End of filming in sight for We Need Your Vote by Mathieu Sapin
- The cast of the cartoonist's debut feature film is led by Alexandra Lamy and Finnegan Oldfield. Production by Pyramide and Bac
The home stretch for shooting on Mathieu Sapin's debut feature film, We Need Your Vote [+see also:
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interview: Eva Husson
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interview: Bertrand Bonello
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interview: Frédéric Lavigne
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Written by Mathieu Sapin and Noé Debré (nominated for a César in 2016 for best original screenplay for Dheepan [+see also:
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Q&A: Jacques Audiard
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Produced by Francis Boepsflug and Stéphane Parthenay for Pyramide Productions and by David Grumbach and Mathieu Robinet for Bac Films, We Need Your Vote benefits from advance financing from Canal + and Ciné +, as well as support from the Occitanie region and Sofica Indéfilms, Cofimages and Cinémages. Having commenced on 18 September, the six-week shoot will take place in Montpellier and Paris with Jérôme Alméras (nominated for a CST in 2013 for Quai d'Orsay and a David di Donatello 2014 for his specialism for Human Capital [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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