On paper, the subject discussed was not promising, he convinced on the screen. 1”30, the duration of the clip on his grandfather. It didn’t take Gaspard Liberman any longer to convince the Cannes Film Festival jury to award him a Clap d’or last year. He is gifted, the Mosellan who made his first “real” classes in the cinema sector at the Poincaré high school in Nancy. Determined, above all, and passionate since college. “I was part of a bit of a rowdy gang and one day, as a punishment, we were given a whole bunch of little risky driving videos to do and I had a blast doing that!” “
In fact of punishment it is a revelation which the teenager experienced who never let go of the camera or that “rock” way he has of holding it, like the guitarists who strum the strings before even playing. learn to read notes.
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Six months to shoot and edit his film
Like a springboard, its reward in Cannes is worth to the student of Performing Arts in Metz, to be eligible for a grant from the CNC Talent system, the amount of which can reach up to € 30,000 if necessary. And the need is there now and it is great.
To the point that Gaspard, – who will be fixed in mid-December on the amount that will be granted to him – already knows that, “even if he obtains the maximum”, he will need more to finance the production of a medium-length film of thirty minutes. So he launched an online kitty to supplement the budget of a project that he has 6 months to complete. “Beyond 6 months, you lose the scholarship …”
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A priori the subject still seems not very salesy. The title ? “The Suicides”. The pitch? “Within a group of high school students, a young person commits suicide and a whole class vacillates in the face of a drama that is experienced intimately and collectively. In full application of Parcoursup, more lost than ever, the protagonists see their friendship endangered. »But that promises on the screen.
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“We worked a lot on the storyboard with the actors Jules Porer (“ Madre ”by Rodrigo Sorogoyan,“ Play ”by Anthony Marciano and Max Boulbil) whom I approached with guts and Emma Jaubert (“ Adolescentes ”, Sébastien Lifshitz) whom I met in Cannes. “
The film already has the support of Imag’Est and the National Union for Suicide Prevention. He lacks that of the general public, on a cause that touches everyone intimately and collectively. His medium-length film wants to demonstrate it on the screen and not just on paper.
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