20/07/2007

After a meeting of the second advances on receipts committee, this week CNC Director General Véronique Cayla granted advances on receipts for pre-production to two projects: Philippe Garrel’s La Frontière de l’aube and Ursula Meier’s Home.

After Regular Lovers [+see also:
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Starring his son Louis (Love Songs [+see also:
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Co-written by the director and his regular partners Arlette Langmann and Marc Cholodenko, the story is being kept under wraps by the production.

The CNC also allocated €420,000 to French/Swiss/Belgian co-production Home, directed by Meier and starring Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Gourmet, Kacey Mottet, Madeleine Budd and Adelaïde Leroux. This is the director’s first feature for the big screen.

Co-written by Raphaëlle Valbrune and Antoine Jaccoud, Home is about a family who refuses to leave their house in the middle of the isolated countryside, where a motorway under construction is soon about to open.

Produced by French outfit Archipel 35 (45%), Home is being jointly produced by Switzerland’s Box Productions (35%) and Belgium’s Need Productions (20%), with backing from Eurimages (€480,000), France 3 Cinéma, Canal+, the Communauté française de Belgique, RTBF, the Swiss Federal Office of Culture and Swiss television channel TSR.

Diaphana will distribute the title in France, while Memento Films will handle international sales. Filming is set to begin on July 30 in Bulgaria. Cinematography is by Agnès Godard.

The CNC granted post-production advances on receipts to 24 mesures [+see also:
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Produced by WY Productions , the film received co-production funding from MK2, who will release the title theatrically on October 3. The outfit is also handling world sales.

A sum of €70,000 was allocated to Camila Guzmán Urzúa’s The Sugar Curtain, a documentary on the golden years of the Cuban Revolution as seen by those born and raised there, a disillusioned generation whose values crumbled in 1989. A Berlinale Forum entry earlier this year, the Paraiso Production title opens on October 3 through Epicentre Films.

(Translated from French)