Vianney Lebasque ready to shoot Team Spirit
- Ahmed Sylla, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Camélia Jordana topline this Monkey Pack Films and M.E.S. production, which is set to be distributed by SND
The final preparations are being made ahead of the start of the shoot for the second feature by Vianney Lebasque, Team Spirit [+see also:
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Written by Franck Bellock and Vianney Lebasque, the movie tells the true story of the most unlikely sporting scam of the 21st century: in order not to lose a grant from his federation, a coach forms a basketball team made up of players faking that they are intellectually disabled in order to take part in the 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games.
Produced by Jean-Yves Robin and Marc Stanimirovic for Monkey Pack Films, and by Marc-Etienne Schwartz for M.E.S. Productions (which previously staged Les Petits Princes), Team Spirit is being co-produced by M6 Films and SND. Having been pre-purchased by Canal+, Ciné+, M6 and W9, the feature will shoot for 41 days, from 21 July-5 October, in Paris, Bordeaux and Lisbon. SND will be in charge of the French distribution and the international sales.
M.E.S. Productions and Monkey Pack Films also have Revenge [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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