{"id":14278,"date":"2023-08-13T23:09:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T23:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=14278"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:02:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:02:29","slug":"gallant-indies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/gallant-indies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GALLANT INDIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14279\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/gallantindies-248x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/gallantindies-248x350.jpg 248w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/gallantindies-600x846.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/gallantindies.jpg 481w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">GALLANT INDIES<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">| 2021 \u2013 108&#8242; \u2013\u00a0 Documentary, Music &amp; Dance.<br \/>\nWritten by:\u00a0Philippe B\u00e9ziat.<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Philippe B\u00e9ziat.<br \/>\nNorth American Premiere at The <strong>COLCOA French\u00a0Film Festival 2021<\/strong> (Winner Best Documentary Award)<br \/>\nIn French with English subtitles.<br \/>\nA Distrib Films US release.|<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\" font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><em>In the fall of 2019, multi-media artist Cl\u00e9ment Cogitore and choreographer Bintou Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 metaphorically stormed the Bastille, mounting a groundbreaking production of Jean-Philippe Rameau\u2019s baroque opera Les Indes Galantes at the Op\u00e9ra Bastille. What was revolutionary was their casting of 30 mind-blowing, multi-ethnic dancers, each a veritable master of a different form of freestyle street dance \u2014 hip-hop, krumping, voguing, flexing, popping \u2014 to bring Rameau\u2019s masterpiece about colonization and enslavement to life. Philippe B\u00e9ziat\u2019s exhilarating documentary recounts an entire year of rehearsals and preparations leading up to that unprecedented opening night.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gallant-Indies-Cl%C3%A9ment-Cogitore\/dp\/B0B5WSN7K8\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16TFLGAKZEHYS&amp;keywords=Gallant+Indies&amp;qid=1691966029&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sprefix=gallant+indies%2Cinstant-video%2C176&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GALLANT INDIES | 2021 \u2013 108&#8242; \u2013\u00a0 Documentary, Music &amp; Dance. Written by:\u00a0Philippe B\u00e9ziat. Directed by:\u00a0Philippe B\u00e9ziat. North American Premiere at The COLCOA French\u00a0Film Festival 2021 (Winner Best Documentary Award) In French with English subtitles. A Distrib Films US release.| In the fall of 2019, multi-media artist Cl\u00e9ment Cogitore and choreographer Bintou Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 metaphorically stormed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,14,114,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tafff","category-documentary","category-music-dance","category-tafff-awards-winners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=14278"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17905,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14278\/revisions\/17905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}