The 1st International Fashion Film Festival @ CANNES 2014

Founded in 2008 by journalist Diane Pernet, ASVOFF involves a program of short films linking contemporary creation big names and emerging talent (Fashion houses, designers, photographers, filmmakers, artistic directors...)

A jury panel of influencers from the arts and media award prizes for for best films. The Paris edition, held annually in October at the Centre Pompidou, takes the form of a more expansive rendez-vous with illustrious guests (William Klein, Mike Figgis, Peter Knapp, Daphne Guinness, Rick Owens, Claude Montana…), as well as conferences, documentaries, feature films and live performances (Rossy de Palma, Woodkid, Rosey Chan …) ASVOFF travels the globe, invited by more than a dozen cultural capitals or prestigious events around the world.

Actor Michael C. Hall from "Dexter" x Diane Pernet

May 19th, 2014 - Cannes International Film Festival

For the second year in a row, Diane Pernet's fashion film festival ASVOFF descended upon the Festival de Cannes, the cinema industry's most illustratious event of the year. A evening that personified the importance of ASVOFF, a veritable crossroads of the fashion, cinema and music industries.

The evening's starstudded program included a special selection of ASVOFF short fashion films involving Stuart Blumberg, Bryan Adams, Erwin Olaf, Ellen Von Unwerth... starring fashion and film muses: Elodie Bouchez, Marisa Tomei, Michael Shannon.

Exclusive screenings of guest filmmaker Julien Landais latest films featuring France's new generation of actors and actresses: Der Doppelganger with Alain Fabien Delon and Inside Me with Nora Amezeder.

Followed by a special screening ofTravelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch, a documentary by Léa Rinaldi, an intimate behind the scenes filming of Only Lovers Left Alive a feature film starring Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston.

Giving a closer look at how fashion and film have long been bedfellows, ASVOFF invited American filmmaker/artist Vincent Gagliostro to present his short film A Darling Party that features Oscar winning costume designer, Julie Harris, for work in the John Schlesinger film, Darling.

Topping off the night's entertainment, ASVOFFs iSpecial Guest DJ Bertrand Burgalat, world-renowned musicien, producer, composer, arranger, mixed the guests an eclectic soundscape of French classics and obscure beats.

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