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The Cannes Film Festival has admitted six filmmakers, five women and one man, to its 2024 residency program.
The list of filmmakers includes Morrocan director Asmae El Moudir, best known for her feature The Mother of All Lies, which shared last year’s the L’Oeil d’or (Golden Eye) prize for the best documentary with Four Daughters (Kaouther Ben Hania) at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
The other participants are Meltse Van Coillie, Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Zhao Hao, Gessica Généus, and Andréa Slaviček. The residency program runs over four and a half months, during which all participants will live in Paris and receive personalized support to aid the writing of their first or second feature film screenplay.
The Cannes residency program was created in 2000 by Pierre Viot and Gilles Jacob and was first headed by Sylvie Perras. It is now helmed by Stéphanie Lamome.
“This year, five female directors and one male director stood out from the crowd,” Lamome said of this year’s crop of talent. “All of them have a desire to carry out their project at the Résidence, by taking advantage of this living space and of the prestige of an institution and of a city, Paris, that is a mythical site of creation in the history of cinema. We’ve seen from the past that all this resonates with them and delivers on what it promises. A lot of participants have written to say how the experience of the Résidence, both on a personal and professional level, was fundamental to them.”
Previous filmmakers who passed through the Cannes residency program include Lucrecia Martel, Kornel Mundruczó, Sebastian Lelio, Antonio Campos, and Jonas Carpignano. Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki wrote the screenplay for her first feature, Caramel, out of the program. She went on to win the César and the Oscar for best international film in 2019 with Capharnaüm.
The 2024 participants will present their projects at next year’s Cannes Film Festival. The fest will run May 14-25.
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