Mignonnes
French director Maïmouna Doucouré won a Global Filmmaking Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017 for the screenplay of her first feature Mignonnes, which should be ready to premiere in 2019. Produced by Sylvain De Zangroniz through Bien ou Bien Productions, a cast of non-professionals is joined by Maïmouna Gueye (of Rachid Bouchareb’s Belleville Cop, 2018). Doucouré won both a Cesar, a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and was a TIFF favorite for her celebrated 2015 short film, Maman(s).
Gist: Co-written by Alice Winocour, Nathalie Saugeon and Valentine Milville, pre-teenager Amy discovers in her new elementary school a group of dancers called: “Les Mignonnes”. Fascinated, she begins a sexy dance, the twerk, hoping to join their band and escape a family upheaval.
Release Date/Prediction: Doucouré wrapped three months of production in early November 2018. We predict a premiere in Un Certain Regard at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
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