The Co-production Podcast - Episode 03
03/05/2021 - The producers of Philippe Lacôte s
The Night of the Kings are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their film, which has received Eurimages support
The Night of the Kings by Philippe Lacôte
The Co-production Podcast is a collaboration between Cineuropa and Eurimages. Each episode welcomes producers to share best practices and to inspire new industry-wide collaborations in Europe and beyond.
In the third episode of the Co-production Podcast, Cineuropa’s editor-in-chief,
Domenico La Porta, and co-producers
Philippe Lacôte (Wassakara Productions, Ivory Coast),
Delphine Jaquet (Banshee Films, France), and
The Co-production Podcast - Episode 03
03/05/2021 - The producers of Philippe Lacôte s
The Night of the Kings are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their film, which has received Eurimages support
The Night of the Kings by Philippe Lacôte
The Co-production Podcast is a collaboration between Cineuropa and Eurimages. Each episode welcomes producers to share best practices and to inspire new industry-wide collaborations in Europe and beyond.
In the third episode of the Co-production Podcast, Cineuropa’s editor-in-chief,
Domenico La Porta, and co-producers
Philippe Lacôte (Wassakara Productions, Ivory Coast),
Delphine Jaquet (Banshee Films, France), and
The producers of Philippe Lacôte s
The Night of the Kings are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their film, which has received Eurimages support
The Night of the Kings by Philippe Lacôte
The Co-production Podcast is a collaboration between Cineuropa and Eurimages. Each episode welcomes producers to share best practices and to inspire new industry-wide collaborations in Europe and beyond.
In the third episode of the Co-production Podcast, Cineuropa’s editor-in-chief,
Domenico La Porta, and co-producers
Philippe Lacôte (Wassakara Productions, Ivory Coast),
Delphine Jaquet (Banshee Films, France), and
Yanick Letourneau (Peripheria, Canada) discuss the production of
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It took Scheherazade 1,001 nights to weave her web and ultimately save her skin. No comparable level of stamina is demanded of the plucky young fantasist in “Night of the Kings,” though that doesn’t make his task any more enviable. Not long after being thrown into Ivory Coast’s notorious La Maca penitentiary, he is given the name “Roman,” or storyteller, and made to regale his fellow prisoners with tales of wonder over one fateful evening. It’s a ritual intended to maintain order yet destined to end in bloodshed, though who will live and who will die remains, much like the ending of Roman’s own improvised yarn, an intriguingly open question.
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Night of the Kings, written and directed by Philippe Lacôte, follows an unnamed protagonist (Koné Bakary) into Ivory Coast’s infamous MACA prison where he’s anointed the institutions “Roman” by the reigning inmate king, Blackbeard (Steve Tientcheu). Now, it’s up to him to tell a story because his life quite literally depends on it. With the help of some brilliant cinematography by Tobie Marier-Robitaille, editing by Aube Foglia, and production design by Samuel Teisseire, Lacôte highlights the power of storytelling and how necessary it is for us to harness it in order to infuse magic into the otherwise mundane finiteness of it all.