This is one of the highly anticipated cinema releases of this season, the animated documentary film Flee, which means to flee in English, will be released this Wednesday, August 31 in theaters. The film follows the true story of Amin, an Afghan who had to flee his country in the 1980s when he was a child.
The opportunity to return to the production company Vivement Lundi, co-producer of the successful film.
A leader in its field
Created in 1998 in Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), Vivement Lundi is one of the recognized companies in the French landscape of stop motion animated short films, it is puppet animation, or digital. A Rennes specialty.
Can’t wait for Monday to grow. Between 2021 and 2022, the company has grown from eight to ten employees. A figure far from being representative of the emulsion that there can be around the producer who works with the intermittents du spectacle. “Depending on the productions, we can go up to fifty, sixty collaborators. It really depends on the movies. At the moment, we are on important films so we are a lot“explains Mathieu Courtois, Associate Producer and Animation Studio Director of Vivement Lundi!.
The order book is always full, and for good reason. “_I think we are doing well because our films are regularly successful at festivals. S_or in a short film. With Memorable, we were already at the Oscars in 2020 and there with Flee“says Mathieu Courtois.
The recipe for success
Leader in its field. But how to explain this success?
Mathieu Courtois has his idea: “We trust our authors and we ask them to trust us in return. And we don’t think too much. If we like the film, we will carry it to the end, no matter what.“.
When the people in the room react as they should react, we say to ourselves that it is won.
A film must bring together several very specific ingredients to be produced by Vivement Lundi. First, you need a crush on the script. “We have to like the work of the director. For example, we start a stop motion feature film from a Spanish production and when we read the script, we cried! And then we thought we had to go!“.
The historical dimension is just as important in the choice of films produced. Flee, the Danish animated documentary co-produced by Vivement Lundi, ticks all these boxes. It hits theaters this Wednesday, August 31.
Next scheduled release: Yuku and the flowers of the Himalayas, a musical comedy for the little ones, on October 18th.