Lou Ye and Lee Isaac Chung among the 15 chosen for Cannes' 2008 Atelier

The very young, and so far, extremely successful Cannes Atelier program (now in its 4th year) has announced the 15 projects as part of the 2008 curriculum that basically invites directors and their producers to pitch their projects, find financing and/or find distribution to world investors in film the film festival dates.

This year's batch includes plenty of first time film projects from short film directors who've canvased the festival circuit but the list also two familiar names with the 6th film project from Lou Ye's (Summer Palace) and the sophomore feature (Lucky Life) from Lee Isaac Chung - perhaps 2007's best new director with Munyurangabo (Liberation Day) making waves on the circuit. 

Here are the selected projects:

Australia – Cure For Serpents by Ben Hackworth (2^nd feature film)
China – Bitch by Lou Ye  (6^th feature film)
Colombia – The Stoplight Society by Ruben Mendoza (1^st feature film)
Estonia – One More Croissant by Ilmar Raag (2^nd feature film)
USA - Here by Braden King (1^st feature film)
USA - Lucky Life by Lee Isaac Chung (2^nd feature film)
France – Qu’un seul tienne, et les autres suivront by Léa Fehner (1^st feature film)
Hungary – Womb by Benedek Fliegauf (3^rd feature film)
Israel – The Policeman by Nadav Lapid (1^st feature film)
Romania - First of all, Felicia bby Razvan Radulescu & Melissa De Raaf (1^st feature film)
Serbia - White, White World by Oleg Novkovic (4^th feature film)
Somalia - Queleh by Abdi Ismael Jama (1^st feature film)

Taiwan / USA - First page Taipei by Arvin Chen (1st feature film)
Uruguay - Punta del Este by Juan Pittaluga (2^nd feature film)
Vietnam - Bi, don’t be afraid by Phan Dang Di (1^st feature film)

QUICK LINKS

HERE,  Lucky Life,  Womb,  Love and Bruises,