End of filming in sight for Jérémy Clapin’s Meanwhile on Earth

by Fabien Lemercier

13/10/2022 - Following I Lost My Body , the director is making the leap to fiction with his second feature, starring Megan Northam, Sofia Lesaffre, Catherine Salée and Wim Willaert, and produced by One World Films

End of filming in sight for Jérémy Clapin’s Meanwhile on Earth

Actresses Megan Northam (© Yann Morrison) and Sofia Lesaffre

Having kicked off on 30 August, filming on Meanwhile on Earth [+see also:
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Written by the director himself, the story revolves around an “absent” hero: an astronaut lost in the emptiness of space. His absence is spoken about indirectly here, from planet Earth. He was the nation’s son, loved and admired by all. But he’s primarily always on the mind of his little sister Elsa, who’s the real “fully present” heroine in this story. Elsa has lived her life and her childhood by proxy, sustaining herself off the dreams and ambitions of her older brother and hero. He was her point of reference and her daily inspiration. While he floats around, somewhere up there, in the ether, Elsa also drifts, right here on Earth…

Meanwhile on Earth is produced by Marc du Pontavice on behalf of One World Films (who previously produced I Lost My Body), notably in co-production with Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, and benefits from a CNC advance on receipts. The 35-day film shoot will mostly unfold in Puy-de-Dôme (Clermont-Ferrand and its surrounds, Saint-Eloy-les-Mines, Royat, the forest in Orcines, the crater lake in Gour de Tazenat, and in Royat), with a few days also planned in Paris and Belgium, and with photography entrusted to Belgium’s Robrecht Heyvaert (Rebel [+see also:
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