Janine Bazin

Janine Bazin ( Kirsch; 29 January 1923 – 31 May 2003) was a French film and television producer of the French New Wave movement. Alongside André S. Labarthe, she was the co-producer of an hour-long series of programmes called Cineastes de Notre Temps (English: Filmmakers of Our Time), which was broadcast from 1964 to 1974. From 1980, Bazin was co-producer of the series Cinema De Notre Temps and established the Entrevues Belfort Film Festival. The Janine Bazin Award for Best Performance was named after her.

Biography On 29 January 1923, Bazin was born Janine Kirsch in Paris. At the age of 25, she became secretary of the film department of the Work and Culture, aiming to attract cinema, concert and theatre goers at an association established at the time of the Liberation of Paris. whom she married in May 1949. They had one child. The couple were instrumental in the career development of François Truffaut, the future film director who had a troubled childhood and who was released from house arrest with intervention from the Bazin's after Truffaut twice deserted during his military service in the French Army. Bazin died at Villeneuve-Saint-Georges Hospital,