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There was some arthouse cinema dressed up as genre but no real genre cinema scene,” commented Maraval. “Genre cinema was absent from French cinema. The company is headed by Lounas and Maraval with support from production manager Manon Lhoumeau.
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Under the Wild West strategy, the aim is to develop around 12 French genre feature films and series projects a year drawn from workshops run by the residency. The company was born out of WBI and Capricci’s collaboration around the latter’s So Film Genre screenwriting residency, which Lounas spearheaded five years ago in response to a dearth of French-language genre cinema.įeature films to emerge from the residency prior to the creation of Wild West included Just Philippot’s The Swarm, which was feted with the special 2020 label of Cannes Critics’ Week and then acquired by Netflix outside of France and Spain.
The Bordeaux event coincided with the first anniversary of Wild West’s creation in 2021. Other acting talents also attached to the project include Makita Samba and Steve Tientcheu. Zadi’s star has risen in France over the last 18 months on the back of his film Simply Black, for which he won the César for best promising actor in 2021. It marks a feature debut for writer and director Yohann Gloaguen, who previously took writing credits on Cannes Midnight screening title Bloody Oranges and worked as an assistant director to David Lynch and Wong Kar Wai.
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Open Book is written by French detective thriller writer Hervé Commère while rising director Carlos Abascal Peiro, whose short film Jupiter! was a festival hit, is attached to direct.ĭead Man’s Shoes is set to star Jean-Pascal Zadi as an Uber driver who is transformed into a flamboyant gangster figure when he slips on the flashy shoes of a man who dies in the back of his car. This year’s selection also included a handful of comedy titles including Open Book, in which a brother and sister on the edge of society plot an elaborate literary fraud, and identity swap tale Dead Man’s Shoes. Highlights included sci-fi thriller Fuxion, in which a female detective goes undercover on the dark web to investigate a series of deaths connected to an erotic virtual reality dating site psychopath drama Fragile, about a fusional mother and daughter hiding a dark secret The Kingdom, in which a teenager’s real-world fate is inextricably tied up with that of her medieval warrior avatar in an online game, and eco-warrior, survivalist drama To The Trees.
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“We’re trying to get companies on board at the development stage and to begin conversations around special effects and cast early on,” he continued.Īttendees this year included broadcaster-backed production and distribution companies Studiocanal, SND and Orange Studio, pay-TV giant Canal+, sales company WTFilms, distributor Le Pacte, film companies Pathé and mk2 Films, special effects company Mac Guff and CAA Media Finance’s Roeg Sutherland.Ī slate of 12 feature-length projects, mainly at the treatment stage, were presented over the course of an evening in Bordeaux’s historic Le Français cinema theatre, using a combination of mood reels and text readings by professional actors. “The aim is to get the big financiers of French cinema to Bordeaux and create a dialogue around French-language genre cinema and these projects in particular,” explained Capricci head Thierry Lounas, who spearheaded the creation of Wild West with WBI co-head Vincent Maraval. The meeting, running June 8-9, gathered emerging screenwriters and directors, sales and acquisition professionals, film financiers and special effects specialists for two days of pitching and networking French-language genre incubator and production company Wild West, which was launched last year as a joint venture between Wild Bunch International (WBI) and Capricci, has unveiled its second slate of projects at a special event in Bordeaux.
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