13/06/2014 - The CNC will also be backing films by Elie Wajeman, Léa Fehner, Benoît Jacquot, Philippe Garrel, Damien Odoul, Wang Bing and Guillaume Nicloux

Eight feature-film projects have been accepted during the second 2014 session of the CNC’s second advance-on-receipts committee. Standing out among the titles is Dans la forêt [+see also:
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film profile] in Un Certain Regard in 2010. As a screenwriter, Marchand was nominated twice in 2001 for the César for Best Screenplay for Human Resources by Laurent Cantet and With a Friend Like Harry by Dominik Moll. He was also on the team of writers for Bon Voyage [+see also:
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The CNC will also be backing Les anarchistes (read the article), the second feature by Elie Wajeman, after Alyah [+see also:
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Another second feature will also be supported by an advance on receipts: Les Ogres [+see also:
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Several seasoned filmmakers feature on the list of projects selected for the advance on receipts, including Benoît Jacquot for Journal d'une femme de chambre (for which shooting has just commenced – read the article – produced by Les Films du Lendemain), Philippe Garrel for L'ombre des femmes [+see also:
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film profile] (produced by JPG Films and MNP Productions), Chinese director Wang Bing for Past in the Present (produced by Les Films d'Ici) and Guillaume Nicloux for Valley of Love (produced by Les Films du Worso). The latter title will star Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu as two parents who come together again following the death of their son, who wrote a letter telling them that they have to go to Death Valley in the United States.

(Translated from Spanish)