29/03/2013 - The 15thsession of production workshops helping young directors to develop their projects for first feature films will commence tomorrow

Alyah [+see also:
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film profile] by Léa Fehner, Since Otar Left by Julie Bertuccelli… The list of projects for first feature films assisted over the past few years by Emergence are not lacking in talent noticed at major international festivals. Tomorrow will see the start of the 15thsession of these production workshops offering young filmmakers the possibility of filming sequences from their projects, with assistance at artistic level and professional means of production.

Until April 19th, the six laureates 2013 will be hard at work in Marcoussis, in Essonne. Two female directors stand out : Leyla Bouzid with Dieu protège ma fille [+see also:
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Previous projects which were Emergence laureates and are currently in post-production include La fille du 14 juillet by Antonin Peretjatko (Ecce Films), Shanghaï-Belleville by Show Chun Lee (article - Clandestine Films), Les Interdits (formerly Friends from France – article) by the duo Anne Weil - Philippe Kotlarski (Les Films du Poisson), Baby Balloon (formerly Bici) by Dominique Laroche and Stéphane Liberski (Versus/Hold-Up Films), Landes by François de Xavier Vives (article - Sésame Films) and Dzma by Téona Grenade (MPM Films).

(Translated from French)