Author Archive

A Sense of History (Mike Leigh – United Kingdom, 1992)     The term black humor appeared in Huysmans’ work and was later coined by André Breton, whose Anthology of Black Humor was banned by the Vichy Regime in 1940. But what does the expression actually reflect?   At times where seeing political correctness everywhere if often a reflex for new conformists, we must […]

Un Juego de Niños by Jacques Toulemonde Vidal (France, Colombia – 2010)     Colombian short films are full of promises that the audience will discover in Clermont-Ferrand with 6 programmes of films. In 2008, Como Todo el Mundo, by Colombian director Franco Lolli, won a Grand Prize in Clermont-Ferrand. This marked the beginning of a new era for Colombian cinema, that will gradually start […]

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    Takami Productions is celebrating thirteen years. Thirteen years discovering, exploring, meeting, helping to bring to light filmmakers and their films, different worlds and new sensibilities. We are  very pleased to have the opportunity this year at Clermont-Ferrand to offer a little of what makes us who we are: films that we’ve produced and that reflect our evolution, and films that have touched […]

Film director, scriptwriter, producer     Philippe Faucon was born in Morocco in 1958. He has written, directed, and produced a dozen films, in every format.   This man of cinema started out directed television films for Arte and France Televison. Among them was Sabine, which was later released in cinemas. Samia, which was his second feature, was selected at the Venice Film Festival […]

Painter, illustrator   Riccardo Guasco is an Italian painter and illustrator based in Wales. He was born in 1975.       He researches the lightness of form and color of the heat and he does it with a few colors and simple lines. He loves old posters of the 30s, Picasso, Depero, Feininger, Russian suprematism, cubism and heroic cycling of old times.   […]

Film director, actor, scriptwriter, producer, writer   Patrick Wang was born in 1976 in houston, Texas, to Taïwanese parents. He is graduated from the Massachusetts Intitute of Technology with a degree in economics and a concentration in music and theatre arts.         In 2011 he realized his first film, In The Family, which he wrote, produced, realized and in which he […]

Film director, screenwriter     Born in tunis in 1984, Leyla Bouzid moved to Paris in 2003 to study French litterature at the Sorbonne. Then, she was accepted to the Fémis in the Film Direction Department.       Her thesis film, Mkhobbi Fi Kobba was directed in Tunisia, just a few months before the revolution. He was screened to the national competition in […]

Film director, actress     After studying applied arts and working as a designer, Émilie Brisavoine has made drawings of the world, of women, and of dogs.     She then appeared as an actress in the film La Bataile de Solférino by Justine Triet, followed by her performance in Peine Perdue by Arthur Harari. This film was screened in the national competition of […]

Singer, musician, composer     Just shy of her 26th birthday, Brazilian cellist and songwriter Dom La Nena has learned to live in motion. Born Dominique Pinto in the coastal city of Porto Alegre, she spent her childhood split between her hometown and Paris, studying cello and piano.     © Jeremiah     She was 13 when she moved to Buenos Aires where […]