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Cannes Critics’ Week Selects Eight Filmmakers for Its Feature Development Program, Next Step (EXCLUSIVE)
Cannes Critics’ Week has unveiled the filmmakers of its upcoming Next Step, a feature development programme whose alumni include Molly Manning Walker.
In 2025, seven new features developed at Next Step are expected to roll out at major festivals, notably Morad Mostafa’s “Aisha Can’t Fly Away Anymore” which won Venice’s industry prize, Final Cut, for a film in post production. Past recipients include Manning Walker (“How to Have Sex”), Mykko Myllylathi (“The Woodcutter’s Story”) and Chinese director Zou Jing whose feature project “A Girl Unknown” was recently boarded by Arte France. Critics’ Week has also launched in 2023 a spinoff program called Next Step II, focused on rewriting and score composition, in partnership with the orgs Sacem, CNC and Fabrica Providenza in Corsica.
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