The Quebec Series seem to go excelled at the Canneseries festival in France on Wednesday, winning the student award for best short series.
This award is given by a jury of 12 students from the University of the Côte d’Azur. L’air d’aller, a new series by director Sarah Pellerin, broadcast for a few weeks on Télé-Québec, was one of the ten films in the Canneseries short series competition.
Catherine St-Laurent, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Joakim Robillard and Noémie Leduc-Vaudry defend the roles of four young friends in their twenties who suffer from cystic fibrosis.
The series Lac-Mégantic – ce n’est pas une accident by director Philippe Falardeau, presented in competition in the documentary film section of the festival, went away empty-handed. Ditto for the Quebec fiction series Bon matin Chuck (or the Art of Harm Reduction), which was one of ten titles in the Long Series category.
It was the Norwegian series Power Play that won the best music award as well as the best series award.
Canneseries is a television festival that has been held every April in the same venue as the prestigious Cannes Film Festival on the French Riviera for the past six years.