Institut Lumiere honours 'Polisse'

MADRID -- "Polisse," directed by French actress-switched-helmer Maiwenn, has won the Lumiere Institute's eighth Jacques Deray Prize, an award created with the Lyon Institute's director Thierry Fremaux, also Cannes general delegate. Named following a Gallic director of 1970's small-time gangster movie "Borsalino," with Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo, the plaudit is provided to films created in France's extended and illustrious "policier" tradition of crime thrillers, cop dramas or film noirs. Among France's large 2011 breakouts, gritty ensemble drama "Polisse" puts a modern day spin round the genre, focusing on cops your Parisian Child Protection Unit. "Polisse" is produced by Alain Attal at Ces Productions du Tresor, the ambitious trendy production house behind Guillaume Canet's "Tell NobodyInch and "Little White-colored Lies." Growing in stature after an upbeat reception competing at Cannes, "Polisse" shown the next finest-grossing French movie of 2011, making Euros14.8 million ($19.2 million) after Mars Distribution topper Stephane Celerier made a decision to create the film last October around the bold 400-print run, advised by previews, concentrating on both inner-city theaters and mainstream multiplexes. Past award visitors include lots of France's most looked for-after company company directors your genre that's garnering good-to-great B.O. in your house, plus worldwide sales and remake deals abroad. Fred Cavaye, whose "Anything On HerInch was remade as Russell Crowe-starrer "The Next 72 Hrs,Inch won this season for "Point Blank" "The Artist" director Michel Hazanavicius needed home this year's plaudit for Jason Bourne lick "OSS 117: Lost in Rio," with "The Artist's" Jean Dujardin. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com