Tribute to Moreau to Include Films Aided by Equinoxe Assn.

In connection with the tribute to Jeanne Moreau tonight at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Equinoxe Assn., of which Moreau is president, will present four films that it helped develop.

They will be shown Friday and Saturday at LACMA, which itself will launch a series of films starring Moreau. The LACMA Moreau series will begin Sunday with a 7 p.m. screening of Jacques Demy’s “Bay of Angels” (1962), with Moreau in attendance.

Dedicated to bridging the European and American filmmaking communities, the 5-year-old Equinoxe is sponsored by France’s Canal Plus, Sony Pictures Entertainment and other companies. Twice a year, in April and October, at a chateau in Bordeaux, a dozen or so carefully selected promising screenwriters from the U.S. and Europe are invited to attend the International Screenwriters Workshops organized by Equinoxe. Equinoxe was founded in 1993 by its vice president and artistic director, Noelle Deschamps, and Canal Plus.

Each year Equinoxe receives about 1,000 scripts from screenwriters who already have had professional experience. Since its inception, Equinoxe has seen 95 screenwriters benefit from the advice of more than 100 advisors. Twenty-six films, whose scripts were developed at Equinoxe, have been released internationally, including “Ma Vie en Rose,” winner of the 1998 Golden Globe for best foreign-language film.

“Ma Vie en Rose” will screen Friday at LACMA after the 7 p.m. screening of James Huth’s black comedy “Serial Lover.” Christophe Ruggia’s “Le Gone du Chaa^ba,” about the young people of a shantytown of Algerian immigrants in a Lyon suburb, will screen Saturday at 7 p.m., followed by Laurent Bouhnik’s prison drama “Zonzon.” Discussions with the film’s directors and advisors will follow all screenings except for “Ma Vie en Rose.”

A seminar with Moreau, Deschamps, Ian Birnie, LACMA film programmers and several American filmmakers who have participated in the Equinoxe workshops will be held Saturday at LACMA at 5 p.m.

Scripts should be submitted to Deschamps, Equinoxe Assn., 4 Square du Roule, Paris 75008, France. (011-33) 1-53-53-44-88. LACMA: (323) 857-6000.