Les Arcs Unveils 2023 Works-In-Progress Selection

Melanie Goodfellow
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The Les Arcs Film Festival has unveiled the 13 upcoming features selected for its Work-in Progress showcase.

The selection includes respected French, New York-based artist and filmmaker Marie Losier’s bio-doc Peaches Goes Bananas about Canadian electronic musician Merrill Beth Nisker, aka Peaches.

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Excerpts from the selected productions will be screened to industry professionals on December 17 as part of the festival’s Industry Village events, which also includes the Coproduction Village.

Both events are taking place within the framework of the festival’s 15th edition running from December 16 to 19 in the French Alps resort of Les Arcs.

The showcase received a record 181 project submissions this year, 38% of which are directed women. In the final selection, seven projects are directed by women and six by men.

The selection comprises eight first films, four second films and one film from a more established director. 17 countries are represented in the final selection, coproduction countries included.

The projects are eligible for the TitraFilm, the Alphapanda Audience Engagement and 22D Music awards.

The TitraFilm Award offers image and sound post-production facilities worth €10.000. It will be judged by incoming Edinburgh Film Festival director Paul Ridd, Belgian filmmaker Fien Troch and festival programmer Annina Wettstein

The Alphapanda Audience Engagement Award offers €6,000 of digital film marketing support, split between €800 of advertising spend and €5200 for the development of a digital marketing strategy and implementation of a social media campaign around the awarded film’s festival premiere.

The jury members will be French film critic Frédéric Mercier, Alphapanda founder and film marketing strategist Mathias Noschis and Joanna Solecka, who is the head of the company’s Warsaw office,

The 22D Music Award provides €10.000 award for music composition, to be split equally between the production of an original composition and executive production service.

The jury will feature Charades co-head Carole Baraton, 22D Music CEO Emmanuel Delétang and composer Delphine Malaussena.

The projects selected projects are:

  • ACTS OF LOVE** by Jeppe Rønde (Denmark)
    Produced by Paloma Productions (Denmark)

  • HOTEL ORION** by Zoltan Moll (Hungary)
    Produced by Zoltan Moll (Hungary) and Odesa Films (Hungary)

  • LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS* by Urška Djukić (Slovenia)
    produced by Spok Film (Slovenia), Staragara I.T. (Italy), Izazov 365 (Croatia), Nosorogi (Slovenia) and Non-Aligned Films (Serbia)

  • PARADIJS* by Bobbie Koek (Netherlands)
    Produced by FIXY (Netherlands) and A Private View (Belgium)

  • PEACHES GOES BANANAS by Marie Losier (France)
    Produced by Tamara Films (France) and Michigan Films (Belgium)

  • THE DOCTOR SAYS I’LL BE ALRIGHT BUT I’M FEELING BLUE (wt)** by Mascha Schilinski (Germany), Produced by Studio Zentral (Germany) and ZDF – Das Kleine Fernsehspiel (Germany)

  • THE SWEDISH TORPEDO** by Frida Kempff (Sweden)
    Produced by Momento Film (Sweden), Amrion (Estonia), Inland Film Company (Finland) and Velvet Films (Belgium)

  • TOXIC* by Saulė Bliuvaitė (Lithuania)
    Produced by Akis Bado (Lithuania)

  • U ARE THE UNIVERSE* by Pavlo Ostrikov (Ukraine)
    Produced by ForeFilms (Ukraine) and Stenola (Belgium)

  • WIND, TALK TO ME* by Stefan Djordjevic (Serbia)
    Produced by Non-Aligned Films (Serbia), Katunga (Serbia), Restart (Croatia) and Spok Film (Slovenia)

  • YEAR OF THE WIDOW* by Veronika Lišková (Czech Republic)
    Produced by Cinémotif Films (Czech Republic), Kerekesfilm (Slovakia) and Pipser (Croatia)

  • ZION* by Nelson Foix (France)
    Produced by De L’autre Côté Du Périph (France) and Kissfilms (France)

  • YOUNG HEARTS* by Anthony Schatteman (Belgium)
    Produced by Polar Bear (Belgium) and Family Affair Films (NL)

* equals first film, ** equals second film

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