This afternoon at 6:00 PM at the National Museum of Sport, there will be an award ceremony for the winning films in the five categories, in the presence of sports authorities and municipal and departmental elected officials.
For the record, 439 films registered on the international platform to submit their candidacy. After a long selection process, the jury—composed of Bernard Maccario, president of the Creps of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region, Jean-Gérard Guarino, vice-president of the Panathlon, and Bruno Kauffman, teacher and head of the High-Level Sports sector at BBA Edhec—chose the five winners who will receive the Best Film Award, and the three who will receive an honorable mention from the President of FICTS, Prof. Franco Ascani, a member of the IOC’s Culture and Heritage Commission.
The Friends of the Museum of Sport will present a special award, the “Sporting Heritage,” to two directors of films on historical subjects.
The CDOS 06, in turn, will honor four locally produced films.
A special prize will be offered to Maud Bessi, a pioneer of women’s football, as a symbolic gesture on the eve of the first FIFA Women’s World Cup match in Nice.
The 4th Nice Côte d’Azur Sport Film Festival is one of the 16 “stages” of the FICTS World Challenge. The winning films in the various categories of each national festival (Nice representing France) will be presented at the final competition to be held in Milan, Italy, from October 25 to 30.
In 2018, two films from the Azurean selection, the film “Semper vivens” about the history of basketball in the Côte d’Azur and the Antibes club, and the clip “Shake in foot” from the TNN, were awarded, the first with the Golden Garland, the latter with an Honorable Mention.
