{"id":17525,"date":"2024-08-05T19:52:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T19:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=17525"},"modified":"2024-10-01T21:13:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T21:13:18","slug":"the-trigger-la-fievre","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/the-trigger-la-fievre\/","title":{"rendered":"THE TRIGGER   La Fi\u00e8vre"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1725040202822{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">THE TRIGGER<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">(La Fi\u00e8vre)<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=&#8221;20&#8243;][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; accent_color=&#8221;#ea1300&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1727375100450{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TELEVISION COMPETITION<br \/>\n<\/strong>MELVILLE THEATRE<br \/>\n<strong>Series, Drama \/ Thriller, Episodes 1 &amp; 2<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/free-sn-rsvp-1.jpg&#8221; image_size=&#8221;full&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1727817195985{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 30<\/strong><br \/>\n9:55 pm<\/li>\n<li><strong>FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1<\/strong><br \/>\n10:55 am (Screening ends at 1:00 pm)<\/li>\n<li><strong>SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2<\/strong><br \/>\n1:00 pm (Screening ends at 3:05 pm)<\/li>\n<li><strong>SUNDAY NOVEMBER 3<\/strong><br \/>\n7:00 pm (Screening ends at 9:05 pm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1727817138691{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Presented in association with:<br \/>\n<\/b>StudioCanal<b><br \/>\n<\/b>TITRAFILM<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=&#8221;20&#8243;][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; accent_color=&#8221;#ea1300&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1727199103770{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]<strong><span style=\"color: #ea1300;\">North American Premiere<\/span><\/strong> |\u00a0TV Series | France\u00a0|\u00a02024\u00a0|\u00a0Drama, Thriller |\u00a06 x 52\u00a0min | Episodes 1 &amp; 2 | In French with English subtitles<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directed by: <\/strong>Ziad Doueiri<br \/>\n<strong>Created by:<\/strong> Eric Benzekri<br \/>\n<strong>Written by: <\/strong>Eric Benzekri, Laure Chichmanov, Anthony Gizel<br \/>\n<strong>Produced by: <\/strong>Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano (Quad+Ten), Laura Rembault (L\u00e9on Productions), Eric Benzekri<br \/>\n<strong>Cinematography:\u00a0<\/strong>Tommaso Fiorilli<br \/>\n<strong>Film Editing: <\/strong>Eric Armbruster, Camille Toubkis<br \/>\n<strong>Original Score: <\/strong>Paul-Marie Barbier, Julien Grunberg<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Cast: <\/strong>Nina Meurisse (Sam berger),\u00a0Ana Girardot (Marie Kinsky),\u00a0Benjamin Biolay (Fran\u00e7ois Marens), Xavier Robic (Tristan Javier), Alassane Diong (Fod\u00e9 Thiam), Pascal Vannson (Pascal Terret), Assa Sylla (Fatou Thiam), Lou-Adriana Bouziouane (Kenza Chelbi)<br \/>\n<strong>International Sales: <\/strong>StudioCanal<br \/>\n<strong>Original Broadcast:<\/strong> Canal+ (March 2024)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The glitterati of French football attend an annual awards ceremony, when scandal erupts. A Black football star headbutts his white coach and lets out a racist slur, triggering an enormous wave of media backlash, accusations of anti-white racism and urgent demands for his expulsion from the team. A PR crisis management firm is immediately brought in to diffuse the situation and save the team&#8217;s future, as a society torn apart by identity conflicts teeters on the brink of chaos and civil war. Considered &#8220;one of the most ambitious French series of recent years&#8221; by <em>Les Inrockuptibles<\/em> magazine, <strong><em>The Trigger<\/em><\/strong> dissects a media storm blown out of proportion and, in doing so, takes on the burning socio-political issues of culture wars, polarization, radicalization, social media influencers, and the rise of the alt-right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Series creator and showrunner <strong>Eric Benzekri<\/strong> is a political-advisor-turned-screenwriter best known for the gritty mega-hit political drama series, <em>Baron Noir<\/em> (COLCOA 2017), starring Kad Merad, on Canal+. His previous writing credits include the feature film <em>The Adulteen<\/em> (2013), and the series <em>Lascars<\/em> (2016-2020) and <em>Maison Close<\/em> (2010). After ten years as an assistant cameraman, the Lebanese-born <strong>Ziad Doueiri<\/strong> turned to directing in 1998 and has garnered numerous film festival awards for his films. His directing credits include the features <em>West Beirut<\/em> (1998), <em>Lila dit \u00e7a<\/em> (2004), <em>The Attack<\/em> (COLCOA 2013), and<em> The Insult<\/em> (2017), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; as well as the series <em>Baron Noir<\/em> (COLCOA 2017), <em>Inhuman Resources<\/em> (2020) and <em>C\u0153urs Noirs<\/em> (2023).<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][mk_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/the-trigger-theo-baudoin.jpg&#8221; image_size=&#8221;full&#8221; frame_style=&#8221;gray_border&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1725040202822{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;] THE TRIGGER (La Fi\u00e8vre) [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=&#8221;20&#8243;][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; accent_color=&#8221;#ea1300&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1727375100450{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;] TELEVISION COMPETITION MELVILLE THEATRE Series, Drama \/ Thriller, Episodes 1 &amp; 2 [\/vc_column_text][mk_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/free-sn-rsvp-1.jpg&#8221; image_size=&#8221;full&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1727817195985{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;] WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 30 9:55 pm FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1 10:55 am (Screening ends at 1:00 pm) SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2 1:00 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17525","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17525"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19552,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17525\/revisions\/19552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}