Five women directors get advance on receipts from CNC

20/12/2011

The forthcoming films by Laetitia Masson, Katell Quillévéré, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Axelle Ropert and Nadège Trebal are among the seven projects selected at the last 2011 session of the second advance on receipts committee of the National Film and Moving Image Centre (CNC).

The pledge of an advance on receipts was made to Masson’s Etre Ou Ne Pas Être (“To Be Or Not To Be”, produced by Artisan Films), whose screenplay focuses on love ties. It will be the seventh big-screen narrative feature by the director who has been selected three times at Berlin (in the Forum in 1996 with To Have (Or Not), in competition in 2000 with Love Me and in the Panorama in 2008 with Guilty [+see also:
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The CNC will also back the production of Suzanne, the second feature by Quillévéré (produced by Move Movies), who was discovered in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2010 with Love Like Poison [+see also:
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Hadzihalilovic is also making her second feature with Tropique, which is expected to start shooting in spring in the West Indies (Agat Films). The director did the rounds of international festivals (notably Toronto and San Sebastian in 2004) with her debut feature, the fascinating Innocence.

The pledge of an advance on receipts was also made to Ropert’s Tirez la Langue (“Stick Your Tongue Out!”, Les Films Pelléas), the second feature film project by the director who first came to attention in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2009 with The Wolberg Family [+see also:
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The selected titles at this session also include two documentary projects: Casses by Trebal (Maïa Cinéma) and National Gallery by Frederick Wiseman (Idéale Audience).

Finally, an advance on receipts was awarded to Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli’s animated project Phantom Boy, which will be produced by Folimage, as was the duo’s first feature: A Cat in Paris [+see also:
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