Award winners in 2023
Every year, French digital creations shine at festivals and events across the globe. Here are the award-winning creations, productions and artists referenced on IFdigital in 2023!
French video games
The video game Another Fisherman's Tale was awarded the European XR Award in Belgium.
French VR
In international festivals
Once again this year, French virtual reality creations won awards at numerous international festivals.
At the Venice International Film Festival, Empereur won the Director's Prize, while Flow was awarded the Jury's Special Prize. At the Tribeca Festival in NYC, Maya: The birth of a superhero, which tells the story of a superhero around the taboo of menstruation, received the special mention "new voices". Eternal Walkers won the Best Immersive Experience Award at the Geneva International Film Festival, while Gaudi, l'atelier du divin won an award at Beyond The Frame in Japan.
The VR documentary series Behind the Dish, which plunges viewers into the world of gastronomy, was awarded the prize for best 360° immersive experience at the Stereopsia European XR Award. From the same producers, the documentary JFK Memento: An Immersive Chronicle of the Assassination won several awards, including the Grand Prix at Beyond the Frame, the Audience Award at South by Southwest and Best VR Work at the Bolton Film Festival.
Web creations
On the big screen
The Marseille Web Fest, leading event for web creation, rewarded numerous French series this year:
The Best Series Award went to Corporate, a series that plunges us into the wild world of an audiovisual production company specializing in corporate communications. Les Frères Pétoux, a fantasy comedy starring Monsieur Poulpe, won Best Direction, while Terrain Sensible, which follows a first romance in Marseille in the middle of summer, won Best Performance. Meanwhile, the mini-series BALTRINGUE, which humorously tackles issues of self-confidence, mental health, aggression and workplace harassment, won the Best Music prize. Finally, Insomniaques, shot without a script, from a simple pitch... won Best Screenplay!
Another great success this year: the adaptation of the Loulou series into a single program won an award at the La Rochelle Festival.
The best of
Audio creation
The award-winning podcasts this year illustrate the diversity of audio content created in 2023.
At the Paris Podcast Festival, Altérée, a breathtaking thriller, won the Fiction Podcast Award. The podcast Free from Desire, about te asexuality of journalist and essayist Aline Laurent-Maillard, won an award at the Tribeca Festival in NYC.
