PostED ON 20.10.2022

Arnaud Brun, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Adéquat Group explains the commitment of the Lyon-based company to the Lumière Film Festival.

What does the Lumière Film Festival mean to a Lyon-based company like Adéquat?  

It’s the foundation of a creation and a success, where everything began for the cinema and for our group. The Lumière Film Festival is currently the world's leading event for heritage films, with more than 170,000 festivalgoers. For its part, the Adéquat Group is one of the world's forty largest recruitment companies, with 200,000 people helped into permanent or temporary employment each year. Since 2014, the Adéquat Group's commitment to the festival has been threefold: to support the influence of the 7th Art (and more specifically heritage cinema) throughout the world, to affirm its attachment to Lyon and its cultural wealth, and to promote this ‘festival for all’ spirit among its permanent employees, temporary workers and clients…

During the festival you organise a job dating session for volunteers. Can you describe this initiative for us?

Given our core business and our commitment, it was natural for the Adéquat brand to offer its expertise and support to Festival volunteers. We are therefore offering them a half-day of exchanges in the form of a workshop led by teams specialising in recruitment strategy. Some of the volunteers are looking for a job or would simply like advice on how to change jobs. This meeting allows them to exchange ideas freely and to receive personalised, even individual, support. Since 2014, this job dating event has brought together between 50 and 60 volunteers per year, with a wide range of profiles.

On a personal level, what is your favourite memory of the Lumière Film Festival? 

Every year we have the opportunity to have fascinating interactions and encounters dealing with the cinema, but I especially remember the chance of experiencing a screening with more than 5,000 people at the Opening Ceremony. Louis Garrel's wonderful film, ‘The Innocent’, screened this year, reminds us that nothing can replace the movie theatre and the shared emotions of the cinema.

Interview by A. D.