24/07/2017 - The CNC will support the upcoming film by Fabienne Berthaud, along with those of Rithy Pahn, Boris Lojkine, Jeanne Herry, Gustave Kervern and Benoît Delépine

Six projects were chosen at the third 2017 session of the second college for advances on receipts of the CNC. Among them are A Bigger World [+see also:
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film profile]. The film is being produced by Carole Scotta for Haut et Court and Christine Palluel for 3x7 Productions.

Another female director is also being supported by the CNC: Jeanne Herry with Pupille [+see also:
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Another second feature that has been chosen for an advance on receipts is Camille [+see also:
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Another advance on receipts will go to Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot, a fictional feature film project by Rithy Panh, co-written by Pierre-Erwan Guillaume and based on the book When the War Was Over by Elizabeth Becker. Widely known for his documentaries (most notably S-21 : The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers, Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell [+see also:
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film profile], shown at Rome in 2008). The plot for his latest film centres around an American journalist who was invited in 1978 to interview the mysterious dictator Pol Pot. She is accompanied by a French left-wing academic and a British photo reporter, but during their journey into the jaws of hell in Cambodia, horror lies in ambush. The film will be produced by Siècle Productions.

Produced byNo Money Production and JD Prod, I Feel Good [+see also:
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The first college, for its part, selected five debut feature film projects : Sofia [+see also:
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interview: Meryem Benm'Barek
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film profile] by Sarah Suco (co-written by Nicolas Silhol and produced by Mon Voisin Productions), Intime conviction [+see also:
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interview: Artemio Benki
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(Translated from French)