17/12/2009

Launched a year ago by Nicolas Bailly, the website Touscoprod will see the theatrical release on December 30 of one of the features it has backed: Laurent Perreau’s Le Bel Âge (“The Beautiful Age”, see news).

With an emphasis on independent films, Touscoprod offers a selection of titles (features, mini-series, documentaries, shorts, etc) in search of funding in the development, production or distribution stage. Internet users can become co-producers with a minimum contribution of €10, have access to special services in exchange for their support (information, discussions with the film’s team, avant-premiere viewing through streaming with their name included in the credits, possible invitations to the avant-premiere in theatres or a day on set) and a share in the profits generated from the film’s exhibition.

Touscoprod has previously backed Claudia Llosa’s The Milk of Sorrow [+see also:
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film profile] (see news). Its catalogue currently includes Gilles Marchand’s French/Belgian co-production L'Autre Monde (“The Other World”, see news); Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson’s Swedish feature Sound of Noise; Roland Edzard’s French thriller Les Gens Ne Savent Pas Peut-être (“Perhaps People Don’t Know”, see news); French/Belgian/Norwegian co-production Robert Mitchum Is Dead by Olivier Babinet and Fred Kihn (see news); and Stan Neumann’s L’Œil de l’Astronome (“The Eye of the Astronomer”, see news), which will start shooting soon.

The company is also showcasing Benoit Pétré’s Thelma, Louise & Chantal (whose cast includes Caroline Cellier, Jane Birkin, Catherine Jacob and Thierry Lhermitte); Début (“Beginning”) by David Blin and Renaud Behar (featuring Roxanne Mesquida and Georges Babluani); Philippe Locquet’s Je Vous Aime Très Beaucoup (“I Love You Very A Lot”); Stéphane Mercurio’s documentary Siné Le Film: Mourir? Plutôt Crever! (Siné the Film: Die? I’d Rather Drop Dead!); and Turkish director Reha Erdem’s Kosmos (selected last summer by Paris Project as part of the Paris Cinéma festival).

(Translated from French)