Inside "Un Village Français," A Small Village During Occupied France

NYU Washington, DC, the French-American Cultural Foundation, and the Embassy of France hosted an afternoon discussion featuring the French film series, Un Village Français. Un Village Français, which focuses on a small village in German-occupied France during the Second World War, recently received American Abroad Media’s annual award (in its 9th year) and has garnered praise and support from Ambassador Etienne.

In today’s program, “Inside Un Village Français, A Small Village during Occupied France” the audience heard from expert panelists Emmanuel Daucé, TV Series Producer & Creator, Marie Line Kremer, Actress, and Frédéric Krivine, Creator & Writer who delved into the history of the series, the time period, film and artistic components, and the challenges and rewards of production. Moderating this conversation was NYU Washington, DC lecturer Sydney Boyd. This discussion was part of a larger series of events hosted by the French Embassy at La Maison Française and the Ambassador’s Residence to honor the television series, Un Village Français.

This program was sponsored by NYU Washington, DC, the French-American Cultural Foundation, and the Embassy of France. Registration was required in order to receive the Zoom log-in details for this webinar. Please note that this program was recorded.

Sydney Boyd is an editor at the Federation of State Humanities Councils and a lecturer at the NYU Washington, DC Program of New York University, where she teaches classes on writing. Her current book project studies how music shapes narrative temporalities in twentieth-century literature, and one of her essays, "The Color of Sound: Hearing Timbre in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man," (2018) is published in Arizona Quarterly. She has an essay forthcoming in Contemporary Literature about Robert Ashley’s opera-novel Quicksand.