THEORNANO-VALENTI PRIZE

During the Deauville American Film Festival's Awards Ceremony, an international jury composed of Anglo-Saxon journalists and chaired by Jean-Guillaume d'Ornano officially presents the d'Ornano-Valenti Award to the winning film of the year. Created in 1991 by the member companies of the Motion Picture Association, an association of six American film production and distribution studios, this award, dedicated to the memory of the former minister, mayor of Deauville and co-founder of the American Film Festival, rewards a first French film in order to help its recognition, promotion and export. In 2015, it was renamed the d'Ornano-Valenti Award in tribute to Jack Valenti, initiator of the Award, and to the friendship that united the two men and their families, all of whom were very attached to the Deauville American Film Festival.

The 2018 winner is the film LES CHATOUILLES directed by Andréa BESCOND & Éric METAYER
 

Odette is eight years old, she likes dancing and drawing. Why should she be suspicious of a friend of her parents who offers her to "play tickle"? Once she becomes an adult, Odette frees her speech, and plunges body and soul into her dancing career, into the whirlwind of life...