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FUNDING Belgium

Wallimage/Bruxellimage selects eclectic trio

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This year, Wallimage is celebrating its tenth anniversary, and the first year of its new funding line Wallimage/Bruxellimage, which is open to Brussels-based audiovisual professionals. This investment fund aims to encourage the development of the audiovisual sector in Wallonia, by supporting companies as well as production.

The fund is thus open to foreign co-productions whose shoot or post-production takes place in Wallonia, regardless of their Walloon “rootedness” on screen. The investment line earmarked for Wallonia has a budget of €3.5m per year, and the Wallimage/Bruxellimage line has €2m per year.

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The three projects selected at Wallimage/Bruxellimage’s fifth session fully reflect the diversity of the projects supported. On the one hand is Madonna’s Pig, the eagerly-awaited new film by Frank Van Passel, who rose to success with television series The Emperor of Taste, which was popular both in Flanders and Wallonia. Produced by Caviar, and co-produced by Climax, the film has already received backing from the VAF and the French Community Film and Audiovisual Centre.

There’s a more “French” project with Stéphane Cazes’s debut feature Le Sens de Nos Peines (“The Meaning of Our Suffering”). The film, produced by Arsam and Bibona Films for France, and Entre Chien et Loup for Belgium, stars Mélanie Thierry as a young mother-to-be who is plunged into the prison world. Shooting will start in early November, between Toulouse and Belgium.

Finally, the session also selected The Bag of Flour, the debut feature by casting director Khadija Leclère, who came to attention with her short film Sarah. The Bag of Flour centres on the unusual life of a little Belgian girl of Moroccan roots who is “exiled” by her father in her country of origin from her earliest childhood. No fewer than five co-producers, led by Compagnie Cinématographique Européenne (Wallonia), have joined forces to bring this project about (including Flanders’s Eyeworks, France’s Tchin Tchin Prod, Switzerland’s Tip Images Productions and Morocco’s Sahara Productions).

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(Translated from French)

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