10/12/2019 - The Flemish regional investment fund is injecting €1.3 million into ten new audiovisual productions

For its second session of 2019, Screen Flanders is supporting ten new audiovisual productions – four TV series and six features, including Annette [+see also:
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The first English-language movie by the French director (The Night Is Young, The Lovers on the Bridge, Holy Motors [+see also:
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interview: Leos Carax
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Screen Flanders is also backing the horror flick The Deep House by genre veterans Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, which follows a couple of photojournalists who decide to explore a submerged haunted house in the Pyrenees and attempt to reawaken the spirit residing within it. The Radar Films (France) production is being staged in Belgium by Umedia.

Three Belgian movies are receiving support: Ritueel by Hans Herbots (The Treatment [+see also:
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interview: Robin Pront
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interview: Alex van Varmerdam
interview: Reinout Scholten van Aschat
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interview: Bart Van Langendonck
interview: Michaël R. Roskam
film profile]), a drama also starring Veerle Baetens, who this time is flanked by Ben Segers. The movie is being staged by Savage Film.

Lastly, Screen Flanders will also be backing an animated feature by Iranian director Sepideh Farsi, The Siren [+see also:
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(Translated from French)