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I Started This Film With Zero Dollars and It Ended Up on Netflix: 'Paris is Us'

It began with a simple observation. Each year, more than 220 French feature films find their way to theaters but amongst them, very few actually move me. Though France has one of the most productive film industries in Europe, we lost the experimental curiosity and the creative freedom that defines our rich cinematic history. There is a saying, "be the change you want to see in the world." So I decided to make a film outside the box. In 2014, I gathered a small group of talented individuals (actors, a screenwriter, technicians, musicians) and started shooting in realtime in the streets of Paris... without money. Also, without a producer or a script. We had no certainty about what this would become, we just followed our instincts. Read More...

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Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 25 June, 2019

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