PRODUIRE AU SUD workshop - Nantes 2010

2010 November 23rd to 29th

The Produire au Sud workshop took place on November 23rd to 30th 2010 in Nantes (France). 

The selection of the film projects for the Nantes Produire au Sud workshop 2010 is completed.
Six projects have been selected :

ARGENTINA
Germania
directed by Maximiliano Schonfeld
produced by Fernando Brom

The farm animals of a Volga Deutsche family are being decimated by an unknown plague. The Mother and her teenage children: Miguel and Alejandra, prepare themselves to leave the village. During the course of the day, the family will try to bury the dead animals along with a certain dark secret, under the watching eyes of the villagers. Then, the arrival of a group of working men awakes in Alejandra the need of her own plan of salvation: Carlos, one of the workers, is the father of the baby she's secretly carrying. It's being a long day. The priest blesses the house. Miguel sells the farm and the few animals left alive. Slowly, the family dismantle their home. They're about to leave.

BRASIL
Woman of the Father (Mulher do Pai)
directed by Cristiane Oliveira
produced by Aleteia Selonk

Ruben became blind at the age of 21 as a result of a poorly treated disease. Two decades later, he lives the angst of not having anybody to describe life around him. The angst keeps growing until the moment he hears the description of sexual experiences lived by a teenager, which makes long forgotten vital emotions come up. The girl’s name is Nalu. She is 16 years old and is Ruben’s daughter. The conflict between affection and erotism emerges when Nalu’s world, filled with exciting youthful discoveries, clashes with the suffering universe of the widower father, who until then had been incapable of displaying affection.

GHANA
Black Sunshine
directed by Akosua Adoma Owusu
produced by Mirabel Mavis Awuah

Set in a village in Kumasi, Ghana, Black Sunshine tells a story about the life of ayoung albino girl, Aso and her mother, Effie. Born albino, Aso is abandoned by her father, neglected by her mother Effie, and socially rejected in her community. Losing her husband to the birth of an albino, Effie succumbs to despair by painting Aso black. Meanwhile, Effie eventually becomes fascinated with Europeans tourists. Teased by the community for her idiosyncrasies, she discovers the crushing realities of cultural differences.

UGANDA / SOUTH AFRICA
Boda Boda Thieves (Omubbi Boda Boda)
direcetd by Donald Mugisha
produced by James Tayler

Goodman Olem is a northerner who migrated to the capital with his wife Rose and his son Abel in seach of a better life. The fates however were not kind to the family and they have fallen on hard times. When Goodman gets a job as a boda-boda driver, working for Mze, a powerful businessman from his home village he feels like things are maybe finally going his way for a change, until he is robbed of his motorbike by a gang of thieves. We follow Abel and Goodman on their quest through the city in search of the stolen boda boda and in the process gain insight into urban Africa and the lessons a father must pass on to his son.


UZBEKISTAN
Barzagh
directed by Saodat Ismailova
produced by Kamilla Biktimirova

Lutfia, a woman at her late 40, arrives to the city from a distant village in a search of her niece Nigora. The moment she finds her, Lutfia suddenly dies. This death puts the family together causing all the wounds burst loud. No one cannot take a decision if to burry Lutfia in the city where her family is or to take her back to the village, where she lived her married life, where her children are and where her husband’s grave is. Tursun, Lutfia’s younger sister, decides to take Lutfia’s body back to the village against of family’s disapproval. Tursun and her widower niece Nigora, hire a taxi, and start their journey with the body to a distant southern village.

FILIPINO
Anita's last Cha-Cha
(Ang Huling Cha-Cha ni Anita)
directed by Sigrid Andrea Bernardo
produced by Alma Dela Pena

The barrio was never the same again with her arrival. Men flocked, women whispered, and little twelve-year old Anita fell in love. The day the beautiful Pilar returned to the village, she repainted her late parents ancestral house red, and amidst a whirlwind of gossip opened a hilot parlor (massage parlor) on the outskirts of the barrio.Years ago, Pilar had left behind a romance with Anita’s uncle Oscar for a future as a nurse. Pilar left for the city, and the village whispered rumors of her illegal abortion in Manila.

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Here is the official video of the Produire au Sud 2010 seminar.
Thanks to the students of the Nantes University InfoCom Section.

 pas2010.pdf