A scientist by training, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Lavigne has been in charge of the selection of the films at the Angers Premiers Plans Festival from 2000 to 2004. He then became Audiovisual Attach\u00e9 at the French Embassy in London in charge of promoting French cinema in the UK.<\/p>\n
In 2006, he joined the Forum des Images in Paris as Director of Educational Action, before launching and programming the S\u00e9ries Mania festival in 2010. In 2013, this public event dedicated entirely to TV series from around the world added an Official Competition and a Professional Forum.<\/p>\n
In 2018, Frederic Lavigne became full-time Artistic Director of Series Mania, which moved to Lille and grew to 98,000 spectators and 4,200 accredited industry guests by 2024.<\/p>\n","links":false},{"image":{"ID":36488,"id":36488,"title":"DariaBadior_photo","filename":"DariaBadior_photo-e1718050104848.jpg","filesize":1061046,"url":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DariaBadior_photo-e1718050104848.jpg","link":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DariaBadior_photo-e1718050104848.jpg","alt":"","author":"21","description":"","caption":"","name":"3706d23b74e94526afc3d6395447fce4","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":36451,"date":"2024-06-10 20:07:29","modified":"2024-06-10 20:07:29","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1333,"height":1290,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DariaBadior_photo-e1718050104848-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DariaBadior_photo-e1718050104848-250x242.jpg","medium-width":250,"medium-height":242,"medium_large":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DariaBadior_photo-e1718050104848-768x743.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":743,"large":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DariaBadior_photo-e1718050104848.jpg","large-width":900,"large-height":871,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DariaBadior_photo-1024x1536.jpg","1536x1536-width":1024,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DariaBadior_photo-e1718050104848.jpg","2048x2048-width":1333,"2048x2048-height":1290,"large1200":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DariaBadior_photo-e1718050104848-1200x1161.jpg","large1200-width":1200,"large1200-height":1161,"large1800":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DariaBadior_photo-e1718050104848.jpg","large1800-width":1333,"large1800-height":1290,"small":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DariaBadior_photo-e1718050104848-120x116.jpg","small-width":120,"small-height":116,"uncompressed":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DariaBadior_photo-e1718050104848.jpg","uncompressed-width":1333,"uncompressed-height":1290,"custom-size":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DariaBadior_photo-e1718050104848-700x200.jpg","custom-size-width":700,"custom-size-height":200}},"name,_surname":"DARIA BADIOR","position":"Co-curator, Kyiv Critics' Week film festival, Ukraine","description":"
Daria Badior is a cultural critic, journalist and editor from Ukraine.<\/p>\n
She had worked as a Culture editor at one of Ukraine\u2019s most prominent online outlets, LB.ua, also covering film, and cultural and commemoration policies as a journalist. In 2018, she co-founded the Union of Film Critics of Ukraine that awards the best Ukrainian filmmakers with the Kinokolo prize. Now she is a member of the European Film Academy and the Preparatory Committee of the European Press Prize.<\/p>\n
Since 2017, she has been the co-curator at the Kyiv Critics\u2019 Week film festival, which takes place annually in October. Now she is a freelancer, contributing to Ukrainian and international outlets and editing articles in various outlets, and preparing a book about the post-Maidan generation of culture makers.<\/p>\n","links":false},{"image":{"ID":36894,"id":36894,"title":"IMG_2862","filename":"IMG_2862-scaled-e1721767066956.jpg","filesize":559733,"url":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_2862-scaled-e1721767066956.jpg","link":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_2862-scaled-e1721767066956.jpg","alt":"","author":"21","description":"","caption":"","name":"616591c68bd443ae93dda5a2663ccd19","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":36451,"date":"2024-07-23 20:34:36","modified":"2024-07-23 20:34:36","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":939,"height":1116,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_2862-scaled-e1721767066956-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_2862-scaled-e1721767066956-250x297.jpg","medium-width":250,"medium-height":297,"medium_large":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_2862-scaled-e1721767066956-768x913.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":913,"large":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_2862-scaled-e1721766910399-1500x1359.jpg","large-width":900,"large-height":815,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_2862-scaled-e1721766910399-1536x1392.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1392,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_2862-2048x1536.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1536,"large1200":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_2862-scaled-e1721766910399-1200x1087.jpg","large1200-width":1200,"large1200-height":1087,"large1800":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_2862-1800x1350.jpg","large1800-width":1800,"large1800-height":1350,"small":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_2862-scaled-e1721767066956-120x143.jpg","small-width":120,"small-height":143,"uncompressed":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_2862-scaled-e1721767066956.jpg","uncompressed-width":939,"uncompressed-height":1116,"custom-size":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_2862-scaled-e1721767066956-700x200.jpg","custom-size-width":700,"custom-size-height":200}},"name,_surname":"GEOFFREY MACNAB","position":"Freelance journalist, Screen International, The Independent, Business Doc Europe, United Kingdom","description":"
Geoffrey Macnab writes about film for The Independent<\/em>. He is also a senior correspondent at Screen International<\/em>. 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