FRENCH SCREENPLAY READINGS

Short film scripts

3 short film scripts are read in public by Suzanne Jouannet, Quentin Laclotte-Parmentier, Pauline Nuez and Thomas Rio, Talents Adami Cinéma 2023. The artistic direction of the readings is entrusted to Jean-Baptiste Durand, director and scriptwriter. In partnership with Adami and France 2.

Wonderwall
Direction Róisín Burns
Script Róisín Burns and Anna Cohen Yanay
Production Barberousse Films

Northern England, August 1995. Siobhan, 8, and her older brother Rory are waiting for just one thing: to find out whether Oasis or Blur will win the Britpop battle tonight. But Siobhan defies her brother and escapes, finding herself alone in the night. Determined to find a way to watch the battle of the century on television, she wanders the city and plunges into the strange world of adults.

English by birth, Róisín Burns grew up in Liverpool, lulled by the rhythm of Merseybeat, the songs of football fans and the waves of the Irish Sea. It was while she was at Paris 1 that she made Passing Tides, a short documentary pre-bought by France 3 in partnership with Premiers Plans. The film was shown at several festivals in France and abroad. In 2021, she joined the screenwriting workshop at La Fémis, where she began writing her first feature. At the same time, she developed her first fiction short, Wonderwall. Produced by Barberousse Films, Wonderwall won the Audience Award and the Moulin d'Andé’s Coup de Coeur Award at the Côté Court festival (June 2023). It is also the winner of the CLOS residency (FIFIB 2022) and has received writing support from the Île-de-France region.

Born in San Francisco, Anna Cohen-Yanay is a screenwriter and director living and working in Paris. A graduate of the University of Paris VIII, their short film Rambam Streety won the Prix Serge Daney in 2018. They co-wrote, among others, Frost by Sharunas Bartas (Directors’ Fortnight 2017) and Swan dans le centre by Iris Chassaigne (Critics’ Week 2022). They collaborated on the screenplay and acted in Que quelque chose vienne by Mathilde Girard, awarded the Georges de Beauregard National Prize at the FID Marseille 2023. Anna is currently co-writing the short films Mystery Ferry with Iris Chassaigne and Wonderwall with Róisín Burns.

Golub
Direction and script Milos Petrovitch
Production Yukunkun Productions

For a short time, young Milan has been living alone with a father who doesn’t take care of him, preferring to spend time breeding pigeons. With a major pigeon competition just days away, their relationship has never been so strained.

Born in Serbia during the Yugoslav war, Milos Petrovitch arrived in France at the age of 11. Both school and the cinema played a decisive role during those years, teaching him a language and helping him to integrate. After taking his baccalaureate in literature, he began a degree in philosophy in Toulouse, but returned to Aubervilliers to train as a scriptwriter at Luc Besson’s École de la Cité. After working for a long time on various film projects for associations (OMJA) or produced films (Nouvelle Toile), he is now looking to tell his own stories…

Les Saintes
Direction and script Mélissandre Carrasco
Production Les Films des Turbulentes

Marguerite is 16 and dreams of becoming an Instagram influencer. She meets up with Louis, who she met on social media, to spend the holidays with him and his friends. It’s summer, it’s hot, they’re having fun, Marguerite is in love and wants to have the best summer of her life.

After studying literature and film, Mélissandre Carrasco joined the editing section of CinéFabrique in 2016. She has completed several projects, including her graduation film En apnée, which premiered at the Écrans Mixtes festival in 2020. She was also assistant editor on Tout s’est bien passé (Everything Went Fine) by François Ozon and L’Innocent (The Innocent) by Louis Garrel. She then joined the CinéFabrique incubator. Her short film Contre le silence was selected for the Off-Courts festival in Trouville. She is currently developing several short films with Les Films des Turbulents, as well as directing music videos for artists.

Aristic direction of the readings

Born in 1985, Jean-Baptiste Durand made his first short film, L'Amour sans le sexe, for his graduation from the Beaux-Arts. He went on to work for a time as a technician (grip, set designer, assistant director) and as an actor. He also directed some rap videos and continued drawing. In 2014, his short film Il venait de Roumanie, was selected for several festivals. He then directed Même les choses invisibles se cachent (2016). At the Estival Premiers Plans in 2021, he read the screenplay of his first feature film, Chien de la casse (Junkyard Dog), with Anaïs Bertrand and Raphaël Quenard. The film was selected for the 2023 Festival, where it won the Audience Award.