Marie Amachoukeli is shooting Ama Gloria
- The co-director of Cannes’ Caméra d’Or winner Party Girl is filming her first solo feature film, produced by Lilies Films and sold by Pyramide
Her two co-director sidekicks from Party Girl [+see also:
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Written by the director (who also co-wrote Litigante [+see also:
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Ama Gloria is produced by Bénédicte Couvreur on behalf of Lilies Films (the long-time partner of Céline Sciamma). The film has notably been pre-purchased by Canal+, Ciné+and France 5 Monde, and enjoys support from the CNC in the form of an advance on receipts, as well as from the Ile-de-France region and the Sofica Cinécap and Arte Cofinova. Photography comes courtesy of Inès Tabarin (first assistant camerawoman on Annette [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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