The lab is addressed to both emerging and more experienced filmmakers, French and international projects. 

1st module

Development Lab

Module & structure

The Development Lab selects 4 projects, which will have the chance to attend two residential workshops, each lasting four full working days, and 1 industry event.

Full Circle Lab Nouvelle-Aquitaine is open to teams of scriptwriter/director and producer. Both of them will attend the workshops.

An individual follow-up

During the last months of the program, projects are followed individually.

According to their needs, a participation to a specific co-production forum or film industry event will be suggested and facilitated, either in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, in France or internationally.

Module & structure

The First Cut Lab is open to the filmmaker, producer and editor of the project and it takes place online.

The exact dates of the workshop are chosen in agreement with the selected teams to best answer the needs of their films. The workshop takes place during the period from May 29^th to October 31^st 2023.

Each film is accompanied by First Cut Lab for a period of roughly 3 weeks, even though the core of the Lab takes place over two consecutive days.

Tools provided for future

After the workshop, the film team receives a memo of the discussions and all suggestions, to serve as a road map in the further editing.

Tailor-made chosen advisors 

The core is an in-depth discussion where the filmmakers get to test their questions and dilemmas with carefully chosen film industry experts.

An editor consultant helps the teams throughout the whole process with preparatory and follow-up meetings.

For more details

First Cut Lab is an international initiative, regularly joining Full Circle Lab for unique collaborations.

To know more about this module, discover all the information here.

My Mother, the Monster (Feature Film) by Olivér Rudolf

Directed by: Olivér Rudolf
Produced by: Genovéva Petrovits (Kino Alfa) – Barnabas Tóth-Justh (Filmpartners)
Countries of production: Hungary – France
Co-Producer: Florent Coulon (Vraivrai Films) 

Synopsis: Éva is an unhappy mother and wife, who gets tired of feeling insignificant. She finds a new identity behind a scary monster mask which liberates her. She never ever wants to remove it and it becomes her own rebellion. As her running amok begins, her teenage daughter is completely left alone.

Betty’s Dream (Animation Feature) by Liam Engels

Directed by: Liam Engels
Produced by: Charlotte De La Gournerie (Sun Creature)
Countries of production: France – Denmark

Synopsis: Betty and her twin brother, Sami, who suffers from a severe disability, rebuild their relationship after they meet in a dream and communicate for the first time in years. Seen through the eyes of a teenager who struggles to be affectionate, the film explores how a person can transform their behavior after journeying deep into the center of their mind.

Sang craché des lèvres belles (Feature Film) by Jean Charles Hue

Directed by: Jean Charles Hue
Produced by: Cédric Walter (The Dark)
Country of production: France

Synopsis: Marta, who narrowly escaped a settling of scores with her boyfriend Alex, takes refuge in the Pyrenees where she reunites with her parents, former far-left terrorists who have just been released from prison. Together, they embark on a search for their war treasure.

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Matthieu Darras

CEO of Tatino Films and Co-Head of the program

Matthieu Darras designs and leads several programs of film/talent development and consultancy that are active worldwide: the First Cut Lab, the Pop Up Film Residency, and the Full Circle Lab. Previously, he founded and directed the European Network of Young Cinema NISI MASA, wrote for the film magazine Positif, and was the artistic director of the TorinoFilmLab.

He also worked for major film festivals in Europe: as a programmer for the Cannes Critics’ Week, as a consultant for the Venice Film Festival, and as a delegate for the San Sebastian Film Festival.
He also directed the Bratislava Film Festival.

Myriam Sassine

Co-Head of the program and Producer Consultant 

Myriam Sassine joined Abbout Productions producing several features and documentaries such as Costa Brava, Lebanon by Mounia Akl (Venice Film Festival Official Selection / TIFF 2021), 1982 by Oualid Mouaness (TIFF 2019) and Panoptic by Rana Eid (Locarno 2017).

From 2016 to 2020, she was the COO of Schortcut Films dedicated to co-producing international films. In 2016, she cofounded Maskoon Fantastic Film Festival, the first and only genre film festival in the Middle East.

Since 2021, she’s the project manager of Beirut Cinema Platform, Beirut DC’s coproduction platform. Myriam is an alumni of EAVE Producer’s Workshop (2019) and Film Independent Producing Lab (2019).

Philippe Barrière

Script and Editing Consultant

Born in 1978, Philippe Barrière has a Masters in philosophy and formal logic at La Sorbonne University.
Script consulting is way for him to combine his interest for analysis and his passion for cinema.

Over the past years, Philippe Barrière has had several relevant experiences in the field of script consulting such as head of the development for Mille et une Productions or, since 2010, as an independent script consultant.

He is notably the co-author with Rubaiyat Hossain of Made in Bangladesh (Toronto 2019). He teaches scriptwriting in different film schools in Paris, and works on several script development workshops, such as La Scénaristerie, Cannes Talent Unlimited and Le Groupe Ouest.

Alexis Hofmann

Industry consultant

Alexis Hofmann is graduate in Modern Literature and in Distribution at La Fémis.

After working for Centre National de la Cinematographie (CNC), he joined HAUT ET COURT, and then MEMENTO FILMS, working in the booking and marketing departments for each.

He joined BAC FILMS in 2006, as a booker and then became marketing project manager for the company.
Alexis now oversees acquisitions for BAC FILMS.

Alca, the cultural agency for publishing and cinema in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, supports creation and production of fiction, animation and documentary films through fundings, artists-in-residence program, partnerships with Labs and international market and a regional film commission.

It also stands by film professionals from the region for national and international film festivals, coproduction events and to support distribution and promotion.