25/02/2014 - The producer at the helm of Les Films du Worso takes away the 7th Daniel Toscan du Plantier Award, presented by the Academy of Film Arts and Techniques

Sylvie Pialat

Last night, Sylvie Pialat, who heads the Paris-based company Les Films du Worso, won the 7th Daniel Toscan du Plantier Award, which was given to the best producers of 2013. Last year, the firm unveiled The Nun [+see also:
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For the record, Sylvie Pialat (a co-scriptwriter on several films by her husband, the filmmaker Maurice Pialat) had been named Producer on the Move by European Film Promotion in 2007, and Cineuropa met her for a chat on that occasion (read the interview). Since then, Les Films du Worso has continued expanding, in particular co-producing the films of Belgian director Joachim Lafosse (including his upcoming title, Les chevaliers blancs). The company, which has just unveiled Guillaume Nicloux’s The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq [+see also:
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In the list of awards given out by the Academy of Film Arts and Techniques, Sylvie Pialat is following in the footsteps of the duo Gaëlle Bayssière and Didier Creste (Everybody On Deck – winners in 2013), Alain Attal (Les Productions du Trésor – 2012), Yaël Fogiel and Laetitia Gonzalez (Les Films du Poisson - 2011), Pascal Caucheteux and Grégoire Sorlat (Why Not Productions - 2010), Thomas Langmann (La Petite Reine) and Pascal Caucheteux (who tied in 2009), and Claude Berri (Pathé Renn Productions - 2008).

(Translated from French)