Cannes: Fifteen projects selected for the Atelier
- Spanish director Marc Recha, Romania’s Bogdan Mirica, Bosnia’s Igor Drljaca and French filmmaker Mikhaël Hers are representing Europe
A total of 15 feature-film projects from 15 countries have been selected for the 10th edition of the Cinéfondation Atelier, which is set to take place as part of the 67th Cannes Film Festival (14-25 May 2014). Among the projects chosen are Ruta salvatge by Spanish director Marc Recha (who was also selected in competition at Cannes in 2001 with Pau and His Brother, and at Locarno in 1998 and 2006), Ce sentiment de l'été [+see also:
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interview: Mikhaël Hers
film profile] by France’s Mikhaël Hers (produced by Nord-Ouest Films, already being backed by Arte France Cinéma and by the CNC’s advance on receipts, and starring Norwegian actor Anders Danielsen Lie), Dogs [+see also:
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interview: Bogdan Mirica
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The other titles selected for the 2014 Atelier are Territoria by Armenian director Nora Martirosyan, Alyushka by Kazakh filmmaker Adilkhan Yerzhanov, Invisible [+see also:
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film profile] by Argentina’s Pablo Giorgelli (who won the Caméra d'Or at Cannes in 2011 with Las Acacias [+see also:
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interview: Pedro Hernández
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film profile] by Mexican director Daniel Castro Zimbron, In the Shade of the Trees by Chile’s Matias Rojas Valencia, Ville-Marie by Canadian filmmaker Guy Edoin, White Sun [+see also:
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film profile] by Deepak Rauniyar (Nepal), A Yellow Bird by K. Rajagopal (Singapore) and Oil on Water by Newton I. Aduaka (Nigeria).
Established in 2005 with the aim of encouraging creative cinema and fostering the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers by helping them to round off the funding of their films, the Atelier has been of benefit for the past nine years to 141 projects, of which 85 have already been released and 44 are currently in pre-production. It will enable the films selected for 2014 to be present on the Croisette with their producers from 16-22 May and to meet professionals interested in their projects during individual sessions. The Project Book and sign-up sheets will be available at the beginning of April on the Cinéfondation website.
(Translated from French)
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