01/12/2006

At the fourth and last session of 2006, the Ile de France production support fund has provided support worth €3.58m to eight projects for film and television. Funding of €2.689m has been allocated to six features and two documentaries, representing a total budget of more than €40m.

Les Femmes de l'ombre (lit. “Undercover Women”) – a thriller set during the occupation by Jean-Paul Salomé (a La Chauve Souris production, see news) – received €495,000 of its estimated €19.4m budget, while Orsay by Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao Hsien (Margo films, see article), starring Juliette Binoche, was granted €390,000 of its €2.6m budget.

Other feature projects selected include La clef (lit. “The Key”) by Guillaume Nicloux (Les Films de la Suane, see news), which has received €495,000 of its €8.8m budget, and Un baiser s’il vous plait (lit. “A Kiss Please”) by Emmanuel Mouret (Moby Dick Films, see news), which has been allocated €318,000.

Meanwhile, Séraphine by Martin Provost – winner of the 2006 Grand Prize for Best Scriptwriter (TS Productions, see article) – has been granted €458,000 of its €3.8m budget, while Sous les toits de Paris (lit. “Under the Roofs of Paris”) by Hiner Saleem (Agat Films & Cie) has been allocated €390,000 of its €2.4m budget.

Six of the projects backed by the Ile de France and three scripts – by Mouret, Provost and Hiner Saleem – have already received advances in receipts from the Centre National de la Cinématographie.

Meanwhile, cinema documentaries Le coeur de Mafrouza by Emmanuelle Demoris (Les Films de la villa) and Au coeur de la folie by Roshane Saidnattar (Morgane Production) have each received €72,000.

The Ile de France region has also decided to support the production of eight television films, four features and four documentaries, with a grand total of €890,000, and has also granted €192,000 to nine films for both cinema and television as part of its new post-production support fund.

(Translated from French)