19/01/2023 - Eve Duchemin takes an intense yet subtle approach to depict the impossibility of three prisoners allowing themselves to enjoy life while on leave
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Annabella Nezri ⢠Producer, Kwassa Films I love putting different talents together and facilitating synergies
We met with
Annabella Nezri, the producer and CEO of Kwassa Films who is based in Brussels and whom we notably have to thank for
Florence Hainaut and
salepute, which was broadcast on RTBF and Arte, and, last but not least,
Eve Ducheminâs first feature film Temps Mort (news), on which filming has only just wrapped. Nezri has been selected as one of the EFPâs Producers on the Move for 2021.
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Cineuropa: Why and how did you become a producer?
Florence Hainaut and
salepute, which was broadcast on RTBF and Arte, and, last but not least,
Eve Ducheminâs first feature film Temps Mort (news), on which filming has only just wrapped. Nezri has been selected as one of the EFPâs Producers on the Move for 2021.
(The article continues below - Commercial information)
Cineuropa: Why and how did you become a producer?
Annabella Nezri: Iâd always been passionate about film, but I didnât know the sector at all. I started out as an intern; it was so exhilarating being at the heart of the filmmaking process: the development phase, the sets, human relations, and then bringing the film to life⦠It was what I wanted to do! I love putting different talents together and facilitating synergies. The reason I created Kwassa Films was to make films I liked, obviously, but also to find new audiences; to make genre films, comedies, family films⦠Itâs exciting producing different things and having to win over
Actors Karim Leklou and Issaka Sawadogo
After winning the Magritte award for Best Documentary in 2017 for
En bataille, portrait d’une directrice de prison,
Eve Duchemin is about to start filming her first fiction feature,
Time Out (original title:
En bataille.
According to the filmmaker, after three years spent exploring the Liancourt jail, I couldn’t leave this prison world before honouring the inmates. Equipped with their stories, and with a certain desire to thumb by nose at what I’d done before, I wanted this time to film them as they left the prison. To see them finally get through this big and heavy metal door, the time of a temporary leave.”