09/01/2023 - Saabo Balde, Jonathan Couzinié, Aurélia Petit and Philippe Frécon are also starring in the cast of Stéphane Marchetti’s debut feature, steered by Blue Monday Productions and sold by Be For Films
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Written by the director, the script is set in the late 1980s. A woman arrives from Africa and moves to the Paris banlieue with her two sons. From this move to the present day, the film will chart the construction and the deconstruction of an ordinary family…
Produced by
Bertrand Gore and
Nathalie Mesuret),
Un petit frère is co-produced by France 3 Cinéma. Pre-bought by France 3, Canal+ and Ciné+, the feature is also supported by the CNC via its advance on receipts and its Images de la diversité fund, by the Île-de-France and Normandy regions (which had also given the project rewriting support), the Gan Foundation Gan for Cinema, and the Soficas Palatine and Cofinova. For the record, the project also benefited from writing support from Ciclic ( Centre-Val de Loire region).
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Written by the director, the script is set in the late 1980s. A woman arrives from Africa and moves to the Paris banlieue with her two sons. From this move to the present day, the film will chart the construction and the deconstruction of an ordinary family…
Produced by
Bertrand Gore and
Nathalie Mesuret),
Un petit frère is co-produced by France 3 Cinéma. Pre-bought by France 3, Canal+ and Ciné+, the feature is also supported by the CNC via its advance on receipts and its Images de la diversité fund, by the Île-de-France and Normandy regions (which had also given the project rewriting support), the Gan Foundation Gan for Cinema, and the Soficas Palatine and Cofinova. For the record, the project also benefited from writing support from Ciclic ( Centre-Val de Loire region).
Five promising young filmmakers taking part in Emergence
(l-r) Directors Sarah Arnold, Léa Todorov Karim Bensalah, Martin Drouot and Stéphane Marchetti
Selected by a jury that was chaired this year by
Alice Winocour (supported by a number of others, including
Anaïs Demoustier), five young filmmakers have been picked for the 23
rd session of the Emergence directing residency. This scheme, which is the only one of its kind in Europe, will offer them the chance to shoot two scenes from their debut features in March, with the patronage of an established director, artistic support and professional production facilities.