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PARTNERS Angers Workshops receive support from With the support of Angers Workshops would like to thank Université Angevine du Temps Libre Abbaye de Fontevraud Andégave communication Bouvet Ladubay Bureau d’Accu eil des Tournages (Agence régionale) Centre Angevin des Ressources Associatives de la Ville d’Angers Cinéma Parlant Evolis Card Printer Hexa Repro Hôtel Mercure Angers Centre Mission AnCRE (ville d’Angers) Morgan View Le Quai - forum des arts vivants Université Catholique de l'Ouest (ISCEA) Angers Workshops | 9 th édition | 24-31 August 2013 2

PRESENTATION 2012 residents , with Raphaël Nadjari, Olivier Ducastel, 2011 residents 2011 , with Jeanne Moreau, Claude-Éric Poiroux and Delphine Gleize Claude-Éric Poiroux and Yves-Gérard Branger THE 9TH EDITION OF THE ATELIERS D'ANGERS will welcoming 7 young European directors. Jeanne Moreau, the founder of the Ateliers with Claude-Éric Poiroux, is in charge of the artistic direction. The director Olivier Ducastel ( Jeanne et le Garçon formidable …) will run the workshops, accompanied by professionals from the world of film, including Lionel Baier ( Un autre homme , Jury member at the Premiers Plans Festival 2013), François Pirot (a resident at the Angers Workshops 2008 with his screenplay Mobile Home ), Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza (residents at the Angers Workshops 2010 and winners of Cannes Critics' Week for Salvo ), screenwriter Razvan Radulescu ( The Death of Mr. Lazarescu ), Justine Triet ( La Bataille de Solférino ), Emmanuel Chaumet, producer. The 7 residents are Antti-Heikki Pesonen (Finland), Clément Cogitore, Elsa Diringer, Laurent Larivière (France), Laura Bispuri (Italy), Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen (Norway), Anca-Miruna Lazarescu (Romania-Germany). In parallel, Premiers Plans will also have an initiation and training program for professionals or future professionals, teachers, film students or film lovers. CREATED IN 2005, THE ANGERS WORKSHOPS are directed toward young European filmmakers with one or two short films to their credit and a first feature film in the works. During 5 days, they will be taught by recognized professionals from the world of cinema. This year, the focus will be on staging, working with actors, frame, screenplay and production. The Workshops will offer them: . SCREENINGS and analyses of film from the past and present. . TRAINING with established filmmakers and technicians who will bring to the classroom their professional experience and methods. . DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR PERSONAL PROJECTS under the guidance of the attending instructors, with emphasis on specific questions concerning directing, working with actors, production... Angers Workshops | 9 th édition | 24-31 August 2013 3

2013 RESIDENTS FINLAND ANTTI HEIKKI PESONEN PROJECT : HIT THE WALL Antti Heikki Pesonen originates from Korso, a small suburb near Helsinki. He studied directing at the ELO Helsinki Film School. He sometimes finds humor in the dark stuff of life and considers writing a biography about himself in the third person to be sort of funny - in a good way. His thesis film from ELO Helsinki film school, So it Goes , received the audience- and students of Angers awards this year in the Angers First Film Festival. SYNOPSIS A dark comedy about a woman who tries to save her teenage daughter with the help of her alcoholic dad, immature ex-boyfriend and spooky rabbits that may or may not be vengeful. FRANCE CLÉMENT COGITORE PROJECT : LE FRONT DE WAKHAN Cogitore Clement was born in 1983 in Colmar. After studying at the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Strasbourg and at Le Fresnoy, Clément Cogitore developed an artistic practice halfway between cinema and contemporary art. Combining film, video, installations and photographs, his work questions the modalities of cohabitation of men with their images. There is often question of ritual, collective memory, figuration of the sacred as well as a particular idea of the permeability of worlds. He was in Angers in 2007 with his film Chroniques in the Free Form selection. He came back in 2012 to present Parmi nous in Competition of the French First Short Films. SYNOPSIS Afghanistan 2013. While troops are on the verge of withdrawal, Captain Antarès Bonassieu and his section are assigned a control and surveillance mission in a remote valley of the Wakhan on the Pakistan border. Despite their determination, Antarès and his men gradually lose control of what is supposedly a calm sector. Until one September night, soldiers in the valley begin to mysteriously disappear. FRANCE ELSA DIRINGER PROJECT : TERRAIN VAGUE Born in Strasbourg in 1982, she grew up in Montpellier. After a master degree of Direction at Paris 8 University, which enables her to direct her first film (a documentary on footbal women player in Evry), she turns to fiction. She directed Ada (2008), C’est à Dieu qu’il faut le dire (2010) and L’Instant présent (2012). In parallel, she animates workshops with pupils in 19th district of Paris, in the frame of a Webserie, called Demain j’lui dis. Since the beginning, this work with young people and « non professionals » enriches her films’ writting. SYNOPSIS Victim of an assault, Nassim, 16-year old tries to start over in another place. There, he falls in love with Luna, without knowing that she is involved in the story. ITALY LAURA BISPURI PROJECT : VIERGE SOUS SERMENT Gratuated in cinema from La Sapienza university, Laura Bispuri was selected by producer Domenico Procacci to follow the Fandango Lab Workshop, where she followed classes of famous italian directors, such as Matteo Garrone, Paolo Sorrentino, etc. With her short Passing Time , she won the David Donatello award of Best short film in 2010. Passing Time was also selected in the programme Nuits en or du court métrage of Césars Academy. Biondina was produced by the Italian bank group Banca Intesa, and directed with the support of Gabriele Salvatores. In 2011, Italian critics gave to Laura a Silver Nastro « Emerging Talent of the year ». SYNOPSIS A man with an androgynous look arrives in Milan, from albanian mountains, where he spent a long time as a sworn virgin, according to an old local tradition. Angers Workshops | 9 th édition | 24-31 August 2013 4