Colcoa Information

COLCOA, the largest French Film Festival in the world was founded in 1997 by The Franco-American Cultural Fund, a unique collaborative effort of the Directors Guild of America, the Motion Picture Association, the Writers Guild of America West, and France’s Society of Authors Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM). COLCOA is the acronym of “City of Light, City of Angels” the original name of an event celebrating relationships between filmmakers from Paris and Los Angeles, the two historic capitals of cinema. COLCOA is committed to promoting new French films in the U.S. and to showcasing the diversity of French cinema and French television programs. In 20 years, 676 films have been showcased. COLCOA has continually evolved to become a 9-day showcase of at least 70 films, with a capacity of more than 27,000 moviegoers in 2016, an average of 3,000 attendees per day, and an occupancy rate of 92%. With 25,000 attendees in 2016, COLCOA is now one of the four largest film festivals in Los Angeles. The festival takes place in April for nine days at the Directors Guild of America.