Young Director Award's dramatic start

Last week, in Cannes, it was the 25th anniversary of the Young Director Award, which has been supported by shots since its inception.

There was a host of amazing work on show, from a series of future star-directors, all of which will be available to view on the shots site shortly. Ahead of the show, though, was the winner of this year's annual Born to Create Drama competition, in which directors and companies are tasked with creating a short film which highlights the dramatic sensibilities of those who sit in the director's chair.

This year's winner came from Frank Ychou and was produced by Cédric Barus and Pierre Cazenave through Paris-based Soldats. The film is a brilliantly anarchic look at a film set on which there is a megalomaniacal, all-powerful director, some unusual cast members, a team overwhelmed by events and a version of 'the greatest story ever told'. 

Ychou says of the film that he wanted to "make a metaphor of artistic creation through the spectrum of The Original Creation. This new film is a love letter for our job and for those who allow films to exist. I started from the principle that if humans were born to create drama, the creation of humans was therefore the origin of drama."