Projects
In development
Anatomy of a Lie (ov Anatomie d'un mensonge)
Freely inspired by the life of Genevieve Jeanson (Feature - French)
In the early 1990s, a young and charismatic bicycle racer triggers the attention of the Quebec bicycle racing fans. She performs so brilliantly that she is soon encouraged to aim for the World Junior Road Race. Her father finds her a personal trainer and the ex-athlete and the young girl immediately connect. Both are extremely ambitious and share a rare capacity to suffer under most severe and painful training methods. Their collaboration is intense and fruitful. A year later, suffering from extreme fatigue and anemia, the young champion is placed in front of the ultimate dilemma:to stop racing for many months or take EPO. She chooses to take the illegal substance. Follows a ten-year carreer marked by adulation and glory,then by doubts and suspicions and in the end,forever tarnished by lies and deception.
- Written by Sophie Lorain and Catherine Léger
- Directed by Alexis Durand-Brault
- Writing stage
Pranks (ov Les coups)
(Feature - French)
Summer of 1977. A country village. PAT (14) and MIKE (13) two youngoutsiders horror film buffs have developed an expertise in macabre set-ups. Their tricks are so well achieved that they are literarily frightening their neighbourhood. Come one day when real dirty murders starts to happen close-by. They become suspected by the police and they are using rough interrogation technics on the kids including prohibition of seeing each other. But, they will see each other in the hiding, and they will cross paths with the murderer...
- Written and directed by Ian Lauzon
- Writing stage
Bulle
(Feature - French)
At 31, Bulle has chosen to work as an attendant to the patients of the geriatric aisle of an urban hospital. Soft and vulnerable but original and ironical our young beauty does not seem to believe that her charms are genuine. Finding Mr Nice Guy is important to her, but where could he be? Well there is suddenly not one prospect, but four that are closing on her and amongst them an older one that is her unknown father! Built like a suspense we will follow this new father whose task is to discover his daughter personality and his quest to master fatherhood with a grownup offspring. Accepting will be their mutual challenge and we will be witness to Bulle rebirth masking the scars left by fatherless childhood. Set in the hospital where comprehension and empathy are not supposed to be part of her work description, she will show us the realistic and human side of her world where old age rhyme with sorrow but also with tenderness. Bulle will show that despite a difficultpast, it is better to look at the present with humour even in the most awkward moments.
Adapted for the screen from "Dans sa bulle" Suzanne Myre's novel published by the Éditions Marchand de feuilles.
- Written by Francine Tougas
- Writing stage
Tokyo Fiancee
(Feature - French)
A young woman from Belgium comes back to Japan where she was born and lived up to her fifth year. Amélie is giving private French lessons and her first student Rinri becomes her lover. He will proudly introduce her to his friends, parents and show her the beauties of his country. Their encounters and visits are funny, unusual even marvellous. She is discovering Japan's inner culture and diving right in it with passion. But Rinri's family do not see this relation as ideal... she is not Japanese. But that is not an issue for him, he wants to marry her. Amélie does not understand Rinri's will, she is too busy living her young age, climbing mountains, discovering Japanese baths and eating okonomiakis. But one night, while climbing the mountain she gets caught by a snow storm which will bring her close to the end. When she comes down the next day, she is another person, enlightenment has struck her. The moult begin and her new self his coming to life, a new self that will make her into a full flesh writer and a free mind.
Adapted for the screen from "Ni d'Eve ni d'Adam" Amélie Nothomb's novel published by the Éditions Albin Michel.
A Belgium (Versus Productions), France (Chic Films) and Canada (Forum Films) Coproduction. To be shooted in Japan and Belgium
- Writtenand directed by Stefan Liberski
- Financing stage / Shooting is scheduled for October 2012
A sole man (ov Comme un seul homme)
(Feature - French)
Paul Parent's life cannot be more ordinary. But everything changes the day that he witnesses a child's rapt and he is instrumental in setting free the poor kid from the runaway pedophile. Instantly he is on the newscast, welcomed by his friend and colleagues in a new light and his daily routine is changed forever... Strong with this new hero jacket he pushes to invite the newly immigrant child and his mother to stay whit him at his home while an understaffed and overworked police force is loosely trying to find the molester. The child and his mother are nervous; the deviant is still free and could come back. Paul takes on to find the man, worker during the day, father like after hours, one of his vanished dreams and pseudo detective during the night, he will fail to all. From a onetime hero he becomes a loser to the eyes of his close ones and coworkers up to the moment where the essence of his ordinary existence will be the source of his courage and determination.
- Co-written by Sophie Lorain et Alexis Durand-Brault
- To be co-directed by Sophie Lorain and Alexis Durand-Brault
- Writing stage