30/12/2003

Even though the New Year’s party hasn’t quite begun yet, January’s edition of the Belgium webzine Cinérgie is already online. The main features are a look at the screenwriter Gabrielle Borile and the directors Nacho Carranza and Damien Chemin. There is news about two Belgium co-productions: Stormy Weather [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Solveig Anspach, a premiere of which was presented at the Cannes Film Festival and which will be released in Belgium cinemas on January 7, and Violence des échanges by Jean-Marc Moutout presented at the Locarno Festival and which will also son be out in domestic cinemas. The monthly publication also gives a rundown of the European Films Awards 2003, which took place in Berlin at the start of December, the Film Meetings in Liegi and the Henri Storck Panorama of Belgium documentaries. There are also interviews with Eliane Du Bois, the director of Cinélibre-Cinéart, the main distribution company of independent films in Belgium, to talk about the current changes taking place in the distribution of European films, and one with Henry Ingberg, the Secretary General at the ministry of the French Community in Belgium, who also talks about the prospects for Belgium cinema in 2004.
Cinérgie also looks at Dérives productions and goes on the set of Dans l’Ombre by Olivier Masset-Depasse, a medium length film produced by Versus Productions.

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(Translated from French)