This year’s Groupe Ouest Annual Selection residency has drawn to a close

by Fabien Lemercier

20/12/2022 - The Brittany-based writing residency has published a booklet detailing the outcome of the work carried out on the seven feature film projects selected in 2022

This year’s Groupe Ouest Annual Selection residency has drawn to a close

(l-r) The Groupe Ouest 2022 Annual Selection participants: Laurent Slama, Caroline Cherrier, Josza Anjembe, Rachid Djaïdani, Elie Grappe, Cyril Houplain and Ralitza Petrova

They’ve clearly worked hard: at the end of several sessions spread across nine months under the aegis of Groupe Ouest - the leading European provider of writing coaching residencies for film and fiction for some years now - the projects from the Annual 2022 Selection (read our news) have made significant progress, and these creative improvements are made clear by the publication of the Booklet (accessible in French and available to download here).

For the record, the projects in question are Belle-Île by Elie Grappe (co-written with Victor Jestin), Une Dinguerie by Rachid Djaïdani, Les Chevreuils by Laurent Slama (also known under the pseudonym Élisabeth Vogler), À moi aussi ça fait mal by Josza Anjembe, Pigeon Wars by Lebanon’s Dania Bdeir, and two animated titles: Le dernier des Cailloux by Caroline Cherrier and Pépite by Cyril Houplain.