18/10/2021 - The Brussels regional investment fund has released over €1.75 million to support 20 projects, including 8 feature films and 5 TV series

Directors Mary Jimenez and Bénédicte Liénard, whose new project Fuga has been selected

screen.brussels, the Brussels regional investment fund, is supporting 20 new projects with more than €1.75 million to boost the Brussels audiovisual sector.

Among the projects supported is the new film by the duo Bénédicte Liénard and Mary Jimenez. After the moving By the Name of Tania [+see also:
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Another Belgian film supported is Delphine Girard's first feature film, Quitter la nuit [+see also:
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Also noteworthy is the selection by the fund of Sauver Mozart, which marks the return of filmmaker Gérard Corbiau (The King is Dancing, Farinelli), produced by Saga Film (Belgium), Deal Productions (Luxembourg) and Film-Line Production (Germany) (read the news), as well as Jérôme Wandewattyne's The Belgian Wave [+see also:
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Projects by non-Belgian directors were also selected, such as The Beast in the Jungle [+see also:
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film profile], Brothers of the Night [+see also:
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Finally, it should be noted that the fund supports 3 Belgian series (season 3 of Ennemi Public, produced by Entre chien et loup and RTBF, the series Attraction, written by crime writer Barbara Abel and produced by Des Gens and RTBF, as well as the Flemish series Roomies by Kato De Boeck and Flo Van Deuren, produced by De Wereldvrede), a Swedish series (Stockholm Requiem - Hostage) and a French series (the Canal+ Original Creation Marie-Antoinette), 3 documentaries (directed by Louisiana Mees, François Gonce and the quartet of Zaïde Bil, Sam Peeters, Heleen Declercq and Ischa Clissen respectively) and 2 animated films.

(Translated from French by Manuela Lazic)