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It’s full steam ahead for Nord-Ouest Films in 2017

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- The Paris-based outfit is getting the ball rolling on the shoot for Ami-ami, and is working on the upcoming films by Carion, Ocelot, Cailley, Hers and Brizé

It’s full steam ahead for Nord-Ouest Films in 2017
Actor William Lebghil, who toplines Ami-ami, the feature debut by Victor Saint-Macary (© Elisa Parron)

2017 is already looking like an extremely busy year for Christophe RossignonPhilip Boëffard and Pierre Guyard, the three producers at Paris-based outfit Nord-Ouest Films. On Monday 23 January, the seven-week shoot for (Girl)Friend [+see also:
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, the feature debut by Victor Saint-Macary, will kick off. The comedy is set to star William Lebghil (who turned heads in such films as Love at First Fight [+see also:
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Memories [+see also:
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 and Les Nouvelles Aventures d'Aladin [+see also:
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, and the TV series Soda), Margot Bancilhon (who rose to prominence in Les Petits Princes [+see also:
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, put on a strong performance in Five [+see also:
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 and is soon to grace screens in Going to Brazil [+see also:
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), Camille Razat and Jonathan Cohen. Written by the director together with Thomas CailleyAudrey Diwan and Benjamin Charbit, the storyline is being kept under wraps for the time being. Produced by Pierre Guyard (a European Film Promotion Producer on the Move in 2015), Ami-ami, which has been pre-purchased by Canal+ and Ciné+, is being backed by the La Banque Postale Image, Cinémage and Cinéventure Soficas. Le Pacte will handle the French theatrical distribution and international sales. 

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Standing out among the other projects being staged by Pierre Guyard are two films that should begin shooting in the second half of 2017: the as-yet untitled sophomore feature by Thomas Cailley (who rose to fame at Cannes in 2014 with Love at First Fight) and Amanda [+see also:
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 by Mikhaël Hers (Memory Lane [+see also:
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 and This Summer Feeling [+see also:
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, which is currently screening as part of the MyFrenchFilmFestival). The young producer also has If You Saw His Heart [+see also:
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 by Joan Chemla (starring Gael García Bernal and Marina Vacth) in post-production and two projects in development:  Les Deux Fils by Félix Moati and an untitled movie by Géraldine Nakache.

The two long-serving producers at Nord-Ouest Films, Christophe Rossignon and Philip Boëffard, are also hard at work, as they have My Boy [+see also:
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 by Christian Carion (starring Guillaume Canet and Mélanie Laurent) in post-production and the animated title Dilili in Paris [+see also:
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 by Michel Ocelot in production, with a release slated for 2018. Their projects currently in development include At War [+see also:
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 by Stéphane Brizé (who Nord-Ouest previously worked successfully with on The Measure of a Man [+see also:
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), which could allegedly see Vincent Lindon among the cast, L'Aviatrice by Camille and Olivier Treiner (revolving around the adventures of Adrienne Bolland, one of the most famous French female aviators, who in 1920 had the dream of becoming the first pilot to fly over the Andes) and In the Name of the Land [+see also:
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 by Edouard Bergeon (a dramatic descent into the world of farmers overburdened with debt). 

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(Translated from French)

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