The Society for the Development of Cultural Enterprises (SODEC) announced Monday morning the funding for the production of ten feature films to be directed by Mariloup Wolfe, Anik Jean, Chloé Robichaud, Monia Chokri, Pascal Plante, Léa Pool, Geneviève Dulude- From Celles, Eric San, François Péloquin and Chloé Cinq-Mars.
These ten projects, including seven carried out by women, are divided into two categories, namely “2.5 million and more” (7) and those with budgets of less than 2.5 million (3).
With Heart of slush, Mariloup Wolfe (Jouliks) will bring to the big screen the novel by Sarah-Maude Beauchesne who signs the screenplay. This feature film tells the story of two sisters, Billie and Annette who, in the middle of summer, both fall in love with Pierre, a young cyclist prodigy. For Billie, Annette’s youngest, the time has come to take her place.
Quebec (majority) -France co-production, Blue flower by Geneviève Dulude-De Celles (A colony), follows the path of Mihai, an art expert sent to Romania to assess the work of Nina, a gifted painter girl. Returning for the first time to his homeland, Mihai confronts the ghosts of his past. Geneviève Dulude-De Celles also signs the screenplay.
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Filmmaker Léa Pool.
Lea Pool (Augustine’s passion, Bring me), script and direct Silence Hotel, a film in which Jean, a man who sets out on a one-way trip to a war-torn country, finds new meaning in his life. This Quebec (majority) -Swiss co-production is an adaptation of the novel Gold by Icelandic writer Audur Ava Olaffsdottir.
Maryse Latendresse (screenplay) and multidisciplinary artist Anik Jean (direction) will shoot for their part My mother’s men, a feature film in which the central character of Elsie goes to find her mother’s five ex-husbands, including her father with whom she is in cold blood, in order to honor her memory. After Lost soul, My mother’s men is Anik Jean’s second feature film.
Chloe Robichaud (Sarah prefers running, Country) will put on track Happy Days, his third feature film in which the character of Emma (Sophie Desmarais), a homosexual conductor, must get rid of a toxic relationship with her father played by Christian Bégin. March 11, 2021, Press announced this project which will involve the Orchester Métropolitain and maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Maude Guérin and Nour Belkhiria are also attached to the film.
With Simple like Sylvain, Monia Chokri is writing and directing her third feature film which follows My brother’s wife and Baby sitter whose release is still awaited. Simple like Sylvain is defined as a film with caustic humor in which the character of Sofia questions her values and aspirations after falling in love with Sylvain, an entrepreneur from a universe very different from her own. Co-production with France (minority).
At last, Space Cadet, science fiction animation inspired by the graphic novel by Kid Koala (alias Eric San) will be produced by the latter from a screenplay by Mylène Chollet. Musical fable without words, Space Cadet examines the relationship between Robot, an aging companion, and Celeste, a girl-turned-woman and cosmonaut about to undertake her first interstellar mission.
Projects of 2.5 million and less
Pascal Plante, whose film Nadia, Butterfly, with received the label “Cannes 2020” despite the cancellation of the festival, comes back to us with The red rooms, a legal thriller in which the character of Kelly-Anne goes every morning to the courthouse to attend the trial of a serial killer for whom she develops an obsession. The key to this story lies in a video of the murder of a preteen girl who looks eerily like Kelly-Anne. Pascal Plante also signs the screenplay.
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Director of Nadia, Butterfly, Pascal Plante returns with the project The red rooms.
François Péloquin (The sound of trees) directs and consigns the feature film with Sarah Lévesque Melting ice. Police drama, the film tells us the story of Louise, a woman specializing in the rehabilitation of inmates whose journey takes an unexpected turn the day she suspects that a newcomer is the murderer of her mother.
Finally, Chloé Cinq-Mars, screenwriter of the film Derivative by David Uloth, receives support from SODEC for Forget Charlotte, film for which she wrote the screenplay and which she will direct. Psychological horror thriller, Forget Charlotte is the story of Penelope, a young mother who, hunted down by the thief of a convenience store whom she caught in the middle of a mischief, sinks into a psychosis, to the point where she is becoming a threat to her own child.