The folks at Sodec (Société de Développement des Entreprises Culturelles) the Quebec government agency that promotes culture an hands out some major coin have given some funds to eight co-productions and seven productions in post with notable items in Xavier Legrand‘s sophomore feature Le successeur (with thesp Marc-André Grondin), Canuck filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz‘s Opus 28 and Denis Côté‘s (now fifteen feature) Mademoiselle Kenopsia with actress Larissa Corriveau toplining. Here is the complete list of projects below:
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- 3/13/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Venice’s industry head is predicting a return to pre-pandemic attendance levels.
Industry delegates will be back in Venice in significantly higher numbers than during the Covid-affected editions of 2020 and 2021.
“We have more distributors, more producers and, of course, far more immersive professionals,” Pascal Diot, head of Venice Production Bridge (Vpb), says of the 11th edition of the festival’s industry event (running September 1-6). He is predicting that around 2,700 accredited industry representatives will be on the Lido, roughly the same number as in 2019, the last event held pre-pandemic.
Diot also says many of these guests are intending to “stay...
Industry delegates will be back in Venice in significantly higher numbers than during the Covid-affected editions of 2020 and 2021.
“We have more distributors, more producers and, of course, far more immersive professionals,” Pascal Diot, head of Venice Production Bridge (Vpb), says of the 11th edition of the festival’s industry event (running September 1-6). He is predicting that around 2,700 accredited industry representatives will be on the Lido, roughly the same number as in 2019, the last event held pre-pandemic.
Diot also says many of these guests are intending to “stay...
- 8/30/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
International projects already have at least 70 of funding in place.
The Venice Film Festival’s Gap-Financing Market has selected 33 international feature and documentary projects for its ninth edition this year, which runs from September 2-4.
The international projects nearing completion will have the chance to close their financing through one-to-one meetings at the Market, which is part of the Venice Production Bridge.
Each of the feature and documentary projects has at least 70 of its funding in place.
The countries in focus at this year’s event are France and Taiwan, with a number of projects from each country receiving a special invite to the Market.
The Venice Film Festival’s Gap-Financing Market has selected 33 international feature and documentary projects for its ninth edition this year, which runs from September 2-4.
The international projects nearing completion will have the chance to close their financing through one-to-one meetings at the Market, which is part of the Venice Production Bridge.
Each of the feature and documentary projects has at least 70 of its funding in place.
The countries in focus at this year’s event are France and Taiwan, with a number of projects from each country receiving a special invite to the Market.
- 7/1/2022
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Film and immersive video projects from Taiwan and France will be put in the spotlight at the Venice Gap-Financing Market, a project support event that is part of the Venice Production Bridge and the Venice International Film Festival.
The three-day market will present a huge 63 projects from around the world in the final stages of development and funding, setting up one-to-one meetings and giving them the opportunity to close their international financing.
The selected projects include: 33 feature-length fiction film and documentary projects, 16 immersive projects; 11 Biennale College Cinema – Virtual Reality projects; and 3 Biennale College Cinema projects.
The market will operate as an in-person event Sept. 2-4, 2022, while the festival runs Aug. 31-Sept. 10, 2022.
Among the highlight films from the featured territories are: “Be With Me,” a fiction film project by Taiwan’s Hwarng Wern Ying; “Tales of Taipei,” a fiction film with multiple directors; and “Who’ll Stop The Rain,” by Su I-Hsuan.
The three-day market will present a huge 63 projects from around the world in the final stages of development and funding, setting up one-to-one meetings and giving them the opportunity to close their international financing.
The selected projects include: 33 feature-length fiction film and documentary projects, 16 immersive projects; 11 Biennale College Cinema – Virtual Reality projects; and 3 Biennale College Cinema projects.
The market will operate as an in-person event Sept. 2-4, 2022, while the festival runs Aug. 31-Sept. 10, 2022.
Among the highlight films from the featured territories are: “Be With Me,” a fiction film project by Taiwan’s Hwarng Wern Ying; “Tales of Taipei,” a fiction film with multiple directors; and “Who’ll Stop The Rain,” by Su I-Hsuan.
- 6/30/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Taking a fairly unknown true-crime story from the 1970s and turning it into a run-of-the-mill retro caper flick, Les Gang des Antillais (The Antillais Gang) depicts the travails of France’s seldom-filmed West Indian population, following a group of men who turned to armed robbery as a means to combat poverty and fight back against a nation that betrayed them. Adapted from Loic Lery’s autobiographical account by director Jean-Claude Barny (Neg Maron), this ambitious but flawed historical thriller has a few good tidbits and lots of predictable or otherwise poorly conceived moments, resulting in an initially promising piece of Gallic blaxploitation...
- 1/5/2017
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
An Unflinching Look at 1970s Disillusioned France via Four Caribbean Men, in 'Le Gang des Antillais'
Currently on its final leg of filming in Guadeloupe, after a month in France, is the upcoming crime drama "Le Gang des Antillais" (lit. "Gang of West Indians") by director Jean-Claude Barny, which is described as "a highly original project" which tells the story of "four West Indians who arrive in mainland France in the 1970s and soon fall into a life of crime... an uncompromising nose-dive into the disillusioned France of the 1970s." Synopsis: Jimmy Larivière is struggling to make ends meet, support his daughter and find his place in society. Meeting the Gang des Antillais, a group of idealist crooks,...
- 11/2/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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