NEWS BY TAMBAY A. OBENSON
Newton
I. Aduaka
The
Cinefondation’s Atelier hosts its tenth edition this year and will invite to
the Festival de Cannes 15 directors whose projects have been considered
particularly promising. Together with their producers, they will be able to
meet potential partners, a necessary step to finish their projects and start
the making of their films.
L’Atelier
provides its participants access to international co-productions, thus
accelerating the film’s completion.
The
Cinefondation’s Atelier was created in 2005 to stimulate creative filmmaking
and encourage emergence new and diverse filmmaker voices. So far, out of 141
projects, 85 have been released in theaters and 44 are currently in
pre-production.
For
L’Atelier’s 10th edition, 15 projects from 15 countries have been selected,
ranging from upstarts to veteran directors.
Of
note, Nigerian filmmaker Newton I. Aduaka's Oil On Water made the cut of 15.
Aduak's
last film, the demanding and experimental One Man Show, was a Critics Prize
winner at last year's FESPACO.
More
details on his latest, Oil On Water to come.
From
May 16-22, at Cannes, L’Atelier will arrange meetings with the directors for
film industry professionals interested in investing in their projects.
The
full list of Atelier selections follows below:
Invisible,
Pablo Giorgelli (Argentina)
Territoria,
Nora Martirosyan (Armenia)
Tabija,
Igor Drljača (Bosnia)
Saudade,
Antonio Méndez Esparza (Brazil)
Ville-Marie,
Guy Édoin (Canada)
In
the Shade of the Trees, Matías Rojas Valencia (Chile)
Ce
sentiment de l’été, Mikhaël Hers (France)
Aliyushka,
Adilkhan Yerzhanov (Kazakhstan)
The
Darkness, Daniel Castro Zimbrón (Mexico)
White
Sun, Deepak Rauniyar (Nepal)
To
All Naked Men, Bassam Chekhes (Neth/Syria)
Oil
on Water, Newton I. Aduaka (Nigeria)
Dogs,
Bogdan Mirică (Romania)
A
Yellow Bird, K. Rajagopal (Singapore)
Ruta
salvatge, Marc Recha (Spain)
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