Industry Week at the Champs Elysees Film Festival
June 20–22, 2017
‘The heart of Paris beats for film industry’
Industry Week is the professional part of the Champs-Elysées Film Festival.
This label includes the US in Progress and Paris Coproduction Village. Together they offer 24 film projects at different stages, from development to post production. More than 200 professionals from the industry, producers, international sellers, distributors, etc. are welcomed
PARIS COPRODUCTION VILLAGE UNVEILS ITS SELECTION
Organized by LES ARCS EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL within the frame of the Champs-Elysées Film Festival Industry Week, PARIS COPRODUCTION VILLAGE is made up of professional meetings and is also a financing platform for feature projects selected worldwide.
For its fourth edition, which will take place June 20–22, 2017 in Paris, the following projects have been selected:
“Amparo” by Simón Mesa Soto; 2016 — short film
“Madre” Official Competition Cannes, AFI IFF, Chicago IFF; 2014 — short film
“Leidi” Golden Palm Cannes, Best UK Short Award London Short FF, Chicago IFF, Edinburgh IFF) produced by Evidencia Films (Colombia) and Momento Film (Sweden)
“Anatomy of Time” by Jakrawal Nilthamrong; 2015
“ Vanishing point” Hivos Tiger Award Rotterdam IFF, Official Competition Hong Kong; 2014 — short film
“Stone Cloud” Forum Expanded, Berlin IFF; produced by Diversion (Thailand)
“The Asadas” by Ryota Nakano; 2016
“Her Love Boils Bathwater” Newcomer of Year, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress Awards of the Japanese Academy — 2012
“Capturing Dad” Asia Pacific Film Festival, Granada IFF, Oslo IFF) produced by Bridgehead Inc. (Japan)
“Corpus Christi” by Jan Komasa, 2014
“Warsaw 44” Busan IFF, Golden Lions of Gdynia FF ; 2011
“Suicide Room” Berlin IFF Panorama, Golden Lions of Gdynia FF, OFF Camera) produced by Aurum Films (Poland)
“Fingerplay” by Mauro Mueller; 2012 — short film
“Un Mundo para Raul” Oscar Student Academy Award ; 2010 — short film
“Ge Hen’Nah” Cine Golden Eagle Award, Silver Lei Award; produced by Contrast Film (Switzerland)
“Heaven is Dark” by Luke Seomore and Joseph Bull; 2014
“Blood Cells” Venice IFF, Edinburgh IFF; produced by Third Films (Great Britain)
“Love your neighbor” by Sharon Bar-Ziv; 2012
“Room 514" ACID, Tribeca IFF, Rotterdam IFF, Karlovy Vary, Sarajevo IFF) produced by Transfax Films (Israel)
“Neuros” by Guilherme Coelho; 2015
“Orphans of Eldorado” Warsaw IFF, Chicago IFF, Rio IFF) produced by Bubbles Project and Matizar Filmes (Brazil)
“Sounds of Animals Fighting” by Sibs Shongwe-La Mer; 2015
“Necktie Youth” Berlin IFF Panorama, AFI IFF, Tribeca IFF, Carthage Film Festival, Durban IFF) produced by Fireworks Media (South Africa)
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Projects selected within the frame of the Focus Taiwan:
“A Chinese in the Trenches” by Show Chen Lee 2015
“Shanghaï Belleville” released in France on December the 30th 2015, distributed by Zootrope) produced by Yi Tiao Long Hu Bao International Entertainment Co. (Taiwan)
“Loma — Our Home” by Hui-Chen Huang — documentary,
“Small Talks” 2016 — documentary Teddy Award Berlinale IFF, Golden Horse IFF
“The Priestess Walks Alone” Golden Harvest Festival Awards Grand Prize) produced by Hummingbrid Productions (Taiwan)
“Raining Roses” by Rina Tsou, , 2016 — documentary
“Arnie” 2016 — short film , Critics Weeks, Taipei IFF, Melbourne IFF
“Chicharon” 2013 — short film, Camerimage
“Guai Wu” 2011 — short film , Locarno IFF produced by Eric Xie (Taiwan)
This selection aims at showing the diversity of worldwide cinema, in terms of geography as well as a balance between newcomers and experienced directors. It includes:
1 South African project,
1 Israeli project,
3 European projects,
2 Latin American projects,
5 projects from Asia including 3 projects within the Focus Taiwan.
3 first feature films projects
Taiwan is the guest country of this fourth edition. In partnership with the Taipei Film Commission, Paris Coproduction Village will present this year a « Focus Taiwan », inviting 3 Taiwanese projects in development.
A conference will take place during the event and will discuss the improvement of French-Taiwanese coproduction frameworks.
Based on cases studies (“The Road to Mandalay” by Midi Z, “Love Wall” by Romain Cogitore, “Lucy” by Luc Besson…), the participants’ conference will include:
Jennifer Jao (Commission of the Taipei film),
Aileen Li (executive producer in Taiwan),
Vincent Wang (House on Fire, producer) and
Tom Dercourt (Cinema Defacto, producer).
In addition, the 6 actual residents of Cannes Film Festival Cinéfondation will join theselection, with their projects:
“Aria” by Myrsini Aristidou (Cyprus)
“The Empty House” by Rati Tsiteladze (Georgia)
“Memory House” by João Paulo Miranda Maria (Brazil)
“Sole” by Carlo Sironi (Italia)
“Under the Sun” by Qiu Yang (China)
“The Unwanted” by Anwar Boulifa (Great Britain)
All these projects will benefit from one-to-one pre-scheduled meetings with international sales agents, distributors, producers, networking events, as well as seminars taught by leading film industry professionals.
The Champs-Elysées Film Fest, the CNC, the Taipei Film Commission, TitraFilm, Procirep, Cofiloisirs and the Taipei French Desk support Paris Coproduction Village.
It is organized in collaboration with our partners Cannes Cinéfondation, ACE, Cinando, OLFFI, Hong-Kong Asian Film Financing Forum (HAF), Screen International, EAVE, Europa International, Variety, LatAm, Cineuropa and Ecran Total.
The team behind Paris Coproduction Village is the team of Village of Coproductions and Les
Arcs European Film Festival, that is to say:
Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin, CEO
Jérémy Zelnik, Head of Industry
Anna Ciennik, Profesional Events Coordinator
Guillaume Calop, General Manager
Clémentine Larroudé, Deputy General Manager
Fabienne Silvestre-Bertoncini, Public and Institutional Relations
Renan San Germano, Coordination Assistant
Flore Bardet, Coordination Assistant
