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Table Ronde "Le producteur-trice est-il/elle un-e artiste ?" - Licorne Festival

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The Film and Producers’ Festival in Fontenay-le-Comte

The anatomy of a collaborative creation Writer, director, producer, editor, composer: how does a film become a film? A film is never made on its own. It is born from a script, an intuition, a desire. The producer chooses to support it and provides the means for it to come into being. The director transforms it into images. Then comes another moment, less visible yet all the more decisive: the moment when the filmed material truly becomes the film that the audience will experience. The editing suite is precisely this turning point. The director arrives there with the footage they have shot. The editor builds, deconstructs, seeks a rhythm, shifts meaning. The producer, for their part, sees the film through the lens of the script they have been supporting since the outset – the lens of its initial promise, but also that of its budget and its future encounter with the audience. Then the music enters the picture. It does more than simply accompany the images: it can evoke an emotion, quicken the pace, create tension, and reveal what the film has not yet said. This round-table discussion offers an insight into the practical process of filmmaking through the eyes of those who are actually involved in it. To what extent does a producer get involved in the writing, filming or editing? Does the editor work primarily for the director, for the film, or also for the producer? Who decides that a scene must be cut? Can music save a sequence? Can it also undermine it? And what happens when the director and producer no longer quite see the same film? One question sums up the spirit of this discussion: Can a producer save a film during editing? Can they also ruin it? Around the table: producers, directors, screenwriters, editors and composers. A conversation about what isn’t seen on screen, yet is what makes cinema what it is. FRIDAY 25 SEPTEMBER – 5.30 pm - Venue: Meeting room, Vendée Marais Poitevin Tourist Office, Place de Verdun, 85200 Fontenay-le-Comte - Duration: 2 hours - Audience: adults - Limited places – booking essential at the Tourist Office - Venue accessible to people with reduced mobility FURTHER INFORMATION: - Doors open 15 minutes before the start of the talk - Online ticket sales close at 12.30 pm on the day - Tickets available at the venue subject to availability Another round-table discussion on Saturday 26 September at 4 pm: “Turning a region into a film location”