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PRODUCTION / FUNDING Belgium

The Malandrin brothers are developing their new film with the support of Wallimpact

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- Wallimage’s new economic development funding line has decided to back two projects in its first ever session

The Malandrin brothers are developing their new film with the support of Wallimpact
Directors Stéphane and Guillaume Malandrin

Launched in the spring, Wallimpact - the brand-new economic development support fund helmed by the Walloon regional investment fund Wallimage – will lend its support to two projects in these early stages of 2021: a fiction feature film and a series.

Guillaume and Stéphane Malandrin are returning to film direction with Maman, papa, l’extraterrestre et moi, a movie narrating the adventures of an 8-year-old boy and an alien who feeds on the energy released by mobile phones. The film is produced by the (Belgian) firm founded by the Malandrin brothers, Altitude 100. Adopted by Brussels, the duo write, direct and produce audiovisual works together. Their filmography is strewn with intriguing titles, starting with I Don’t Care If Tomorrow Never Comes and Hand of the Headless Man [+see also:
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(starring Cécile de France and Ulrich Tukur, among other names), and 2015 saw the release of I’m Dead But I Have Friends [+see also:
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, a decidedly off-the-wall comedy carried by Bouli Lanners, Wim Willaert, Serge Riaboukine and Lyes Salem. The two brothers are also involved in numerous side projects: Guillaume as a producer, notably on Philippe Van Leeuw’s film In Syria [+see also:
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, and Stéphane as a writer (his most recent novel Je suis le fils de Beethoven was published last year).

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Another work on the receiving end of support is the series entitled Testament, which is offered up by Jamie Hannigan, who wrote the screenplay for the Irish-Belgian-American co-production directed by Brendan Muldowney Pilgrimage [+see also:
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. The present work is an adaptation of Xavier Dorison and Alex Alice’s French comic book series The Third Testament and is developed by Benoît Roland on behalf of Wrong Men North (Belgium) and in partnership with Wild Atlantic Pictures (Ireland). The first season of this eight-episode medieval adventure series will unfold in Europe at the beginning of the 14th century – a sombre and cruel period during which a secret carried by a legendary relic has the potential to change the world… or else put an end to it.

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(Translated from French)

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