T th PRESENTATION OF THE 11 EDITION PARTNERS Angers Workshops receive support from With the support of Angers Workshops would like to thank Andégave communication Bouvet Ladubay Bureau d’Accueil des Tournages (Agence régionale) Centre de Ressources Audiovisuelles (Ville d’Angers) Cinéma Parlant Espé d’Angers – Université de Nantes Fondation Gan pour le Cinéma Hexa Repro Hôtel Mercure Angers Centre Institut français d’Alger Médiathèque de la Roseraie AnCRE (mission de l’agence Angers Loire Développement) Muséum des Sciences Naturelles d’Angers Panavision Alga Université Angevine du Temps Libre Centre de ressources audiovisuelles (Université catholique de l'ouest) Angers Workshops | 11th edition | August 23-29, 2015 2 PRESENTATION OF THE 11th EDITION 2014 residents with Delphine Gleize and Claude-Éric Poiroux 2013 residents with Olivier Ducastel, Claude-Éric Poiroux, Arnaud Gourmelen and Thibaut Bracq Created in 2005, the Angers Workshops are directed toward young European filmmakers with one or two short films to their credit and a first feature film in the works. During 5 days, they will be taught by recognized professionals from the world of cinema. This year, the focus will be on production, directing and actors. The Workshops will offer them: . Screenings and analyses of film from the past and present. Training with established filmmakers and technicians who will bring to the classroom their professional experience and methods. Development of their personal projects under the guidance of the attending instructors, with emphasis on specific questions concerning directing, working with actors, production... The 11th edition of the Angers Workshops will welcome 8 young European directors and 1 scriptwriter from 6 countries: Emma Benestan (France), Wouter Bouvijn and the scriptwriter Wouter Van Haver (Belgium), Hubert Charuel (France), Basile Doganis (Greece / France), Marie Monge (France), Karim Moussaoui (Algeria / France), Antoine Russbach (Switzerland) and Carla Simón (Spain). The director, scriptwriter and actor Faouzi Bensaïdi (Mille mois, WWW : What a Wonderful World, Death for Sale) will run the workshops, accompanied by professionals from the world of film, including the directors Lionel Baier (Les Grandes Ondes (à l’ouest), La Vanité), Radu Muntean (Tuesday, After Christmas, One Floor Below), screenwriter Razvan Radulescu (Tuesday, After Christmas, One Floor Below, Child’s Pose), producers Joseph Rouschop (Tarantula Belgium) and Alan R. Milligan (Film Farms Production – Norway). The residents will be invited to come back in Angers in January 2016 during the 28th edition of the European First Film Festival. This new appointment will give them the opportunity to work on the development of their project, to meet professionals about financial support and production of their movie and to participate on the screenings and events of the Festival. Angers Workshops | 11th edition | August 23-29, 2015 3 RESIDENTS The 11th edition of the Angers Workshops will welcome 8 young European directors and 1 scriptwriter from Algeria, Belgium, France, Greece, Spain and Switzerland. EMMA BENESTAN FRANCE PROJECT: PETITE SAUVAGE ! Born in Montpellier, Emma Benestan spent her childhood and her teenage years in the South of France. She went to La fémis, in the editing department. She then studied anthropology at Paris 8 University. She's also been running workshops with teenagers, in the South of France and in the Parisian suburb, being especially involved this year with the French association "Mille Visages". In 2015 and for a couple of months, she participated in an artist-in-residence program, working around the dream. These workshops nourished her writing. Her movies deal with the question of immigration, of dual culture and social relationships, especially during the delicate teenage years. She directed two short films: Touch the Horizon, and Beautiful Mouth, both selected at the Angers First Film Festival. Petite Sauvage! is produced by Apaches Films. SYNOPSIS Kenza, a fifteen-year old girl, leaves Algeria for France, to live with Samy, her father she never got to know. She thinks she'll finally meet this father again, a former footballer she glorified so much. It's finally the beginning of a new life. A new country. But is it really the promise of happiness? WOUTER BOUVIJN AND WOUTER VAN HAVER BELGIUM PROJECT: (V)LUCHT Wouter Bouvijn (born in 1987, Ghent Belgium) graduated from the Rits film school in Brussels in 2012 with great honors. Tweesprong (Crossroads) was his graduation short film that have won several international awards, among the Grand Jury Price at the Premiers Plans Film Festival in 2013. Next to writing and directing he is also active as an editor. He was the editor of the documentary Miles Away by Daniel Dumitrescu, Bram Mervillie and photographer Titus Simoens and he’s doing all kinds of video work such as music videos, commercials, etc... He shot television documentaries as well and directed this year two episodes of the popular Flemish television series Vermist, a fictional series about the missing persons unit of the Belgian federal police. He is currently writing his first feature film (V)Lucht based on true events together with the screenwriter Wouter Van Haver. (V)Lucht is produced by Eyeworks NV (Belgium). Wouter Van Haver graduated as Master in audiovisual arts from the Rits film school in Brussels in 2009. After his studies he teamed up with director Jonas Baeckeland for the short movie La Proie (The Prey), which was shown on L.A. Shorts Fest and Raindance. In 2011 his idea for a feature film De Bende van de Vosse (The Gang of Vosse) was selected by the Flemish Film Fund VAF for their screenplay workshop. In 2012 he earned his place in the writer’s room of the tv- drama De Ridder for public broadcaster VRT, about a young Belgian prosecutor. He recently worked on two scripts for short animated films, De Droom van de Steenhouwer (The Stone Cutter’s Dream) and Een Knotsgekke Fabel (An Incredible Fable) for the Ghentian animation studio De Doos… Producties, while script doctoring a third: De Wind in het Riet (The Wind in the Reed). He is currently developing the feature film screenplay (V)lucht (Flight), with director Wouter Bouvijn. SYNOPSIS Vincent (17) is part of a triplet and grew up in the shadow of his two terminally ill sisters. While the disease literally cuts their breath away, she also takes Vincent's right to a normal life. Angers Workshops | 11th edition | August 23-29, 2015 4 RESIDENTS HUBERT CHARUEL FRANCE PROJECT: BLOODY MILK Born in 1985, Hubert Charuel grew up on a dairy farm. After stumbling into literature studies he was passed the entrance exams for La fémis, graduating in production in 2011. His graduation film, Diagonale du vide, was selected for several festivals. His first short film, K-Nada, was awarded this year in Angers. He is currently developing his first feature. Bloody Milk is produced by Domino Films. SYNOPSIS Pierre, thirties, is a farmer. His whole life revolves around his farm, his cows, his sister Pascale, a vet, and his retired parents. Pierre lives alone, but when one is surrounded by 30 cows, one is never truly alone. Especially because the cows are all Pierre's life. He has never known anything else and that's just fine. While the first case of a bovine epizootic disease appears in France, Pierre discovers that one of his cows is potentially infected. He panics and decides to kill her and burn her body to hide during the health inspection. Pascale, presented with a fait accompli begrudgingly agrees to cover it, provided that, if another event occurs, he denounced to the authorities. Pierre agrees ... but he cannot bring himself to lose his farm. He has nothing else and it will go to the end to keep it. BASILE DOGANIS GREECE / FRANCE PROJECT: 14 JUILLET After studying philosophy Basile Doganis made a documentary on Japan (Kami Hito E – On The Edge (2008)) and worked as first assistant director for Jean-Pierre Limosin on his film Young Yakuza (Cannes 2007). He was for a time a script doctor for Celluloid Dreams and wrote the screenplay of his first fiction feature, Entre les lignes, which was selected for the Talent Project Market of the 2010 Berlinale 2010. He won the Script Development Fund from the Amiens Film Festival in the same year. After a residency at the Binger Filmlab in 2011, he wrote and directed a fiction short, Le Gardien de son frère (2011), followed by a second in 2014, Journée d’appel, both selected in Angers. 14 juillet is produced by Elzévir Films. SYNOPSIS Two neighboring projects in a Parisian suburb, two rival gangs, and a thwarted love which threatens to destroy the warlike brotherhood of young gang members and their vengeful spirit. MARIE MONGE FRANCE PROJECT: LES JOUEURS Marie Monge was born in Paris, in 1987. She graduated in cinema studies at La Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris. Along with other fellow students and young artists, she founded Novocaine in 2006, a creative collective through which she wrote and directed two short films: Les Ombres bossues (2008) and Mia (2009). Her subsequent film, Marseille la nuit, a medium- length film produced by 10 :15 productions, got nominated in many festivals in France as well as Belgium, and competed for the best short film at 2014 César. One of the two lead roles, Karim Leklou, was awarded twice as best actor, notably in Angers. She is currently writing and developing her first feature, Les Joueurs (The Lucky Ones), produced by The Film. SYNOPSIS There’s nothing Ella wouldn’t do to win Abel’s love and attention. But Abel is a compulsive gambler, and when money runs out, he disappears… Angers Workshops | 11th edition | August 23-29, 2015 5 RESIDENTS KARIM MOUSSAOUI ALGERIA / FRANCE PROJECT: EN ATTENDANT LES HIRONDELLES Born in 1975, Karim Moussaoui is an active member in one of Algeria most important independent film associations, Chrysalide, an Algerian cultural association created in 2000 to promote films.