05/12/2016 - The first Belgian co-production for Netflix, La Femme la plus assassinée du monde, has also been accepted for funding, in addition to three animation projects

For its final funding session of 2016, Wallimage has opted to support no fewer than nine projects (including the new film by Olivier Masset-Depasse, the first Belgian co-production by Netflix and three animation projects). Duelles, the third feature by Masset-Depasse, will pit Anne Coesens, who has already starred in the director's first two films (Cages [+see also:
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Wallimage will also be backing the new documentary feature being staged by Les Films de la Passerelle, John Cockerill toute une histoire, directed by Bernard Balteau, in addition to various prestigious co-productions, including the adaptation of the bestseller by Romain Puértolas, The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir [+see also:
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film profile], which has been entrusted to Canadian director Ken Scott (whom we have to thank for Starbuck, the film that spawned two remakes) and will be co-produced by Scope Pictures. Another interesting decision by Wallimage is that it intends to get behind La Femme la plus assassinée du monde, in which Anna Mouglalis is slated to play Maxa, a leading actress in the Grand Guignol theatrical movement. The film will be produced by Fontana and, for the first time in Belgium, by Netflix. Also of note is the fact that Wallimage will support a new player on the Belgian production scene, Velvet Films, founded by Sébastien Schelenz, which is kicking off its activities with another adaptation, this time of a series of acclaimed German children's books, Liliane Susewind.

Wallimage will be backing three major animation projects: Fritzi était là, a feature debut co-produced by Artemis in Belgium, which is set just before the fall of the Berlin Wall and is slated to be released in time for the commemoration in 2019, and two 52-episode series: Boule et Bill in 3D, produced by Belvision, and Miss Milly Questions, staged by uMedia.

The ninth and final project supported will be Quartier des Banques, a Swiss-Belgian series directed by DoP Vincent Van Gelder and co-produced by Panache.

(Translated from French)