22/07/2015 - The CNC will be supporting the feature debut by the filmmaker, as well as those by Sophie Reine, Sou Abadi, Dror Moreh, and duo Cédric Ido and Modi Barry

Five feature-debut projects have been accepted during the third 2015 session of the CNC’s first advance on receipts committee. Standing out among them is Wild Boys [+see also:
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film profile] by Bertrand Mandico, a filmmaker who turned a lot of heads with his short films (Notre-Dame des hormones, Prehistoric Cabaret and Essai 135, presented in competition at Clermont-Ferrand in 2015, 2014 and 2009, respectively, as well as Lif Og Daudi Henry Darger and Living Still Life, selected at Venice in 2010 and 2012 in the Horizons section) and his medium-length film Boro in the Box (presented in the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 2011). Produced by Emmanuel Chaumet for Ecce Films, Wild Boys will delve into the early years of the 20^th century, on the trail of six teenagers from a good family who commit a vicious crime on Reunion Island. The captain of a ship takes charge of them, but a mutiny soon breaks out, and they find themselves washed up on a wild island where their delight is intensified by all the fantastic vegetation. Tensions begin to rise within the group, and a phenomenon that is far from ordinary begins to occur...

An advance on receipts has also been granted to Cigarettes et chocolat chaud [+see also:
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The CNC will also be backing Some Like It Veiled [+see also:
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An advance has also been promised to La vie de château by Cédric Ido and Modi Barry, a production by Matthew Gledhill for One World Films, which revolves around the culture of “threads” and the Château d'Eau neighbourhood in Paris. 

Lastly, an advance will be used to support the documentary project Les coulisses du pouvoir by Dror Moreh (who was nominated for an Oscar in 2013 for The Gatekeepers), staged by Les Films du Poisson and also being backed by Arte France Cinéma (read the news) and the Ile-de-France region.

(Translated from French)