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ANGERS WORKSHOPS 4-11 July 2010 6th edition 2009 participants with Jeanne Moreau, Sandrine Veysset and Claude-Eric Poiroux Artistic director : Jeanne Moreau www.premiersplans.org PRESS KIT Contact: Liza Narboni – 01 42 71 11 62 / [email protected] PARTNERS Angers Workshops receive support from: With the support of: Angers Workshops would like to thank: Université Angevine du Temps Libre // ADAMI // Bouvet Ladubay // Bureau d’accueil des tournages de la SEM Pays de la Loire // Centre Angevin des Ressources Associatives de la Ville d’Angers // Le Chabada // Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts d’Angers // Elacom // Hôtel Mercure Angers Centre // Evolis Card Printer // Ford Rent // Hexa Repro // Nouveau Théâtre d’Angers // La Semaine du son // OPCAL // SACD // Sceren // Association Valentin Huäy // Yamakado. 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 PREMIERS PLANS 2 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. PREMIERS PLANS 3 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. PREMIERS PLANS 4 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.