“We need several police officers, a space that can be converted into a police station, a cell, a bar…” Alex, assistant director of the Belgian team around Olivier Panier, lists his requests. The residents are listening. If they can help, it is with pleasure. They have adopted this festival and ‘expect every year. It’s the DNA of the Carpentras fait son cinema festival.
For five years, the event, created by the journalist Patrick Chêne, converted into a winemaker for several years and organizer of this short film competition, has only existence and consistency if it is nourished by multiple collaborations local. “We highlight the city with scenes filmed only in Carpentras and its nearby countryside and we ensure that residents and merchants take ownership of this festival by participating as much as possible.“, the founder likes to repeat. Hence the necessity and essential 100% local casting, again imagined by the winemaker Patrick Chêne, and reserved for Tuesday evening for Carpentrassiens.
The residents help the teams find them an accessory, a setting, a special vehicle and come forward to offer themselves as extras or a small role. Or even a main role. The interpretations of the Carpentrassians Jean-Pierre Combes in Mr Lucien and Magaly Vigneron in Carpentraadults are still in the minds of the organizing team. The two amateur actors had delighted not only the jury but also the public during previous editions. Olivier Panier was still looking for “his” annoying police commander on Tuesday evening, very late, and Freddie Sage was banking on casting to find his second main role, a 30-40 year old woman who would play opposite a second actress, a character who came also from another dimension…
Large chandeliers, belfry, retro house
If Anthony Marzin’s team already has its two scammers, the Strasbourg director demanded on the sound microphone “restaurant with large chandeliers“with a preference for”inside Circle 85“and sought the conveniences to be able to”access the belfry“. A sigh of relief for the female team around Claire Sauvin (Paris) who had set their sights on the music store, rue Porte de Monteux, which will be open for filming this May 1. Meanwhile, the young director Louis Faury (Paris) was still looking for a “old bourgeois house, a bit retro” for his dramatic film. He will find it quickly in the end. A casting which, half an hour before the authorization of the first clap, seemed conclusive for all the teams even if the playground near the city center Freddie Sage was still missing.
At 8 p.m., the start was given by the mayor, in a light rain. “It is in constraint that creativity is born“, confided, always optimistic Patrick Chêne. “I have confidence, we have quality teams with very good spirit.“
Engine ! The countdown has started. Saturday morning, the teams will submit their “copy” of 8 minutes and 40 seconds. Revelations the same evening at the Cabaret…
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