Given the media hype in 2024, you must know the name – and work – of director Thomas Jolly. At 43, the conductor of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games became president of the commission of the CNC’s video game creators aid fund for a two-year term, following the novelist Maxime Chattam. To be precise, this commission is today made up of 10 regular members and 6 substitutes, including the emeritus composer Olivier Derivière, the editorial director of Focus Yves le Yaouanq, the videographer Modiie and Julie Chalmette, deputy general director of Don’t Nod. With 5 million euros to distribute to French studios each year, this CNC commission has already supported Chants of Sennaar et Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33 For example.
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« Since childhood, I have been playing. Not just in theater – but also in video games », Declares Thomas Jolly in his official press release. “ Over the years, playfulness has been joined by a permanent sense of wonder for an art that never ceases to push the limits of creation, with the place of the player at the heart of this creative process. This is one of the many bridges that I establish between video games and my practice of theater: the same care and the same requirement for those to whom our arts are aimed. » We are inevitably reminded of the inclusion of references to Assassin’s Creed during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, with these hooded figures running from roof to roof to carry the torch through the arrondissements of Paris.
If the appointment of Thomas Jolly as president of the commission is an interesting choice, there remains a fundamental debate: the necessity (or not) of decorrelating this video games assistance commission from the CNC to found a full-fledged organization for the tenth art. A debate which is certainly not ready to be resolved.
You can find the official announcement ici.
