AFC announces the first edition of AFC Prizes (Prix AFC)

The AFC prizes will reward excellence in cinematography in five different categories.

The award ceremony will take place in Paris during an exceptional evening at the 2024 Micro Salon on February 7.

All projects released in France after September 7, 2022, are eligible. Submissions are now open until October 7, 2023.

Details

• Open to all cinematographers regardless of their nationality or membership in any professional associations (for the first 4 awards categories).
• Open to all works, regardless of country of origin, provided they have been screened, aired or streamed in France (cinema, television, streaming service publicly available in France).

Categories

• Feature films: theatrical release in France or broadcast on a streaming service in France.
• Series: episodes of a series or mini-series (any season), broadcast on television or a streaming service in France (minimum duration 26mn).
• Motion pictures made for television – TV movies: a narrative that was first broadcast on a public access French television channel (TF1; France Télévisions; Arte; M6; etc.)
• Documentaries: Documentary features with a theatrical release in France or released on a streaming service in France or on a French television channel, and which have a minimum duration of 60 minutes.
• First or second feature of a cinematographer who is French or is a French tax resident. The work must have been released in the cinema in France or on streaming services in France.

Rules & Terms can be found on the Prix AFC website.