Institut Lumiere awards 'Polisse'

MADRID -- "Polisse," directed by French actress-switched-helmer Maiwenn, has won the Lumiere Institute's eighth Jacques Deray Prize, an award produced through the Lyon Institute's director Thierry Fremaux, also Cannes general delegate. Named following the Gallic director of 1970's small-time gangster movie "Borsalino," with Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo, the plaudit is offered to films produced in France's lengthy and illustrious "policier" tradition of crime thrillers, cop dramas or film noirs. Among France's large 2011 outbreaks, gritty ensemble drama "Polisse" puts a contemporary spin around the genre, concentrating on cops your Parisian Child Protection Unit. "Polisse" is created by Alain Attal at L'ensemble des Productions du Tresor, the ambitious trendy production house behind Guillaume Canet's "Tell NobodyInch and "Little Whitened Lies." Growing in stature after an upbeat reception competing at Cannes, "Polisse" demonstrated the 3rd greatest-grossing French movie of 2011, making Euros14.8 million ($19.two million) after Mars Distribution topper Stephane Celerier made the decision to produce the film last October on the bold 400-print run, urged by previews, focusing on both inner-city theaters and mainstream multiplexes. Past award readers include a lot of France's most searched for-after company directors your genre that's garnering good-to-great B.O. in your own home, plus worldwide sales and remake deals abroad. Fred Cavaye, whose "Anything On HerInch was remade as Russell Crowe-starrer "The Following 72 Hours,Inch won this year for "Point Blank" "The Artist" director Michel Hazanavicius required home this years plaudit for Mission Impossible lick "OSS 117: Lost in Rio," with "The Artist's" Jean Dujardin. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com