MARRAKECH — “Astrakan” director David Depesseville is following on from his debut feature, which plays in man competition at the Marrakech Film Festival, with a second film looking…
Although he’s keeping most specific details under wraps, he’s written the script for his follow-up film, which he will also direct. Carole Chassaing is producing. , based on the true story of a child that was murdered in France in 2005, followed by a trial in 2015. Depesseville is interested in how the story was told in France.On a slightly lighter note, scheduled to shoot next autumn is a short film about three brothers reunited by their mothers’ death called “Le Tremblement.
His debut feature tells the story of an orphan sent to live in the Morvan region of France with a family paid to take care of him.“Morvan was the department in France that received orphans from the rest of France,” he explains. “Poor families were paid to take in orphans. The point of departure for this film is the transaction between money and feelings. The families needed money. The orphans wanted to belong to a family.
It’s also part of his own family history. His grandfather was an orphan that went on to have a large family. “I carry part of his history with me,” he added. “In 2015, I discovered a support-system for writers at the CNC. My first producer, unfortunately, then blocked the rights for a couple of years, but with my current producer I found the money,” he said.
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