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FUNDING France

Ile de France grants €2.8m for eight films

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The Ile de France region is expected to confirm today its allocation of €2.78m to new projects, including seven features, at its second support fund session of 2007.

Projects to be granted funding include Intrusions, the new film by Emmanuel Bourdieu (2006 Critics' Week Grand Prize at Cannes for Poison Friends [+see also:
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), which will receive €418,000. The €2.8m Arcapix production will shoot for 40 days starting from July 16 and star Natacha Régnier, Amira Casar, Denis Podalydès and Malik Zidi.

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Two films on adolescence funded by CNC advances on receipts have also been selected by the Ile-de-France region. Sylvie Verheyde's Stella (a €3.3m Les Films du Veyrier production) was granted €384,000. The film by the 2006 Grand Prize winner for Best Screenplay (see the article) has also been backed by a co-production and pre-sales from Arte France Cinéma.

Meanwhile, Laurent Cantet's Entre les murs (a €2.4m Haut et Court production, see news) will receive €384,000 for its 37-day shoot starting July 2.

The Ile de France has granted €418,000 to scriptwriter Pierre Schoeller's directorial debut Versailles (a €3.4m Les Films Pelléas production). The film, which will also be backed by CNC advances on receipts, tells the story of a woman in her twenties who works in temporary jobs and lives in fear that her four year-old son will be taken away from her.

The Ile de France support fund will provide backing to the tune of €314,000 to Yuki et Nina by directors Nobuhiro Suwa and Hippolyte Giradot, whose 25-day shoot of the €1.8m Comme des cinémas production is due to start in August.

The region also granted €488,000 to Musée haut, musée bas by Jean-Michel Ribes (a €8.5m Epithète Films production), featuring Gérard Jugnot, Fabrice Luchini, Nathalie Baye and Isabelle Carré. The film's 50-day shoot will begin in September.

Lastly, €300,000 went to René Féret’s Une étoile dans la nuit (lit. "A Star in the Night"), a €1.4m Les Films Alyne production starring Salomé Stévenin.

Simone Bitton's documentary Rachel, produced by Ciné Sud Promotion, will be funded €80,000 of its €1m budget. The film is also backed by CNC advances on receipts. The French majority co-production (64%) with Belgium, Switzerland, the US and Canada will carry out an investigation into the death of young US pacifist Rachel Corrie, run over by a bulldozer on the Gaza Strip in March 2003.

Regional support given to Olivier Assayas' €419,000-budget Souvenirs de Valois ("Memories of Valois") and Marion Lainé's €320,000-budget Un coeur simple (lit. "A Simple Heart") have changed financiers. Assayas' film – previously financed by Margo films – will now be backed by MK2 and Lainé's film – previously funded by BC Films – will now be backed by Rezo Production.

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(Translated from French)

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