Advance on receipts for Garcias, Fitoussi, Estrougo and Forestier
At the second session of 2006, the first advance on receipts commission of the Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) selected four fiction feature projects.
These include the French/Danish/German co-production Sois Sage by Juliette Garcias. Shooting on the film – which will be produced by Paris-based outfit Slot Machine (much sought after in Cannes this year with Hamaca Paraguya by Paz Encina and Fantasma by Lisandro Alonso), Germany’s CMW and Denmark’s Zentropa – is expected to start in September.
La vie d’artiste by Marc Fitoussi has also been promised an advance on receipts. Produced by Haut et Court, the €3.5m budget film received backing from Canal + TPS, a non-encrypted channel and the Ile de France region. Filming is set to begin in August. Starring Sandrine Kiberlain, Denis Podalydès and Émilie Dequenne, La vie d’artiste will recount the misadventures of three characters: an actress who struggles to earn a living as a body double and dreams of other jobs, a French teacher whose ambition it is to become a writer, and a young woman working in a karaoke bar who hopes to start a career as a real singer.
The commission also gave the green light to Ain’t Scared by 22 year-old director Audrey Estrougo, winner of the 2006 Junior Award for Best Screenplay. Produced by 7e Apache Films (the company of director Xavier Durringer), the feature will depict the lives of black and white adolescents from poor suburbs and how their relationship changes when one of them is selected for the famous Arsenal football club – a story reminiscent of the life of player Nicolas Anelka.
The fourth promise of advance on receipts went to La Troisième partie du monde by Eric Forestier, whose cast is to include Clémence Poésy, Maya Sansa and Melvil Poupaud. The script, developed by Château-Rouge Production and read in full by the actors at the last Premiers Plans d’Angers Festival, is the story of a man and a woman who meet on a train to Italy. Emma conducts consumer opinion surveys, while François is a mathematician specialising in entropy. They fall in love, but one day François leaves and Emma ends up alone to lead a turbulent life.
(Translated from French)
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