PATRICIA MAZUY

President of the jury

A native of Dijon and a good student, Patricia Mazuy wanted to go to the Louis Lumière school but entered HEC to satisfy the wishes of her father, a baker. There she confirmed her love for westerns and thrillers, discovered the Doors, who were already dead, and eventually left for Los Angeles. There, she shot a short film on her babysitter’s salary and met Agnès Varda and her editor Sabine Mamou. Three years later, Varda hired her as a trainee on Une Chambre en ville. She learned and became an editor. After editing Sans toit ni loi, she devoted herself to her first film, Peaux de vaches, and has been working on a series of projects ever since. Her latest feature, La Prisonnière de Bordeaux, was released at the end of 2024.

SÉBASTIEN BETBEDER

After studying at the Beaux-Arts and then the Fresnoy, Sébastien Betbeder has made a number of short and medium-length films (including Inupiluk, which won the Jean Vigo prize), and nine feature-length films, including Nuage (Locarno), 2 automnes 3 hivers (Acid Cannes), Ulysse & Mona (Toronto), Tout fout le Camp… Shot with a concern for independence, his films allow him to experiment all kinds of stories, with comedy his favorite genre. After Le voyage au Groenland, in 2024 he decided to travel to the island once again to direct L’Incroyable femme des neiges, which premiered at the Berlinale in February 2025. Sébastien Betbeder has directed a number of medium-length films shown in competition at Brive.

AGATHE BONITZER

Daughter of filmmakers Sophie Fillières and Pascal Bonitzer, the actress made her debut as a teenager, notably in Noémie Lvovsky’s Les Sentiments.  At the age of 18, Christophe Honoré cast her as Marie Valois in his film La Belle Personne. Since then, Agathe Bonitzer has worked with a number of directors, including Agnès Jaoui, Frédéric Videau, Thierry Binisti, Sébastien Betbeder, Guillaume Nicloux, Jeanne Labrune, Ado Arrietta, Damien Manivel, Angela Schanelec, Sébastien Bailly and Costa-Gavras. She will be appearing in Affection affection, the next film by Maxime Matray and Alexia Walther, currently in post-production. Alongside her brother Adam Bonitzer and Sophie Fillières’ main collaborators, she has also completed post-production on Ma vie ma gueule, released in September 2024.  Agathe Bonitzer is also a member of the jury that awards the Prix Jean Vigo each year.

JONATHAN MILLET

After studying philosophy, Jonathan Millet set off alone with his camera to film distant countries for image databases. He travelled to and filmed in around fifty countries. He went on to make several short fiction films, including Et toujours nous marcherons, nominated for a César for Best Short Film in 2018, as well as documentaries: Ceuta, douce prison, released in cinemas in 2014, Dernières nouvelles des étoiles, filmed in Antarctica, and La Disparition, filmed in Amazonia. His first feature film, Les Fantômes, opened Critics’ Week 2024 and won the Louis-Delluc Prize for Best First Film.

SFCC CRITICS’ JURY PRIZE

Régine Arniaud

A graduate of the Conservatoire National d’Art Dramatique in Marseille and the École du Louvre in Paris, Régine Arniaud is both an actress and a journalist.As a journalist, for five years she produced Cinesix, M6’s film magazine, as well as hosting the film, culture and trends columns for the 12.45 and 19.45 news programmes. Today, she continues to share her passion for cinema, notably on the television magazine Ci Né Ma.

 

Nicolas Bellet

Journalist / JRI and freelance critic, specialising in cinema and series. A critic for the AV César website and Radio M’s, he is also a columnist for France Infos, a contributor to Kinepolis cinemas and Hautefidélité magazine.

 

Pascal Le Duff

Film critic for the Télégramme de Brest and the monthly Études. Member of the selection committees for the Kinotayo festival in Paris, dedicated to Japanese cinema, and the FEFFS, the European Fantastic Film Festival in Strasbourg.

 

JURY DIFFUSION

Bénédicte Hazé – Programming and events manager at La Baleine cinema (Marseille)
Justine Lévêque – Artistic Director Champs-Élysées Film Festival (Paris)
Laurent Trémeau – Director and programming at Un Festival C’est Trop Court (Nice)

CORRÈZE YOUTH JURY

Maëlys Amavasee
Maddie Berthe Choffin
Constance Boutonnier
Sasha Courault
Maurine Nublat

Coordination: Jade Lavrador

ENERGY SOCIAL ACTIVITIES JURY

Daniel Dexet
Christophe Goursau
Ménéhi Guitard
Monique Léger
Adrien Many
Bernard Mathieu
Brigitte Rampersan

JURY PITCHS

In progress…

SCRIPTWRITING COMPETITION JURY

Frédéric Dubreuil – Producer
Emma Marquardt – Producer
Jean-Baptiste Mees – Director