Bernard Chardère Prize
 

POSTED ON OCTOBER 18, 2018

Like every year during the Lumière festival, three prizes are awarded to film professionals. The festival celebrates the work of journalist Lucien Logette, Director of “Jeune Cinéma,” who will receive the Bernard Chardère Prize this evening.

Trained as a teenager through frequent trips to the Cinémathèque française and film-club culture, he began writing for “Jeune cinéma” when recruited by the magazine’s founding member, Jean Delmas. Logette became editor in 1990, then director. He is also a journalist for magazines “1895” and “La Quinzaine Littéraire,” defending challenging and probing cinephilia. A man of letters as well as cinema, he has directed numerous catalogs of exhibitions and events, and has collaborated with the Lumière festival since its inception.

The Bernard Chardère Prize recognizes a critic and author, a remarkable personality of the cinema.... in the image of the award that bears his name, Bernard Chardère, founder of magazine Positif in Lyon, author, first director and co-founder of the Institut Lumière.

The first Bernard Chardère Prize was awarded in 2012 to journalist and producer Jean-Jacques Bernard, who passed away in November 2015. He was a faithful friend of the Lumière festival from the very beginning, collaborating with a wonderful spirit of generosity. The prize was also attributed to Serge Kaganski (“Les Inrockuptibles”), Danièle Heymann (“Marianne,” “La Masque et la plume” on France Inter radio), Freddy Buache, founder of the Swiss Cinémathèque, writer and historian; in 2016 to pre-eminent critic Michel Ciment, Editor-in-chief of “Positif,” and in 2017 to Eva Bettan, radio journalist and key figure of France Inter.