27/10/2010

Four debut feature film screenplays were selected in October by the first advance on receipts committee of the National Film and Moving Image Centre (CNC).

Standing out among the selected films is Crawl, to be helmed by Hervé Lasgouttes and produced by Stéphanie Douet for Sensito Films. Co-scripted by the director and Loïc Delafoulhouze, the film is set in Cornouailles in dune and ocean-swept Brittany. It centres on Martin, who lives off a series of casual jobs and petty theft.

He has recently started going out with Gwen, a mysterious girl who lives alone in a mobile home. When Gwen announces to Martin that she is pregnant by him, he leaves her right away and goes astray… Until the day Martin is accused of murder.

The pledge of an advance on receipts was also made to two other narrative feature projects. The first is L’hérétique, produced by Les Films d'Ici and directed by Didier Nion, who took part in 2004 in the Karlovy Vary documentary competition with Seventeen. The second is Mouton (“Sheep”), which doesn’t yet have a producer and is helmed by duo Marianne Pistone and Gilles Deroo, who made the medium-length film Winter (The Large Cats) (2008).

Finally, the CNC selected a feature-length documentary project: Christophe Gagnet’s La Beauté, La Rescapée dans les Camps Nazis (“Beauty, The Survivor in the Nazi Camps”, La Huit Production).

(Translated from French)