The IAS is hosting the Produire au Sud workshop (Festival des 3 Continents)

The Nantes Institute for Advanced Study in partnership with the Festival des 3 Continents hosts every year the workshop « Produire au Sud ». This year, the workshop will take place from Monday 20th to Saturday 25th November.

The workshop

Produire au Sud is a workshop focusing on the outline and structure of coproduction within the film industry.

The workshop aims to familiarize young producers based in Africa, Latin America, and Asia with a variety of important tools and international coproduction techniques by coaching individual projects in development.

It is actually the most important workshop of the year, as it lasts 7 days and invites each year twenty international and europeans professionals as experts. Each year, it takes place in Nantes in the framework of the Festival des 3 Continents and in partnership with the Nantes Institute for Advanced Study (IAS-Nantes).

It is dedicated to any producer from the 3 Continents paired with a director who currently develops a feature fiction fiction project.

The selected projects

The six projects selected to the the 2017 workshop are:

Second Trip (AFGHANISTAN)
by Sadam Wahidi produced by Abdul Tamim Zarabi

Yashar (AZERBAIJAN)
by Elvin Adigozel produced by Teymur Hajiyev

Our Home (BOLIVIA)
by Alejandro Loayza Grisi produced by Santiago Loayza Grisi

The Stranger (CHINA)
by Zhengfan Yang produced by Shengze Zhu

One Summer Day (MYANMAR)
by We Ra Aung produced by Aiess Alonso

Miles from Nowhere (SOUTH AFRICA)
by Samantha Nell produced by Bongiwe Selane

The professional experts

The 2017 workshop will be led by international experienced professionals including :

• Claire Lajoumard (Acrobates Films), producer, France
• Raimond Goebel (Pandora Films), producer, Germany
• Thomas Pibarot (Le Pacte), sales agent/distributor, France
• Delphyne Besse (UDI), international sales agent, France
• Gualberto Ferrari, script consultant, France/Argentina
• Sari Turgeman (ScriptLight), script consultant, France/Israel
• Hans van Helden, postproduction & visual effects supervisor, The Netherlands
• Stefano Tealdi (Stefilm), pitch expert, Italy
• Sara Silveira (Dezenove Som e Imagens), producer, Brazil
• Clément Duboin (Good Fortune Films), producer, France
• Boris Chapelle, Sound Engineer, France
• Gabrielle Béroff-Gallard (La Fabrique des Cinémas du Monde – French Institute), France

The Festival

Every year since 1979 in Nantes, at the end of November, the Festival des 3 Continents offers feature films (fiction and documentaries) from Africa, Latin America and Asia.

This specialisation in geographical terms, a pioneer at the time, does not do justice to the identity of the Festival. It is just one of the elements which gives it life and makes it distinctive, along with passion and curiosity, a taste for discovery and meeting, a love of films from the South and a desire to serve them.

Since it was created, the Festival des 3 Continents has constantly shown a certain flair in its programming. Many tributes have been historical milestones : Raj Kapoor (India) in 1984, Satyajit Ray (India) in 1980, with his complete works in 2006, the New Wave in Argentina as early as 1997 and again in 2002, Melvin Van Peebles (USA) in 1979, Tolomouch Okeev (Kirghistan) in 2002.

The Competition has also had its moments of glory: Souleymane Cissé (Mali) in 1979, Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taïwan) in 1984, Abbas Kiarostami (Iran) in 1987, Wong Kar-wai (Hong-Kong) in 1991, Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan) in 1993, Jia Zhang-ke (China) in 1998 and many more.

The Festival des 3 Continents has been and remains a place for discovery and meeting, for exchanges and passion.

For more information on the Festival