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Cannes Doc Jury President Julie Gayet To Star In South African Crime Series From Nagvlug Films & Federation MEAC


Julie Gayet will star in 'Boy Under Water', a South African crime drama series from Nagvlug Films and Federation MEAC.

Julie GayetArnold Jerocki/WireImage The three-time César nominee and President of the doc prize jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival will play an expat single mother who runs a floating bar with her teenage son in a luxury resort town in South Africa ‘s North West province. When the body of a 16-year-old Black boy is found bound and battered on the manicured shores of the local golf estate, their search for a fresh start is upended. Last year, we revealed Federation MEAC is turning South African scribe Deon Meyer’s Last Of Us- like thriller Fever into a TV series.

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