Passeport Classes

Since 2002, in partnership with the Bordeaux Rectorat, the Fipa has hosted several "Passport Classes" - a one-day programme dedicated to the schools affiliated with the Bordeaux Academy.

Schools attending the Fipa:

Middle School Irandatz from Hendaye Middle School Langevin Wallon from Tarnos Middle School François Truffaut from St Martin Seignanx Upper School René Cassin from Bayonne Upper School Gaston Fébus from Orthez Upper School Navarre from Saint Jean-Pied-de-Port Upper School Louis de Foix from Bayonne

Upper School Saint Thomas d’Aquin from Saint Jean-de-Luz Upper School Bernard Palissy from Agen Upper School Saint Louis Villa Pia from Bayonne Upper School Charles Despiau from Mont de Marsan Upper School Sud Médoc from Taillan Médoc Upper School Saint Christophe from Saint Pée sur Nivelle

Panel discussions

Meet Patrick Jeudy: Truth Through Lies - History, an entity of documents and fiction
Thursday, January 28 at 10 a.m. at the Colisée

“Bit by the bug” of story-telling, Patrick Jeudy looks back at his auteur-director trajectory, revisiting three of his television films: The Eyes of Eva Brown (1991), Marilyn, The Last Takes (2008) and The Four French Lieutenants (1994). In all of his films, he takes leave of the classical and illustrative use of archive footage, in favor of the narrative line. With the help of numerous clips, he will enlighten us about filmmaking as based exclusively on archive images, as well as about the particularities of arranging archival images in the film (the role of narration, of sound, of editing), running up to the manipulation of archival material. He will explain how to mould a fiction out of archival footage and how to stand staunchly by the historical facts, maintaining all the while the form of the fabula.
At times imaginary, always very novelistic, the lives outlined by Patrick Jeudy take us somewhere between the truth and the fiction. Portraits of historical figures between narrative and documentary filmmaking.

France 5 Masterclass: FBI Story (Ep. 3): On The Frontline
Friday, January 29 at 9:30 a.m. at the Colisée and the Médiathèque

A documentary series of five 52-minute films by Fabrizio Calvi and David Carr-Brown FBI, Story retraces the history of America’s 20th century as seen through the prism of the Bureau. The series is steeped in the behind-the-scenes history of FBI as unveiled through hours of exclusive interviews with 50 agents, and as illustrated by documentary images from FBI’s private archives as well as with a great many feature films for which certain mythical histories of the organization have been the inspiration. FBI Story, Ep. 3: On The Frontline deals with FBI’s fight against organized crime from the 60s onwards and with the infiltration of members of the Bureau in the country’s biggest mafia families.

The masterclass will proceed in three distinct steps: following the screening of the documentary, the groups will be taken aside to reflect on the specific issues that concern a documentary series made up of witness accounts and archival materials and regarding special services more generally. This session will conclude with a meeting between all the groups and the film crew (writer, director and/or producer, France 5 programmer), who will speak about the course of the filming, the directorial choices, the voiceover, the archival images, the filmed testimonies etc…