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‘Sukkwan Island’ Director Vladimir de Fontenay on Adapting ‘Legend of a Suicide’ Into a Psychological Sundance Thriller: ‘It’s a Tragedy, but One About Resilience’
Director Vladimir de Fontenay and producer Carole Scotta discuss the journey of adapting, shooting and financing the Sundance movie 'Sukkwan Island.'
The NYU grad was stunned when he was coincidentally contacted by Carole Scotta and Caroline Benjo, the revered French producers duo behind “The Class,” and “The Night of the 12th,” who had bought the rights to “Legend of a Suicide” and thought of him to direct it the bigscreen adaptation. Ultimately, the story of “Sukkwan Island” is universal, de Fontenay says, “regardless of our point of entry which could be being a son, being a father, being a mother, whatever the angle, I get the impression that it’s what’s at stake in family relationships in general, and those bonds are always evolving through life as they are in the film. As such it’s produced by Haut et Court ‘s Scotta, Eliot Khayat (“Santosh”) and Caroline Benjo, and co-produced by Synnøve Hørsdal, Petter Onstad Løkke at Maipo Film, Jacques-Henri Bronckart at Versus Production, Tatjana Kozar, Mike Goodridge’s Good Chaos, and Sydney Oberfeld.
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