A Beaulieu super 8 camera sits proudly on the edge of a retired fireplace. Hanging from desk lamps, the accreditation badges play like metronomes. Printed on the posterA Prophet (Jacques Audiard), Tahar Rahim scans the ceiling…
In the offices of Grinta Films, rue Michelet in Saint-Étienne, references to sound and image are everywhere.
“We are a collective of directors where everyone has their own identity”
In a corner, there is even an Aaton Super 16 mm camera: “We shot a lot of things with it: short films, commercials…”, assures Kamir Méridja, one of the three forty-somethings at the head of this film company. production founded around ten years ago.
The Ligerian, whose career path includes studying cinema in Lyon, rewinds: “With my brother Sam, a pure self-taught person who started filming very early, we had already created the structure in 2014. In 2017, we rethought the whole project for…
