{"id":17361,"date":"2024-07-17T01:21:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T01:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=17361"},"modified":"2024-10-08T22:40:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T22:40:39","slug":"wild-diamond","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wild-diamond\/","title":{"rendered":"WILD DIAMOND"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1721179512409{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">WILD DIAMOND<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">(Diamant Brut)<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/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_1727391338191{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>CINEMA COMPETITION<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>FRENCH NEWAVE 2.0<br \/>\n<\/strong>TRUFFAUT THEATRE<br \/>\n<strong>Drama \/ Coming of Age<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1728427237554{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1<\/strong><br \/>\n8:10 pm (Screening ends at 10:00 pm)<br \/>\n<strong>Followed by a conversation with writer\/director Agathe Riedinger, Producer Priscilla Bertin <\/strong><strong>and actress Malou Khebizi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=&#8221;10&#8243;][mk_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/order-tickets.jpg&#8221; image_size=&#8221;full&#8221; link=&#8221;https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.eventive.org\/schedule\/66fd0c5735e34500482622e0&#8243; align=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1728248983039{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Presented in association with:<br \/>\n<\/b>Pyramide International<br \/>\nStrand Releasing<b><br \/>\n<\/b>Women In Film<br \/>\nELMA<\/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_1727812371252{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]<strong><span style=\"color: #ea1300;\">Los Angeles Premiere<\/span> <\/strong>|\u00a0France |\u00a02024\u00a0|\u00a0Drama, Coming of Age |\u00a0103\u00a0min\u00a0|\u00a0In French with English subtitles<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directed by: <\/strong>Agathe Riedinger<br \/>\n<strong>Written by: <\/strong>Agathe Riedinger<br \/>\n<strong>Produced by: <\/strong>Priscilla Bertin &amp; Judith Nora (Silex Films)<br \/>\n<strong>Cinematography:\u00a0<\/strong>No\u00e9 Bach<br \/>\n<strong>Film Editing:<\/strong> Lila Desiles<br \/>\n<strong>Original Score: <\/strong>Audrey Isma\u00ebl<br \/>\n<strong>Cast: <\/strong>Malou Khebizi (Liane), Idir Azougli (Dino), Andr\u00e9a Bescond (Sabine), Ashley Romano (Alicia), Alexis Manenti (Nathan), Kilia Fernane (St\u00e9phanie), L\u00e9a Gorla (Carla), Alexandra Noisier (Jessy)<br \/>\n<strong>International Sales: <\/strong>Pyramide International<br \/>\n<strong>US Distributor:<\/strong> Strand Releasing<br \/>\n<strong>US Release date:<\/strong> 2025<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">First-time director <strong>Agathe Riedinger<\/strong> expands upon her short film <em>Waiting for Jupiter<\/em> in this cautionary tale of a teenage girl obsessed with fame and her somewhat tainted vision of &#8220;beauty&#8221;. Living in a shabby apartment in the South of France with her deadbeat mom and cherished little sister, Liane aspires to become the &#8220;French Kim Kardashian.&#8221; Her big break comes in the form of an audition for the reality TV show <em>Miracle Island<\/em>. Being cast is a major longshot, but Liane milks the opportunity for all its worth, calling herself an influencer, chronicling her costly and often excruciating body modifications on Instagram, and poring over comments from her thousands of followers with an almost religious fervor. Yet staving off despair in the social-media culture that is her world can sometimes feel like a heartbreaking exercise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A graduate of the \u00c9cole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure des Arts D\u00e9coratifs in Paris, <strong>Agathe Riedinger<\/strong> has written and directed three short films, <em>Paul Ange Martin<\/em> (2015); <em>Waiting for Jupiter<\/em> (2017); and <em>\u00c8ve<\/em>, which was screened as part of the Lab Competition at the 2019 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. She has directed several commercials and music videos over the past decade. <strong><em>Wild Diamond<\/em><\/strong>, her first feature film, premiered in competition at this year&#8217;s Cannes Film Festival and is presented at TAFFF before its release in France.<\/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\/07\/wilddiamond_us.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_1721179512409{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;] WILD DIAMOND (Diamant Brut) [\/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_1727391338191{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;] CINEMA COMPETITION FRENCH NEWAVE 2.0 TRUFFAUT THEATRE Drama \/ Coming of Age [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1728427237554{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;] FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1 8:10 pm (Screening ends at 10:00 pm) Followed by a conversation with writer\/director Agathe Riedinger, Producer Priscilla Bertin and [&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-17361","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17361","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=17361"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19758,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17361\/revisions\/19758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}