenplay Sentimental by Cesc Gay
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO – Le Comte de Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
THE MAN WITH A THOUSAND FACES – director Sonia Kronlund first produced this material as a podcast, then as a book.
TELEVISION/SERIES
A DANGEROUS RELATIONSHIP – Marie des intrigues and Marie des passions by Juliette Benzoni
BECOMING KARL LAGERFELD – Kaiser Karl by Rapgaëlle Bacqué
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU, THE TIGER’S LAST LOVE – Je vous aiderai à vivre, vous m’aiderai à mourir by Nathalie Saint-Cricq
IN THE SHADOWS – Dans l’ombre by Edouard Philippe & Gilles Boyer
SAMBRE – Sambre : Radioscopie d’un fait divers by Alice Géraud
THE BLISSFUL – Les demeurées by Jeanne Benameur
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF KIMMY DIORE – Les enfants sont rois by Delphine de Vigan
ZORRO – the fictional character first appeared in the 1919 serialized novel The Curse of Capistrano, by Johnston McCulley
TAFFF x DGA WORKSHOP
ONE DIRECTOR’S VISION FOR STREAMING SERIES
with Lesli Linka Glatter and Steven Zaillian
Moderated by FACF Board Member Taylor Hackford
Emmy Winner, Lesli Linka Glatter, the current President of the DGA, recently directed all episodes of ZERO DAY , a multi-part political thriller-streaming series for NETFLIX starring Jesse Plemons, Robert DeNiro and Lizzie Caplan.
Oscar and Emmy Winner, Steve Zaillian, directed all 8 episodes of the celebrated RIPLEY for NETFLIX starring Andrew Scott, Dakota Fanning, and Johnny Flynn.
