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2015 Champs-Élysées Film Fest: Cartel Land, Franny & Nasty Baby Among Comp Selections

Published on May 1, 2015

Sundance preemed docs Matthew Heineman’s Cartel Land and Michael Beach Nichols & Christopher K. Walker’s Welcome to Leith are going up against Sebastian Silva’s Nasty Baby, Nathan Silver’s Stinking Heaven, Gren Wells’ The Road Within and Andrew Renzi’s Franny in the competition section of the 4th Champs-Élysées Film Festival. Conveniently taking place after a break from Cannes (06.10-06.16) the fest along with American Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland host the U.S in Progress program, the three-day workshop which basically plays hosts to five American indie films in post-production and gets them before Euro distribution, buyer and producer eyes.

A mix of new and old films, the fest will open with Cannes Film Fest Main Comp entry Guillaume Nicloux’s Valley of Love., and special guests include William Friedkin and the Safdie brothers will have a retrospective of their work with a carte blanche. Look for the U.S. in Progress titles to be announced sometime this month.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).