17th Marrakech International Film Festival November 30 - December 8, 2018

THE MARRAKECH FILM FESTIVAL HONORS TWO OUTSTANDING WOMEN: TRIBUTES TO ROBIN WRIGHT & AGNES VARDA

American actress Robin Wright and French filmmaker Agnes Varda will attend the 17th edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival to receive their Etoile d'Or Awards.

“I’m honored to be receiving the l'Etoile d'Or award at this year’s Marrakech Film Festival. I’m thrilled to be visiting the country of Morocco and grateful to be given this opportunity to experience the Moroccan culture and enjoy such a beautiful location.”

ROBIN WRIGHT stars as Claire Underwood in the Netflix political drama series “House of Cards,” for which she also serves as Executive Producer and has directed multiple episodes. She has received several nominations and awards including a Best Actress - Golden Globe Award for her portrayal as Claire Underwood, making her the first actress to win a Golden Globe for a web television series. Wright has also received consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations in the Outstanding Lead Actress category for House of Cards between 2013 and 2017, and the Outstanding Drama Series category in 2016 and 2017 as a producer on the show. Wright was most recently seen in, “Blade Runner 2049,” “Wonder Woman,” and “Justice League,” which premiered in 2017. In the same year, Wright’s short “The Dark of Night” made its debut at The Cannes Film Festival. Wright is also a co- founder of the socially conscious sleepwear line, Pour Les Femmes. A portion of the proceeds from the line support charitable organizations that help women in the Congo.

Filmography Actress: 2013-2018 House of Cards (TV Series) 2017 Blade Runner 2049 2017 Wonder Woman 2015 Everest 2014 A Most Wanted Man 2013 The Congress 2013 Adore 2011 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2011 Rampart 2011 Moneyball 2010 Behind the Carol: The Full Motion-Capture Experience (Video) 2010 The Conspirator 2009 A Christmas Carol 2009 State of Play 2009 The Private Lives of Pippa Lee 2008 New York, I Love You 2008 What Just Happened 2007 Beowulf 2007 Hounddog 2006 Room 10 (Short) 2006 Breaking and Entering 2005 Sorry, Haters 2005 Empire Falls (TV Mini-Series) 2005 IMax (Short) 2005 Nine Lives 2004 A Home at the End of the World

Filmography Actress (continued): 2003 Virgin 2003 The Singing Detective 2002 White Oleander 2001 The Pledge 2000 Unbreakable 2000 How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog 1999 Message in a Bottle 1998 Hurlyburly 1997 She's So Lovely 1997 Loved 1996 Moll Flanders 1995 The Crossing Guard 1994 Forrest Gump 1992 Toys 1992 The Playboys 1990 State of Grace 1990 Denial 1989 A TV Dante (TV Mini-Series) 1984-1988 Santa Barbara (TV Series) 1987 Home (TV Movie) 1987 The Princess Bride 1986 Hollywood Vice Squad 1983-1984 The Yellow Rose (TV Series)

Filmography Producer: 2016-2018 House of Cards (TV Series) (executive producer - 34 episodes) 2017 The Dark of Night (Short) (executive producer) 2015 When Elephants Fight (Documentary) (executive producer) 2013 The Congress (producer) 2007 Hounddog (executive producer - as Robin Wright Penn) 2003 Virgin (executive producer - as Robin Wright Penn)

"I loved Marrakech before the festival existed, but the addition of cinema makes me even more happy to come back and meet the community of Moroccan and worldwide filmmakers and film buffs."

THE THREE LIVES OF AGNES VARDA Birth in 1928 and childhood in Belgium. Moved to France in 1940 and spent her adolescence in Sète and then in Paris. She earned her Baccalauréat (high-school diploma) and then took course at Ecole du Louvre and Ecole Vaugirard, where she attended evening photography classes. She has lived in Paris XIV since 1951. And made two trips to Los Angeles, where she stayed for quite a while. She was married to Film-maker Jacques Demy, who passed away in 1990. With her late husband, she raised Rosalie Varda-Demy, costume-designer then artistic director, and Matthieu Demy, comedian and film-director.

As a Photographer: During the 1950’s she served as a photographer for the Avignon Festival which was created by Jean Vilar and for the National Popular Theatre, where such artists as Gerard Philipe, Jeanne Moreau, Philippe Noiret were playing … She undertook Reportage (or, coverage) projects in China, Cuba, Portugal and Germany and took personal photographs.

As a Film-maker: In 1954, five years prior to the Nouvelle Vague (the New Wave), Agnes Varda, established Tamaris, a film-production company for her first feature film, La Pointe Courte, which later earned her the title, “Grandmother of the New Wave.” Among the 36 films written and directed by Agnes, alternating between long and short films, documentaries fiction-films, the most well-known include: Cléo de 5 à 7 (1961); Le Bonheur (Happiness) (1964), Sans toit ni loi (Vagabond) (1985), Jacquot de Nantes (1991) The Glaneurs et la Glaneuse (the Gleaners and I) (2000); Les Plages d’Agnès (The Beaches of Agnes) (2008); Agnes de-ci de-là Varda (2011), a series of travels and encounters with artists) … Visages Villages (Faces Places) (2017), co-directed with Artist JR (nominated for an Oscar and a César 2018—for best documentary and best music). Some Awards: 1964: L’Ours d’argent (or, Silver Bear) at the Berlinale (or the Berlin Film Festival) and the Louis Delluc Award for Le Bonheur (Happiness) 1984: César for Ulysse 1985: The Golden Lion at the Mostra of Venice (or, Venice Film Festival) for Sans toit ni loi (Vagabond) 2001: European Film Award for Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse (the Gleaners and I) 2009: César for Les Plages d’Agnes (The Beaches of Agnes) 2016: Roger Ebert Tribute and Inauguration of the Varda Lounge—TIFF, Toronto. Honor Awards: 2001: César 2002: René Clair Award of the French Academy 2008: Honoris Causa Doctorate (or Honorary Doctorate) from the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Gothenburg 2010: Carosse d’Or Award of SRF 2010: Honoris Causa Doctorate (Honorary Doctorate) from the University of Liege 2014: The Leopard of Honor Award at the Locarno Film Festival 2015: Palme d’Or d’Honneur at the Cannes Festival 2017: an Academy Honor Award for all her works

As an Artist: In 2003, at the Venice Art Biennale, Agnes Varda began her life of “visual artist”, installations, videos, and photography. Some of her works: Patatutopia, Les veuves de Noirmoutier (the Widows of Noirmoutier), Paroles de Squatteurs (Words from Squatters), Le Puzzle des bachelier (the Puzzle of High- school diploma students), Le Tombeau de Zgougou (the Tomb of Zgougou), Ping Pong Tong et Camping, Bord de mer (Sea Front), Les Cabanes de cinéma faites en pellicules de film (Cinema Huts made of Film Rolls) Varda in the Collections of : The Cartier Contemporary Art Foundation in Paris; MOMA in New York; Paul Valery Museum in Sète; the Bernard Magrez Foundation in Bordeaux; FRAC of Lorraine; CAFA Art Museum of Beijing; the Hubei Art Museum of Wuhan; LACMA at Los Angeles …. September 2015: Exhibition: Photographs Get Moving (potatoes and shells, too) at the Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago November 2015: Varda/Cuba Exhibition at the Pompidou Center February 2016: Agnes Varda. Patates & Compagnie (Potatoes and Company) at the Ixelles Museum October 2016: Une barrière ouverte (Open barrier) at the Lumière Gallery, Lyon March 2017: Agnes Varda Exhibition at the Blum and Poe Gallery, New York 2018: Agnes Varda Exhibition at Natalie Obadia Gallery in Paris ; Agnes Varda Variacions ao redor da mar, at Pontevedra, Spain ; Participation in the Liverpool Biennale. Today, Agnes Varda’s work combines, alternates, and frames “within frames” her vision and her practice of photography, cinema, video, and space.

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