Among the auteurs selected to participate in the writing residency in Brittany are the duo Çağla Zencirci - Guillaume Giovanetti and eight young filmmakers working on feature debut projects. The leading European writing residence for cinema and fiction for several years, Le Groupe Ouest has unveiled its 2021 Annual Selection and the list of auteurs selected for this new edition of the nine month residency. The selection will be supervised by a team of consultants headed by Marcel Beaulieu and which includes Atiq Rahimi, Claire Barré and Pierre Hodgson. After a 2020 edition which successfully adapted to the health crisis (read the news), the 2021 residency begins today with the first of its three sessions in a physical format (while following distancing and health measures of course). Standing out from this 2021 Selection is the duo Çağla Zencirci - Guillaume Giovanetti with Chen & Gan, their third feature project, following...
Overcoming the hurdles posed by the health crisis, Le Groupe Ouest has followed through on the support promised to the eight projects developed by emerging authors who attended its writing residency. "For the very first time, only 50% of the Ouest Group’s Annual Selection process took place on the beaches of Plounéour-Brignogan in 2020. The other half of these sessions were forced to unfold online on account of Covid. And yet the eight chosen projects are a cocktail of considerably rare potency, broaching urgent, necessary and powerfully human topics." For Antoine Le Bos and Charlotte Le Vallégant, who are co-directing the screenwriting mentoring residency, satisfaction is inevitable given the full support these authors were offered between April and December 2020, and by consultants who are themselves scriptwriters. The 2020 Annual Selection, which consists of six first full-length films and two second...
Exclusive: Montreal-based Item 7 has secured a world premiere for its latest film Meetings With A Young Poet and brought on Paris-based Films Distribution to handle sales.
Meetings With A Young Poet will premiere at the International Film Festival Of India that runs until November 30 in Goa.
Rudy Barichello directed from a screenplay he co-wrote with Marcel Beaulieu.
Stephen McHattie (pictured, right) stars alongside Maria de Medeiros and Vincent Hoss-Desmarais (pictured, left) in the story of a young poet who forges a deep friendship with Samuel Beckett only to discover more about his mentor after the celebrated writer’s death.
Item 7’s Pierre Even and Marie-Claude Poulin produced the film. Their credits include last year’s Canadian foreign language Oscar submission War Witch and Café de Flore.
Tva Films will distribute Meetings With A Young Poet in Canada in 2014.
The film is produced with financial contributions by Sodec, Telefilm Canada, Quebec film and television tax credit, [link...
Meetings With A Young Poet will premiere at the International Film Festival Of India that runs until November 30 in Goa.
Rudy Barichello directed from a screenplay he co-wrote with Marcel Beaulieu.
Stephen McHattie (pictured, right) stars alongside Maria de Medeiros and Vincent Hoss-Desmarais (pictured, left) in the story of a young poet who forges a deep friendship with Samuel Beckett only to discover more about his mentor after the celebrated writer’s death.
Item 7’s Pierre Even and Marie-Claude Poulin produced the film. Their credits include last year’s Canadian foreign language Oscar submission War Witch and Café de Flore.
Tva Films will distribute Meetings With A Young Poet in Canada in 2014.
The film is produced with financial contributions by Sodec, Telefilm Canada, Quebec film and television tax credit, [link...
- 11/22/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Montreal-based Item 7 has secured a world premiere for its latest film Meetings With A Young Poet and bought on Paris-based Films Distribution to handle sales.
Meetings With A Young Poet will premiere at the International Film Festival Of India that runs until November 30 in Goa.
Rudy Barichello directed from a screenplay he co-wrote with Marcel Beaulieu.
Stephen McHattie (pictured, right) stars alongside Maria de Medeiros and Vincent Hoss-Desmarais (pictured, left) in the story of a young poet who forges a deep friendship with Samuel Beckett only to discover more about his mentor after the celebrated writer’s death.
Item 7’s Pierre Even and Marie-Claude Poulin produced the film. Their credits include last year’s Canadian foreign language Oscar submission War Witch and Café de Flore.
Tva Films will distribute Meetings With A Young Poet in Canada in 2014.
The film is produced with financial contributions by Sodec, Telefilm Canada, Quebec film and television tax credit, [link...
Meetings With A Young Poet will premiere at the International Film Festival Of India that runs until November 30 in Goa.
Rudy Barichello directed from a screenplay he co-wrote with Marcel Beaulieu.
Stephen McHattie (pictured, right) stars alongside Maria de Medeiros and Vincent Hoss-Desmarais (pictured, left) in the story of a young poet who forges a deep friendship with Samuel Beckett only to discover more about his mentor after the celebrated writer’s death.
Item 7’s Pierre Even and Marie-Claude Poulin produced the film. Their credits include last year’s Canadian foreign language Oscar submission War Witch and Café de Flore.
Tva Films will distribute Meetings With A Young Poet in Canada in 2014.
The film is produced with financial contributions by Sodec, Telefilm Canada, Quebec film and television tax credit, [link...
- 11/22/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (Sodec), Quebec's cultural sponsor for the film industry, announced the 12 lucky feature films that will be subsidized. Speaking of homegrown films, eight will be in French and one will be in English. The rest of the films are co-productions.
Homegrown films in French:
Bo$$É: Directed by Claude Desrosiers, this film is a satirical comedy about financial scandals seen through the eyes of a corrupt man, Bernard Bossé. The film will be scripted by André Ducharme, Luc Déry and Yves Lapierre. The film is produced by Les productions Équinoxe and will be distributed by Alliance Atlantis.
Décharge: A criminal who found redemption randomly meets a prostitute. However, the meeting, brings back in the criminal things from his past. Written by Benoît Pilon and Pierre Szalowski. Directed by Benoît Pilon (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre). Produced by Forum Films and distributed by Remstar Distribution.
Homegrown films in French:
Bo$$É: Directed by Claude Desrosiers, this film is a satirical comedy about financial scandals seen through the eyes of a corrupt man, Bernard Bossé. The film will be scripted by André Ducharme, Luc Déry and Yves Lapierre. The film is produced by Les productions Équinoxe and will be distributed by Alliance Atlantis.
Décharge: A criminal who found redemption randomly meets a prostitute. However, the meeting, brings back in the criminal things from his past. Written by Benoît Pilon and Pierre Szalowski. Directed by Benoît Pilon (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre). Produced by Forum Films and distributed by Remstar Distribution.
- 11/28/2009
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
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