ROUND TABLES 2012



Like every year, the Rencontres Henri Langlois invite the representatives of cinema training organizations in Poitiers. This is the opportunity to come to the screenings and find out about the selection of student films, but also to meet, discuss and exchange about common problematics.

This year, two professional round tables are organized:
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â–  Schools' meeting
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â–  Teaching film music

> To attend to or to participate in the round tables, use the booking form at the bottom of this page.
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> You can download transcriptions of our round tables in the "resources centre".

Schools' meeting
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> 2012 December Thursday 6, 10am-1pm (program in PDF)

As part of the Focus "From Balkans to Black Sea", four cinema schools will be invited to present their work, to exchange ideas with their counterparts around common problematics and to meet with teachers, studies directors, superintendents…
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An important delegation of professionals will come to confront their working methods with those of other schools. These exchanges will help our attendees to be better acquainted with the way those various structures work and to mutually enrich their views about teaching.
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This round table will allow us to carry out interactions between the different school executives and to promote partnerships and cooperations.


Focus' schools
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NAFTA, National Academy for Theatre & Film Arts, Sofia, BULGARIA
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ADU, Akademija Dramske Umjetnosti, Zagreb, CROATIA
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UNATC, Universitatea Naţională de Artă Teatrală şi Cinematografică, Bucarest, ROMANIA
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FDU, Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade, SERBIA

Teaching film music
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>2012 December Friday 7, 10am-1pm (program in PDF)

Since 2005 the Festival has been dedicating part of its scheduling to film music (through workshops, cinema lessons, films accompanied by live music). This 35th edition will be focused on the part given to the soundtrack in cinema schools. Hence one of the round tables will deal with soundtrack teaching.

Most composers specialized in cinema are self-taught; names such as Alexandre Desplats, Ludovic Bource or Bruno Coulais are well-known by all film professionals and confirm the fact that soundtrack composing is a profession in its own right. Considering the growing needs in this field, specific trainings are more and more needed. Is it a part that should be played by music conservatoires or by cinema schools? Should these two different kinds of institutions work in unison? A project carried out by the National Superior Conservatoire of Music and Dance in Paris, along with a few schools including the Fémis, recently came into being.
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Some of the cinema schools and universities that will attend this round table have already started acting on the project by delivering theoretical and practical knowledge to their students. How are the students brought to question the relationship between music and pictures in their curriculums? How do they reflect about the role played by music at the very birth of a project? How are collaborations between training directors and composers encouraged and carried out? This round table will give an insight on different teaching methods, which nevertheless share a common vision of music as a precious ally to films right from their creation.
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In order to support those reflections and prepare for the round table, a workshop with young directors and composers in residence will take place at the Festival, in collaboration with the SACEM (Company for authors, music editors and composers). The participants will work in duet, trying to find a common musical and cinematic language, enriched with the specificities and requirements proper to each kind of artistic creation.

Music composer Nicolas Errera will host this round table.