At the end of June, Belgian regional investment fund Wallimage held its 105^th support session, during which ten projects were selected, receiving a total sum of €1,691,000.

Among the projects receiving support is season 2 of The Smurfs. Truly the pride of Belgium, these tiny blue chaps created by Pierre “Peyo” Culliford in 1958 are starring in a new adaptation for the small screen – more precisely, a string of 11-minute episodes intended for the youngest audiences. Season 1, which was released in October 2020, scored insanely high TV ratings in France after being aired on TF1. The company in charge of producing this new generation of The Smurfs is Dreamwall.

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Wallimage is also throwing its weight behind the new feature by Sam Garbarski (Irina Palm [+leggi anche:
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Also of note is the support being lent to the documentary mini-series Heysel, Bloc Z, a genre that’s currently all the rage following the success of this highly specific format on Netflix. This opus will be helmed by Jan Verheyen, the director of several Flemish "blockbusters" (FC de Kampioenen 2 [+leggi anche:
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Finally, Wallimage will also be backing Bernard Bellefroid’s documentary Une des mille collines [+leggi anche:
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