

Rudes served as US Coordinator for LVT, one of the world leaders in film and digital subtitling. Among the many filmmakers who have presented their work at Cinémonde are Mary Stuart Masterson, Jerry Zaks, John Turturro, Susan Seidelman, Matthew Broderick, Patrice Leconte, Dayna Goldfine & Dan Geller, Jannicke Systad Jacobsen, Frederic Lilien, Jörgen Bergmark, Gianni Di Gregorio, Laurent Tirard, Tammy Simon Hoffs, Jennifer Devoldère and Thierry Binisti.Īs of 2002, Mr. Cinémonde soirées include cocktail receptions, Q&As with the filmmakers and networking opportunities for film, media and entertainment professionals, and those who want to be.
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Mistral Artist was also the platform for the launching of “Cinémonde” in New York City in 2008, a year-round series of invitation-only evenings for film lovers and filmmakers with sneak previews of thought-provoking films from around the world. Among them is filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman (“The Toxic Avenger”), playwright Nathan Sanders (“The Sugar Bean Sisters”), author/director Jack Baxter (“Blues By The Beach”) and actress Maria de Medeiros (“Pulp Fiction”). Rudes represents a diverse group of talented authors, playwrights, directors, screenwriters and actors in America and Europe. Oscard’s passing, Jerome Henry Rudes created Mistral Artist Management, LLC. Rudes played the third lead in a Luc Besson-produced comedy, “Au Suivant!” (“Next!”) directed by Jeanne Biras, alongside Alexandra Lamy and Clovis Cornillac.Īfter a decade with the venerable Fifi Oscard Agency and upon Ms. Rudes co-authored Samuel Fuller’s “A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking,” published in the US by Alfred Knopf in 2004, and in France in 2010 by Editions Allia. Rudes inaugurated the annual Avignon/New York Film Festival in Manhattan in 1994 and directed it for 13 years, based first at Angelika Film Center, then at the French Institute/Alliance Française and finally at Hunter College (CCNY), bringing together in the US, as did the Avignon Film Festival in France, established filmmakers such as Louis Malle, Samuel Fuller, Agnès Varda, Jerry Schatzberg, Claude Lelouche, Roger Corman, David Brown, Curtis Hanson, Mika Kaurismaki, Claude Miller, Paul Schrader, Jean-Charles Tacchella, Bob Rafelson and Paul Mazursky, as well as scores of emerging filmmakers like Cedric Klapisch, Richard Linklater, Arnaud Desplechin, Alexander Rockwell, Christophe Ruggia, Bruno Dumont, Gaspar Noé and Quentin Tarantino. Rudes curated and directed the Avignon Film Festival until its closing in 2008, a 25-year labor of love. Rudes launched the “French-American Film Workshop” in 1984 in Avignon, an annual crossroads of transatlantic independent cinema that evolved into the Avignon Film Festival. Parallel to his educational ventures, Mr. In 1984, he left that position to create the French-American Centers, not-for-profit cultural exchange and teaching organizations with structures in Aix as well as in Avignon, Marseille, Montpellier and Lyon. Rudes was appointed Director of English Studies at the Institute of American Universities in Aix-en-Provence in 1980. It is awarded under the patronage of the President of the French Republic and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Interior, Defense and National Education.Īfter teaching during the 1970s in international schools in Europe, Mr. The medal distinguishes persons who have rendered distinguished service in French language, literature, arts, science and technology. A dual citizen of both the United States and France, Jerome Henry Rudes is the 2014 winner of "La Médaille d'Or du Rayonnement Culturel" for the United States, a prize created by La Renaissance Française" in Paris in 1916 by Raymond Poincaré, then President of France.
