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Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid [pictured] is gearing up for the shoot of his long-gestating Paris-set feature Synonyms in Paris this autumn with emerging compatriot actor Tom Mercier in the lead role.
“It will film this November and December,” said lead producer Saïd Ben Saïd of Paris-based Sbs Productions.
Ben Saïd is at Jerusalem Film Festival as a member of the Israeli Feature Competition jury and with Philippe Garrel’s Lover For A Day, which is playing in the International Competition.
He took over as lead producer of the project from Anne-Dominique Toussaint of Les Films des Tournelles in late 2016.
“We’re friends, it was an amicable deal. Anne-Dominique was tied up in other projects so I took over the production,” explained Ben Saïd, who will also handle international sales and French distribution.
The project, which originally had the working title Micro Robert after the...
Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid [pictured] is gearing up for the shoot of his long-gestating Paris-set feature Synonyms in Paris this autumn with emerging compatriot actor Tom Mercier in the lead role.
“It will film this November and December,” said lead producer Saïd Ben Saïd of Paris-based Sbs Productions.
Ben Saïd is at Jerusalem Film Festival as a member of the Israeli Feature Competition jury and with Philippe Garrel’s Lover For A Day, which is playing in the International Competition.
He took over as lead producer of the project from Anne-Dominique Toussaint of Les Films des Tournelles in late 2016.
“We’re friends, it was an amicable deal. Anne-Dominique was tied up in other projects so I took over the production,” explained Ben Saïd, who will also handle international sales and French distribution.
The project, which originally had the working title Micro Robert after the...
- 7/17/2017
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