The Haute Horlogerie Manufacture Girard-Perregaux, partner of the Lumière Film Festival of Lyon for the second year in a row, honored the iconic movie director Pedro Almodovar, recipient of the 2014 award.

The Lumière Award was created to celebrate an outstanding filmmaker, in Lyon, the very place where the cinematograph was invented by Louis and Auguste Lumière, and where they shot their first film, Workers Leaving the Factory, in 1895.

Pedro Almodovar, recipient of the 2014 Lumière Award

After Clint Eastwood, Milos Forman, Gérard Depardieu, Ken Loach and Quentin Tarantino, Pedro Almodóvar received the Lumière Award for his rich filmography, for his intense passion for the cinema that characterizes his work and for the audacious vitality he brings to the screen. Multiple Oscar laureate and Cannes Film Festival winner, Pedro Almodóvar started his career in the early 1980s and has directed 19 movies since then.

On the occasion of the Award ceremony, Girard-Perregaux honored Pedro Almodóvar by presenting him with a Girard-Perregaux Vintage 1945 watch, highlighting the crucial role that time plays in his movies, transforming the characters, their desires and their nature.
Through this partnership, Girard-Perregaux supports the Lumière Institute in its mission to preserve and promote the cinematographic patrimony.
The Brand has committed to actively support the art of filmmaking. Late in 2012, Girard-Perregaux announced it would be the Exclusive Timekeeper and a Founding Supporter of the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, to be located in Los Angeles and slated to open in 2017.

Source: PR/TICULAR for Girard-Perregaux
Picture: Saby Maviel