The Heart Spoke is Hadrien Don Fayel’s first documentary. It went into International Film Festivals around the world and won the Aurora Gold Award for Documentary – Cultural
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Hadrien Don Fayel’s Testimonial :
Tiphaine was of great help for my film. She was there from the very start of its creation: she helped me create the interview and came with me to meet Jean Touzet. Then, when the film was finished, she took care of the subtitles, and then took care of the international submissions of the film.
As a result, the film has been shown in many venues, mainly in the states and in Canada.
I am now working with her as an actress on my next project, my first Feature Film, Nature’s Breath, where she plays one of the lead. The project is in post-production.
Hadrien Don Fayel
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Director Statement
The films offers actions scattered in time but that coordinate when juxtaposed in order to suggest what Jean Touzet’s activity was within the Cannes Festival. As a matter of fact, his experience in managing a great number of people as a choir or orchestra conductor or as the director of many theatre shows played a large part in his directing of the festival. So that the key word when it comes to qualifying Jean Touzet’s work in the festival is Coordination.
Similarly to the work of choir singers in the old days, the work of the numerous “actors” present at the festival had to be done in unison.
The man says it : all is organization, coordination, result.
Thus the pretendingly scattered fragments display the path Jean Touzet was able to give to the festival : from the idea to the result.
According to him, be it a film or a venue such as the festival, it all starts with a feeling, grows administratively, materializes into a result and ends up as a feeling within the spectator this time.
As Jean Touzet explains it : before depending on the ministry of Culture, the cinema belonged to the ministry of Industry. Therefore the people working for the festival were first serving Industry, then Culture. Later on, the cinema found its place and artistic criteria came prior to financial choices or cultural choices specific to each country. A single committee was set up to choose the films to be shown at the festival. From that moment on, the selection was solely determined by the communion of a few people’s artistic taste for the cinema. It is in this state of mine and with no commercial purpose that Jean Touzet launched the Cannes Festival.
The film shows this process based on the feelings of a man moved by numerous passions that he later used to make the Cannes Festival evolve from what it was in the 30’s to its incomparable achievement in the 60’s.
