10/12/2009

Six screenplays were selected at the last 2009 session of the second advances on receipts committee of the National Film and Moving Image Centre (CNC).

Among them is Vincent Garenq’s Guilty, his second feature after Baby Love [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (2008). Produced by Nord-Ouest Productions, the project will start shooting next spring.

Based on his book, Chronique de Mon Erreur Judiciaire (“Chronicle of My Miscarriage of Justice”), the film recounts the ordeal of Alain Marécaux, the bailiff who was arrested in 2001, along with his wife and 12 other people, as part of the Outreau case. Charged with awful acts of paedophilia they had never committed, the accused were imprisoned and had to wait for the appeal trial in December 2005 to finally be acquitted.

The film will retrace an innocent man’s descent into hell, in the face of an unbelievably unfair and inhumane legal system. It tells the story of how his life and that of his close relations were devastated by one of the greatest miscarriages of justice of our time.

An advance on receipts will also go to Possessions by up-and-coming director Eric Guirado (The Grocer’s Son [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile]), which will be produced by Incognita Films and is expected to star Elsa Zylberstein; and L'Apollonide, Souvenirs de la Maison Close (“Apollonide: Memories of the Brothel”) by radical filmmaker Bertrand Bonello (Tiresia), which will be shot in summer 2010 and produced by Les Films du Lendemain and My News Picture, in co-production with Arte France Cinéma.

The advances on receipts committee also singled out Sport de Filles (“Girls’ Sport”) by Patricia Mazuy (The King’s Daughters), which is produced by Maïa Cinéma and Lazennec. The film centres on the rivalry between two women in the world of horse training.

Other selected projects include Eugène Green’s La Sapiens (Mact Productions); and Olivier Delahaye and Dani Kouyaté’s Le Chasseur, La Femme et Le Labyrinthe (“The Hunter, the Woman and the Labyrinth”, Odelion Films).

(Translated from French)