08/06/2018 - The region will also be providing financial support to François Ozon, Eva Ionesco, Justine Triet, Maïmouna Doucouré, Michel Leclerc, Allan Mauduit and Arnaud Viard, among others

There’s a lot of talk these days about filmmakers dipping a toe into the world of TV series, but some also opt for the reverse journey, as was the case for Hervé Hadmar, whose next project, The Silence of the Moon, was one of the 13 feature films selected during the Support Fund for Cinema and Audiovisual Technical Industries in the Ile-de-France Region’s second 2018 session.

Very well-known for the TV series Les Oubliés (2008), Pigalle, la nuit (2009) Signature (2011) and Les Témoins (2015), and the mini-series Au-delà des murs (2016), which he created and directed with Marc Herpoux, Hervé Hadmar is making a return to the film industry, where he first debuted in 1999 with the feature film: Comme un poisson hors de l’eau. His second plunge into the film industry, The Silence of the Moon – which will be produced by Moana Films (Marc Missonnier) and will receive €562,000 in financial support from the region of Ile-de-France – has been in the making for a few years now and was presented by its director as a psychological science-fiction thriller set on the moon, where three astronauts find themselves stranded, with no connection to Earth and only enough oxygen to survive for a further three weeks, while down below them the world seems to be experiencing a series of disturbing explosions...

Three projects directed by female directors are also on the list of chosen projects: A Golden Youth [+see also:
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film profile] by Eva Ionesco (read the article here - Macassar Productions - €280,000), Sibyl [+see also:
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interview: Justine Triet
film profile] (working title: La Première Séance) by Justine Triet (Les Films Pelléas - €360,000) and Cuties [+see also:
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interview: Maïmouna Doucouré
film profile] by Maïmouna Doucouré (Bien ou Bien Productions - €274,000). This last project will be the first feature film by the multi-award-winning filmmaker, whose short film, Maman(s) won a César award in 2017, the Grand Prix at Toronto and the Sundance Jury Prize, where the screenplay for Cuties (co-written with Nathalie Saugeon, Alice Winocour and Valentine Milville) also won a Global Filmmaking Award last year.

The Ile-de-France region will also be supporting By the Grace of God [+see also:
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Q&A: François Ozon
film profile] by François Ozon (€360,000), Battle of the Classes [+see also:
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film profile] by Michel Leclerc (€350,000), I Wish Someone Were Waiting For Me Somewhere [+see also:
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film profile] by Arnaud Viard (Easy Tiger - €360,000 , an adaptation of Anne Gavalda's collection of short stories), Rebels [+see also:
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film profile] by Allan Mauduit ( €330,000), Le Coup de chapeau by Fabien Onteniente (Curiosa Films - €360,000), Fahim by Pierre-François Martin Laval (Waiting for Cinéma - €425,000), Les petites Voleuses by Pietro Caracciolo and Sacha Sperling (Récifilms - €300,000), Vif-argent [+see also:
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film profile] by Stéphane Batut (Zadig Films - €300,000) and the documentary project Le Temps qui vient by Bartolomeo Pampaloni (Aeternam Films - €33,000).

(Translated from French)