{"id":1233,"date":"2018-02-08T23:26:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T23:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=1233"},"modified":"2021-03-08T19:51:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T19:51:27","slug":"little-gems","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/2022-winners\/awards-2\/little-gems\/","title":{"rendered":"LITTLE GEMS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LITTLE GEMS <\/strong>\/ Les P\u00e9pites<\/em><\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1518132299281{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]West Coast Premiere \u2022 Documentary \u2022 France, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

DCP \u2022 2.35 \u2022 Dolby 5.1 \u2022 Color \u2022 88 min<\/p>\n

Written and Directed by<\/strong>: Xavier de Lauzanne
\nCinematography<\/strong>: Jer\u00f4me Krumanecker, Mono Yim
\nFilm Editing<\/strong>: Florence Ricard
\nOriginal Score<\/strong>: Camille Rocailleux
\nProduced by<\/strong>: Fran\u00e7ois-Hugues de Vaumas, Xavier de Lauzanne (Aloest Productions), Yves Darondeau, Christophe Lioud, Emmanuel Priou (Bonne Pioche Cin\u00e9ma)
\nInternational Sales<\/strong>: Lucky You<\/p>\n

This uplifting documentary celebrates the humanitarian work of a humble French couple that dedicated their retirement years to bettering the lives of Cambodia\u2019s garbage-dump children. Christian and Marie-France des Palli\u00e8res are an unlikely pair of heroes. In the 1990s, they came upon an apocalyptic scene of ragged children trawling through a heaving landscape of junk, filth, and toxic waste trying to scavenge anything of value. These latter day ragpickers, some as young as four, exist on the edge of Cambodian society, with no access to education, medicine, or even decent food. Many of them were sold by their parents, abused, raped.\u00a0 The couple settled in Cambodia, determined to make a difference in the lives of these \u201cgems.\u201d.\u00a0Christian, a jovial man of aristocratic heritage, was soon spending his days at the dump, building shelters, and, most importantly, a school. Over the next two decades their foundation, PSE (For a Child\u2019s Smile), would result in salvaging thousands from a bleak future.<\/p>\n

Xavier de Lauzanne<\/strong>\u00a0has been fascinated with Southeast Asia since he began his career as a documentarian.\u00a0 His earliest film was a documentary essay about the veterans of the First Indochinese War. Always drawn to humanitarian stories, de Lauzanne became intrigued with Christian and Marie-France des Palli\u00e8res in 2000 while shooting a promotional film for their foundation PSE.\u00a0 Their association led to a France 5 documentary short\u00a0Pour un sourire d’enfant<\/em>\u00a0in 2002. In 2008 de Lauzanne released\u00a0With One Voice<\/em>, a documentary following a group of Palestinian and Israeli musicians on tour in France. His 2013 documentary\u00a0Enfants valise<\/em>, examined the difficulties of \u201csuitcase kids\u201d, who arrive in France from northern Africa and are expected to quickly adapt to French culture.<\/p>\n

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[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1518132258051{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] LITTLE GEMS \/ Les P\u00e9pites [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1518132299281{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]West Coast Premiere \u2022 Documentary \u2022 France, 2016 DCP \u2022 2.35 \u2022 Dolby 5.1 \u2022 Color \u2022 88 min Written and Directed by: Xavier de Lauzanne Cinematography: Jer\u00f4me Krumanecker, Mono Yim Film Editing: Florence Ricard Original Score: Camille Rocailleux Produced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":628,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1233","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1233","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=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1233\/revisions\/1237"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}