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FUNDING Belgium

Ben Stassen, Nabil Ben Yadir and Christophe Hermans to receive funding from Wallimage

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- As part of its 92nd session, Wallimage is investing €1.5 million in nine projects, including three Belgian feature films

Ben Stassen, Nabil Ben Yadir and Christophe Hermans to receive funding from Wallimage
Director Ben Stassen

In its last round of funding in 2018, Wallimage Coproductions has chosen to support three new French-speaking Belgian films: The Son of Bigfoot 2, the sequel to the film by Ben Stassen and Jérémie Degruson, The Hive [+see also:
film review
interview: Christophe Hermans
film profile
]
, Christophe Hermans' first feature film, and Animals [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Nabil Ben Yadir
film profile
]
, the new film by Nabil Ben Yadir.

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Bigfoot Family [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ben Stassen
film profile
]
(working title: The Son of Bigfoot 2) is the sequel to The Son of Bigfoot [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ben Stassen
film profile
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, released in 2017, which attracted more than eight million viewers worldwide. The film is an nWave production, the company created by Ben Stassen a few years ago, a leading 3D animation outfit in the European and global markets. Ben Stassen will also be releasing his latest film in April, The Queen's Corgi [+see also:
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interview: Ben Stassen
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]
, which is hotly anticipated.

Christophe Hermans has distinguished himself thus far with various short films and documentaries. His first feature, The Hive, stars the young actress Sophie Breyer, discovered in the TV series La Trêve, and the French actress Ludivine Sagnier. The film was produced by Frakas.

Wallimage will also be supporting Nabil Ben Yadir's new film (Les Barons [+see also:
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Interview with director and actress of…
interview: Nabil Ben Yadir
film profile
]
, La Marche [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Nabil Ben Yadir
film profile
]
, Blind Spot [+see also:
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interview: Nabil Ben Yadir
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). It tackles a very painful subject, the murder of a young man in Liege, tortured overnight by four men simply because he was gay. The title of the film is taken from a sentence pronounced during the torturers' trial: "We are not animals!” The film will be produced by 10:80, the outfit founded by the director and producer Benoît Roland (Wrong Men), who has also previously worked on Patser [+see also:
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interview: Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fal…
interview: Matteo Simoni
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]
by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, and Lukas [+see also:
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by Julien Leclercq.

Wallimage has allocated funding to three European genre films: The Shift [+see also:
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interview: Alessandro Tonda
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by Alessandro Tonda, a co-production between Tarantula and the Italian company Notorious Pictures, The Sound of Philadelphia [+see also:
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byJérémie Guez (the screenwriter of Lukas),starring Matthias Schoenaerts and Garrett Hedlund, co-produced in Belgium by Gapbusters, produced by Killer Films in the USA and by Cheyenne Films in France, and Bitten [+see also:
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interview: Romain de Saint-Blanquat
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by Romain de Saint-Blanquat, co-produced by Velvet Films in Belgium and produced by Easy Tiger in France.

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(Translated from French)

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