ANGERS WORKSHOPS
4-11 July 2010 6th edition
2009 participants with Jeanne Moreau, Sandrine Veysset and Claude-Eric Poiroux
Artistic director : Jeanne Moreau
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CONTACTS Premiers Plans Association
President : Gérard Pilet Artistic director : Jeanne Moreau General Delegate : Claude-Eric Poiroux Coordination / Arnaud Gourmelen +33 1 42 71 83 29 - Liza Narboni +33 1 42 71 11 62 [email protected] www.premiersplans.org
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PRESENTATION
The 6th edition of the Angers Workshops will welcome from the 4th to the 11th of July, 9 young filmmakers from 5 European countries: France, Italy, Scotland, and Slovenia. Jeanne Moreau, who founded the Ateliers with Claude-Eric Poiroux, will be running them, as she has done every year, along with cinema professionals, including directors Olivier Ducastel (Jeanne et le garçon formidable, L’Arbre et la forêt…), Raphaël Nadjari (The Shade, Avanim…), Olivier Assayas (Clean, L’Heure d’été…)…
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 8 days, they will be taught by recognised professionals from the world of cinema. This year, the focus will be on staging, blocking out, working with actors, and sound.
The Workshops will offer them:
Screenings and analyses of film classics 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, sound, working with actors...
The Workshops focus on four activities:
SCREENINGS Each day will begin with the screening of a film classic chosen and presented by a different guest instructor. These screenings take place at Les 400 coups Cinemas.
MASTERCLASS The attending instructors will talk about their professional experience and will get into details about a specific aspect of their filmography.
ONE ON ONE SESSIONS The young directors will work on their own projects throughout the week under the guidance of Jeanne Moreau and can also call on the expertise of the professionals who will also be there.
LAB WORKS Each young filmmaker will be asked to make a “video postal card”; to be screened at the end of the Workshops.
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PARTICIPANTS
ITALY
Francesco COSTABILE PROJECT: FUOCO ALL’ANIMA
Francesco Costabile was born in Calabria (Italy) in 1980. After graduating in directing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, he made several short films and documentaries, including La sua Gamba (2002) and L’Armadio (2005). In 2004, along with other directors, he took part in the Gabbiani project, a feature-length adaptation of Chekov’s The Seagull. His graduation short, Dentro Roma (2005), was selected for several festivals. In 2008, he made L’Abito e il Volto, a documentary on the work of the costume designer Piero Tosi, with interviews, notably, of Claudia Cardinale and Charlotte Rampling. He also worked as an assistant director on TV series, and as a tutor for students at the Palermo Centro Sperimentale. He is currently working with B24 Films on the development of his first feature, Fuoco All’Anima.
Synopsis: “My uncle and Giorgio took me into the hills and said: either you kill us, or we will kill you. They put a revolver in my hand, and laid down stretched out on the grass as if they were asleep. They gave me a watch as a reward, and I had to shoot them…” Ciccio, a 12-year-old boy, tells this strange story. Giorgio and Toni were found dead in an orange grove just outside Giarre, their native village on the slopes of Mount Etna, in Sicily on 31 October 1980. They were holding hands. This drama drove many people to protest in favour of the recognition of homosexual rights in Italy. Fuocco all’anima tells the tragic love story of two men, Enzo and Sebi, inspired by actual events.
SCOTLAND
Scott GRAHAM PROJECT: SHELL
Scott Scott Graham is a Writer-Director from a small fishing town in the North East of Scotland. His first short film (Born To Run 2006), based on his experiences of growing up in the north of Scotland, premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Scott’s second short film (Shell 2007), a roadside movie about a young woman trapped by her life in a remote petrol station, won the UK Film Council Award for Best Film at the London Short Film Festival 2008. In September 2008 Scott attended the Binger Film lab in Amsterdam where he developed Shell into a feature script. Shell is now being financed and is due to go into production late 2010 (Broken Spectre). His third short film Native Son, a Cinema Extreme commission for Film4 and the UK Film Council, received its world premiere in Cannes 2010 as one of seven short films selected for Semaine de la Critique.
Synopsis: Shell lives with her father Pete in their remote Highland petrol station: just the two of them fighting the elements, the entranced passers-by and their impossible love for each other. Her mother got on a passing truck when she was a child and Shell has been trying to replace her ever since. She will be eighteen in the spring. The relationship she has with her dad and the isolation her mother escaped from will make this her last winter at the fuel stop although she does not know it yet.
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PARTICIPANTS
ITALY
Fabio GRASSADONIA / Antonio PIAZZA PROJECT: SALVO
Since 1999 Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza have worked as writers, development consultants and acquisition consultants for Italian production companies. In 2004 they wrote the film Ogni volta che te ne vai, a romantic musical comedy set among the night clubs of the Romagna coast, produced by Fandango. In 2009 they had their debut as directors with the short film Rita, premiered in France at Festival d'Angers Premiers Plans last January winning Prix Arte, selected in many international festivals (Cannes, Rotterdam, Aspen, Edinburg, Los Angeles…), and winning several awards. Rita was shot in the problematic and fascinating Palermo neighborhood of Arenella, the same place where they will soon shoot their first feature film Salvo, produced by Acaba Produzioni and Cristaldi Pictures. The script of Salvo was selected for Berlinale Talent Campus 2008, Binger Filmlab 2009 and awarded a Special Mention by the Jury of the Solinas Prize and a Production Award of TorinoFilmLab.
Synopsis : Salvo is a mafia killer in Palermo. Rita is the sister of another mafioso, she’s twenty and blind from birth. Salvo sneaks in Rita’s house, to kill her brother. There is a fight, a ferocious, hand to hand struggle. Salvo finally manages to kill him, and then goes up to her. Those blind eyes, trembling with rage, staring at him yet unseeing, seem to disturb Salvo. He closes them with his hands covered in blood. When he removes the hands, Rita’s eyes see for the first time. And the first thing they see is Salvo, the man who has just killed her brother. It is a miracle, a moment of impossible, unexpected grace. Obsessed, unable to escape from what has happened, Salvo cannot kill Rita. He ends up segregating her in an industrial warehouse far away in the deserted Sicilian countryside. In this mutual isolation Rita must confront and deal with the gift the killer has given to her. Salvo is somehow forced to see. To see her, another human being. To see himself. Together they get a glimpse of the distant light of freedom. Freedom is dangerous in the world Salvo and Rita have always lived. Salvo must make a choice between Rita and his own life. Rita, herself, must make a choice, between Salvo and getting away. But the choice is impossible, they are bound together. And together they will die.
FRANCE - SWITZERLAND
Hugues HARICHE PROJECT: LA FRONTIERE
Hugues Hariche is Franco-Swiss, and wrote and directed the short film Les Liens du Sang (2003), which was selected for several festivals, won an award in Reus, and was broadcast on Arte. He has also made two other shorts and two documentaries, between France and the US. He is currently working on the production of his first feature, La Frontière, and the development of two other, both of them located in North America, where he lived for several years.
Synopsis: Louis, aged almost 18, is fleeing a war nothing is known about. He is wounded and goes to his father, who lives as a recluse in the mountains with a young mute girl called Lune. Barely recovered, Louis runs away with Lune. He is pursued by his father, and they cross the war-torn country; they go into enemy territory with the hope of finding a better world beyond the Red Mountains. As the young couple gets close to the border, the father catches up with them… PREMIERS PLANS 5
PARTICIPANTS
FRANCE
Vincent MARIETTE PROJECT: CHIENS ERRANTS
Vincent Mariette graduated from the scriptwriting department of La fémis in 2009. Her encounter with Amaury Ovise, Kazak Productions, enabled him to make his first short, Cavalier Seul. He is currently developing Chiens errants, his first feature, which was selected for the latest session of Emergence. He has just made a short film for the Collection Canal+ 2010, Le Meilleur ami de l’homme.
Synopsis: The death of their hated father provides Léon, a failed footballer in the midst of getting divorced, and Bruno, a neurasthenic company boss, with an opportunity to meet again. The cremation takes place in the town they grew up in, which is deserted today. When they are there they meet their half-sister Chloë. All three go off in search of a stash of money their father is reputed to have hidden and which would enable them all to solve their problems. But their journey leads to strange encounters and brings up old ghosts. And then there is Chloë, who may not actually be their sister. And then there is their father, who may not actually be dead.
FRANCE
Natacha SAMUEL PROJECT: JE ME SAUVERAI ET JE NE REVIENDRAI PLUS
Natacha Samuel was born in Paris in 1973. She studied at the Ecole Normale and holds a higher degree in comparative literature. She started in cinema with two documentaries, A l’improviste, in 2000, followed by Pola à 27 ans, which was discovered at the Belfort Film Festival and released in 2003. She continued working in video documentaries with, among others, Autoportrait-robot in 2006, which was shown in museums and art galleries, and Beau que soit ton pays, which follows a contemporary art adventure in Bamako, and is currently in post-production. She made her first fiction film in 2005, J’ai besoin d’air, a medium-length film which was selected for, and won awards in, several festivals, including Locarno, Brive and Pantin, among others. Since 2008 she has been working with Bizbi Productions on her first feature film, Je me sauverai et je ne reviendrai plus, which will be filmed entirely in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso.
Synopsis: After six years absence, Alice returns to Ouagadougou to write a film based on the life of her former lover Mous. He is there, ready to work with her. But not ready to delve back into the trials and tribulations of his twenty years. But by coming back, Alice has touched on a raw nerve: on his past as a “gam gam”, a follower of whites, on his past made of hopes and illusions from which he has fallen – and which, to relive, he has to try to forget every day.
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PARTICIPANTS
SLOVENIA
Martin TURK PROJECT: FEED ME WITH YOUR WORDS
Born in Trieste (Italy) in 1978, Martin Turk was graduated in film direction at the Ljubljana Academy for Film, TV, Radio an Theatre (AGRFT). While studying, he worked as an assistant director on feature films such as No Man's Land by Danis Tanović. His graduating short film The Excursion won several international awards (Montpellier, Bologna, Wiesbaden). His professional debute film A Slice Of Life was selected in many festivals such as Premiers Plans 2007 and won prize for the best Slovenian short film in 2006. His second professional film Every Day Is Not The Same premiered in Cannes 2008 in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs and was screened on more than 30 international film festivals and was awarded at Zagreb IFF and Tehran ISFF. He was selected for the 18th session of the Cannes's Cinefondation Residence with the project Feed Me With Your Words, produced by Bela Film.
Synopsis: Robert travels from the Slovenian countryside to Torino in order to work on his research on Jesus’ handwriting. He disappears after having started to believe that a certain homeless person is Jesus who is returned to Earth before the judgment day. Despite unsolved conflicts from the past between the two of them, Robert’s brother Matej and his father Janez set out to search for him. In the meantime, Matej’s mentally ill mother Irina is entrusted into the care of his wife Ana and their daughter Veronika, who will now meet her grandmother for the first time. The film consists of three complete stories that happen individually and simultaneously. Together, they represent a portrait of the complex relationship within a family.
ITALY
Annarita ZAMBRANO PROJECT: FRAGMENTS D’UN SIECLE EN FUITE
Annarita Zambrano was born in Rome in 1972. She arrived in Paris in 2000 to finalise her doctorate on the aesthetics of cinema. She made 4 short films, which were selected in the most important international festivals: La Troisième fois (ACID selection at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006), Andante Mezzo Forte (Berlin Festival in 2007), A La Lune montante (Mostra del cinema di Venezia 2009) and Tre ore presented at the last Cannes Film Festival in the Directors’ Fortnight. Her first feature, Fragments d’un siècle en fuite, is produced by Sensito Films.
Synopsis: Rome, 18 March 2002. A law professor is murdered as he leaves the university. Bordeaux, a few days later, the life of a successful illustrator and mother is turned upside down. For more than 20 years, Alice Mattei, a former Italian terrorist, has been living in France under an assumed identity. She is guilty of three murders and was sentenced in her country in 1983. She has succeeded in rebuilding her life, without her immediate family knowing her past, including her daughter Clara, aged 16. This new murder awakes a spectre in Italy that is very much alive and forces Alice to confront her different identities: murderer, exile, mother, wife, artist. In a France which is no longer a country of amnesties, a desperate race begins for freedom and survival…
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PARTICIPANTS’ PROGRAMME
Jeanne Moreau leads all the masterclasses and working sessions. She is assisted by the director Olivier Ducastel.
SUNDAY 4th JULY
5.00 pm Screenings of short films made by the residents.
MONDAY 5th JULY
9.30 am Presentation of the residents’ projects to Jeanne Moreau and Olivier Ducastel
2.30 pm Continuation of the projects’ presentation
8.15 pm Public screening of Drôle de Félix (The Adventures of Felix) (95’) by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, co-directors, in the presence of Olivier Ducastel.
TUESDAY 6th JULY
9.30 am Masterclass 1: DIRECTING By Olivier Ducastel, director.
11.00 am Conference on 3D By Jean-Michel Frodon, cinema critic, and Jeanne Guillot, director.
2.30 pm Work on the residents’ projects: one on one meetings with Jeanne Moreau, Olivier Ducastel, Vincent Poymiro and Raphaël Nadjari.
8.15 pm Public screening of a film with Jeanne Moreau (to be announced)
WEDNESDAY 7th JULY
9h30 Screening of Running on empty (115’) by Sydney Lumet Masterclass 2 : THE SCREENPLAY By Vincent Poymiro, scriptwriter.
2.30 pm Work on the residents’ projects: one on one meetings with Jeanne Moreau, Olivier Ducastel, Vincent Poymiro and Raphaël Nadjari.
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PARTICIPANTS’ PROGRAMME
THUSRDAY 8th JULY
9.30 am Screening : (to be announced) Masterclass 3 by Raphaël Nadjari, director.
2.30 pm Work on the residents’ projects: one on one meetings with Jeanne Moreau, Olivier Ducastel, Vincent Poymiro and Raphaël Nadjari.
8.15 pm Public screening of Carlos (165’) by Olivier Assayas, director. In the presence of Olivier Assayas and Luc Barnier, editor.
FRIDAY 9th JULY
9.30 am Masterclass 4 : EDITING By Olivier Assayas, director and Luc Barnier, editor.
2.30 pm Lab work: shooting of the “video postal cards”.
SATURDAY 10th JULY
9.30 am Screening of Der Räuber (The Robber) (96’) by Benjamin Heisenberg Masterclass 5 by Benjamin Heisenberg, director
2.30 pm Lab work: shooting and editing of the “video postal cards”.
9.00 pm Screening of the “video postal cards”.
SUNDAY 11th JULY
10.00 am Screening of L’Arbre et la forêt (Family Tree) (97’) by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau Masterclass 6 : CINEMATOGRAPHY By Matthieu Poirot-Delpech, cinematographer and Olivier Ducastel, director
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INSTRUCTORS
Jeanne MOREAU / Actress – Director
After a theatrical career at the Comédie Française and Théâtre National Populaire, Jeanne Moreau appeared on screen in the 1950s in films such as Hands Off the Loot (1953) by Jacques Becker, before being discovered in Lift to the Scaffold (1956) and The Lovers (1958) by Louis Malle. Her performance in Peter Brook’s Moderato Cantabile (1960), for which she received an award at the Cannes Film Festival, made her famous worldwide, while the song Le Tourbillon sung by the character of Catherine in Truffaut’s Jules and Jim (1961) revealed her as a singer. In 1964, she collaborated again with composer Cyrus Bassiak and recorded the album Peau de banane, which went on to win the Charles Cros Grand Prize. She was Truffaut and Welles’ favorite actress (The Trial in 1962, Falstaff in 1965), but also worked with Demy, Buñuel, Renoir, Losey, Antonioni, Duras and Kazan. In the 1970s, she met with a new generation of directors, like Blier, Téchiné, Wenders, Angelopoulos, and Fassbinder. She then directed two critically acclaimed feature films, Lumiere (1975), and The Adolescent (1979) with Simone Signoret in the leading role. Her career has regularly been celebrated with awards at festivals (the Golden Lion in Venice in 1992, a tribute at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 1998, a Donostia in San Sebastian in 1998, and the Golden Bear in Berlin in 2000). She received the Molière award for her onstage performance in La Servante Zerline (1988), and in 1992 won the Cesar award for best actress in The Old Lady Who Wades in the Sea by Laurent Heynemann. She moves easily from the large to the small screen, particularly for Josée Dayan, with whom she has often worked (Les Parents terribles, Les Rois maudits and Sous les vents de Neptune in 2007). She has continued working with young directors (Edouard Baer, Akoibon) as well as experienced directors such as François Ozon (Le Temps qui reste, 2005), Theo Angelopoulos (Trois minutes, fragment of Chacun son cinéma, presented in Cannes for the 60th anniversary of the festival) and recently Amos Gitaï (Désengagement and Plus tard) and Tsai Ming-Liang (Visage, 2009). In 2008 she played alongside Sami Frey in Heiner Müller’s Quartett at the Théâtre de la Madelaine. In July 2009 she acted in Amos Gitaï’s La Guerre des fils de lumière contre les fils des ténèbres in Avignon and in Istanbul, staged again at the Théâtre de l’Odéon last January.
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INSTRUCTORS
Olivier ASSAYAS / Director
Initially attracted to painting, Olivier Assayas made his first short, Copyright, in 1979. The film comes from post-punk marginality. From 1980 to 1985 he wrote in the Cahiers du Cinéma, made some short films (notably Laissé inachevé à Tokyo en 1982) and worked with André Téchiné on writing the films Rendez-Vous (1984) and Le Lieu du Crime (Scene of the Crime) (1985). His first feature film, Désordre (Disorder) (1986), a portrait of tormented young people in which he already shows his passion for rock music, won an award at the Venice Film Festival. Since then, he has written and directed L'Enfant de l'hiver (Winter’s Child) (1989), Paris s'éveille (1991), Une Nouvelle vie (A New Life) (1993), L'Eau froide (1994), Irma Vep (1996, presented in Cannes in Un Certain Regard), HHH - Portrait de Hou Hsiao-hsien (1997). Olivier Assayas broadened the horizons of French auteur cinema by moving into ambitious and eclectic projects: Fin août, début septembre (Late August, Early September) (1999), Les Destinées Sentimentales (2000), Demonlover (2002), Clean (2004), the moving story of an ex-junkie who wants to regain custody of her son which earned Maggie Cheung the Best Actress Award in Cannes. He then filmed Asia Argento in Hong Kong with an incursion into B films, Boarding Gate (2007), before coming back to France to film, as part of a collection initiated by the Musée d'Orsay, L'Heure d'été (Summer Hours) the story of a family with Juliette Binoche (2008). He has also published Eloge de Kenneth Anger, Conversations avec Bergman and an autobiographical essay Une Adolescence dans l'après-Mai. He has just made Carlos for Canal+, a 5 ½ hour drama on the eponymous terrorist, which was presented out of competition at the latest Cannes Film Festival. The film was broadcast in three part on Canal+ last May and will have its theatrical release in a shorter, 2 ¾ hour version on 7 July.
Luc BARNIER / Editor
Luc Barnier has edited around 50 films, and since 1979 has worked with the most highly-rated directors in French cinema. He has edited most of Olivier Assayas’s films (including Désordre (Disorder), Irma Vep and Fin août, début septembre (Late August, Early September), and has also worked with Anne Fontaine (Nettoyage à sec (Cry Cleaning), Augustin, roi du kung fu (Augustin, King of Kung Fu), Youssef Chahine (Al- yawm al-Sadis (The Sixth Day), Nicole Garcia (Place Vendôme), Maroun Bagdadi (La Fille de l'air), Idrissa Ouedraougo (Le Cri du coeur, Tilai) et Benoît Jacquot (L’école de la chair (The School of Flesh), À tout de suite (Right Now), L'Intouchable (The Untouchable)…). He also worked on the adaptation of the novel Xiao cai feng (Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress) directed by Dai Sijie. More recently he edited Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis (Welcome to the Sticks) by Dany Boon, Inju, la bête dans l'ombre (Inju, the Beast in the Shadow) by Barbet Schroeder, Tête de Turc (Turk’s Head) by Pascal Elbé and has returned to work with Olivier Assayas to edit both versions of Carlos.
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IN STRUCTORS
Olivier DUCASTEL / Director - Scriptwriter
Born on 23 February 1962 in Lyon, Olivier Ducastel spent his adolescence in Rouen. After studying cinema and drama at university, he went to IDHEC and in 1987 made his graduation film Le Goût de plaire, which was screened at the first edition of the Festival Premiers Plans. He worked as an assistant on Jacques Demy’s last film,Trois places pour le 26 (Three Places for the 26th) in 1988, he has worked as an editor or as a mixer on films by Vitali Kanevski, Youssef Chahine and Christine Pascal among others. In 1995, Olivier Ducastel met Jacques Martineau, a film- lover with literary (university lecturer) and musical (opera singer) backgrounds. Both of them turned to writing, and made a very daring first film Jeanne et le garçon formidable (Jane and the Perfect Guy), which was presented in Berlin in 1998, a musical comedy inspired by Jacques Demy’s films which tells the story of a young girl (Virginie Ledoyen) and a boy with AIDS (Mathieu Demy). Ducastel and Martineau again mixed humour and seriousness in the second work, Drôle de Félix (The Adventures of Felix) (2000), a road-movie carried by Sami Bouajila, in the role of the young, gay, HIV positive Arab boy in France in search of his father. Another initiatory story was Ma vraie vie à Rouen (My Life on Ice) (2002) which gives a portrait of a teenager, who uses a DV camera to film his family, discovers his own desires. In 2005, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and Gilbert Melki were the heroes of their fourth film, Crustacés et coquillages (Cote d’Azur), an anti-conformist vaudeville in which the filmmakers’ taste for music and dance can be seen. They then turned to history, with a saga in the legacy of May 68, Nés en 68 (Born in 68), 2008, and then with L’Arbre et la forêt (Family Tree), an evocation of the deportation of homosexuals through the revelations of a family secret (2010).
Benjamin HEISENBERG / Director
Born in 1974 in Tübingen (Germany), Benjamin Heisenberg studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts (1993-2000) and subsequently feature film directing at the Munich College of Television and Film from 1998-2005. While there, he made several short films, including Die Gelegenheit which won the School Film Grand Jury Prize at the Premiers Plans Film Festival 2004. In 1998 he founded the film magazine Revolver together with Christoph Hochhäusler and Sebastian Kutzli. His award-winning feature film debut, Schläfer, a complex thriller about love, career and betrayal, was premiered in the Cannes film festival section Un Certain Regard in 2005 and won the special Jury in 2006. His second feature film Der Räuber (The Robber) was selected in the last Berlinale.
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IN STRUCTORS
Raphaël NADJARI / Director - Scripwriter
Raphaël Nadjari comes from Marseille and studied plastic arts in Strasbourg before working on television. Despite the fact that he couldn’t speak English, this fan of independent American film decided to go to the United States, where he made the short Snow Bird in 1998. Raphaël Nadjari settled in New York, where, in 1999, he set his first feature, The Shade, an adaptation of A Gentle Creature, a short story by Dostoyevsky, which had already been brought to the screen by Bresson. A feeling of urgency exudes from this demanding, small-budget film, which was presented in Cannes in Un Certain Regard. One year later, on super 8 film, he made I am Josh Polonski's brother, a tribute to Abraham Polonsky and to the B films of the 1940s, in which the director’s favourite themes appear (Jewishness, family, repressed desire), his taste for improvisation, and his favourite actor, Richard Edson, a cult figure in the New York underground. Raphaël Nadjari continued in this vein with Apartment # 5 C, a new variation on the film noir, which was presented in the Directors’ Fortnight in 2002. Carried by the luminous Israeli actress Tinkerbell, this work seems to close the American trilogy, since he then left to make his next film in Tel Aviv. Avanim, which was noted at the Berlin Festival in 2004, describes the day to day life of a woman who has a great love of freedom and modernity, in a country marked by the weight of tradition. Still in Israel, but in Jerusalem this time, he made his 5th feature, which opened the doors of the competition in Cannes to him, Tehilim, the portrait of a family distraught over the mysterious disappearance of the father. He has finished in 2009, a documentary, Une histoire du cinéma israélien, broadcasted in May 2009, on Arte.
Mathieu POIROT-DELPECH / Director of photography
Matthieu Poirot-Delpech is a director of photography. Gratuated from IDHEC, he has worked on all the features of Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, and also Laurent Cantet’s Resources Humaines (Human Resources), Dominik Moll’s Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien (Harry Is Here to Help), and Sam Karmann’s La Vérité ou presque (True Enough), among others.
Vincent POYMIRO / Scriptwriter
Vincent Poymiro was born in 1969. After studying literature, he produced theatre shows (burlesque, gestural) and dances. He learned his trade by watching actors work. He met Michel Muller with whom he worked on the TV series Hénaut Président, and has also worked with Raphaël Nadjari (Tehilim) and Sébastien Lifshitz (Plein Sud). He is still developing projects for the cinema, but he is also working on TV series for Arte.
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AUDITORS
Part of the Ateliers d’Angers and a specific series of conferences and workshops are open to auditors: professionals (producers, directors, technicians…), exhibitors, cinema students (secondary, technical or film schools), professionals from film events (festivals, film education programmes, associations…) and film lovers.
Free of charge and by registering they will be able to benefit from the presence of the professionals at the Ateliers d'Angers.
In the morning, for the auditors and the residents: screenings and masterclasses given by professionals who will share their individual experiences and bring ideas on cinematographic creation. In the afternoon: a specific programme for the auditors with professionals. In the evening: screenings for the public at the Cinemas Les 400 coups with the speakers present.
Registration: www.premiersplans.org +33 2 41 88 41 88 // [email protected]
Masterclass création d’une Affiche Workshop décors Jacques Saulnier et Claude-Eric Poiroux
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