{"id":23358,"date":"2023-01-12T13:26:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T13:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/?post_type=press&#038;p=23358"},"modified":"2023-01-12T13:26:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T13:26:04","slug":"the-red-sea-international-film-festival-announces-support-of-maiwenns-upcoming-period-drama-jeanne-du-barry","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/press\/the-red-sea-international-film-festival-announces-support-of-maiwenns-upcoming-period-drama-jeanne-du-barry\/","title":{"rendered":"The Red Sea International Film Festival Announces Support Of Ma\u00efwenn\u2019s Upcoming Period Drama \u2018Jeanne Du Barry\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; color: #1e2d1e; background: white;\">The Red Sea International Film Festival (Red Sea IFF) today announced through the Red Sea film Foundation, they are backing the upcoming French period drama \u2018Jeanne du Barry\u2019 directed, co-written and featuring French actress and filmmaker Ma\u00efwenn. The film stars Johnny Depp as 18th century French King Louis XV, with Ma\u00efwenn in playing the role of the titular courtesan, Madame du Barry.<b><i><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; color: #1e2d1e; background: white;\">\u2018Jeanne du Barry\u2019 also stars Pierre Richard,Benjamin Lavernhe, No\u00e9mie Lvovsky, Melvil Poupaud, India Hair and Pascal Greggory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; color: #1e2d1e; background: white;\">Since 2019, the Red Sea film Foundation has supported the development, production, and post-production of 170 films from the Arab world and Africa. \u2018Jeanne du Barry\u2019 is the Red Sea IFF\u2019s first international co-production with France and demonstrates the Festival\u2019s ongoing mission to support distinctive filmmaking and champion visionary female talent both on and behind the camera from around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; color: #1e2d1e; background: white;\">Shot in France and currently in post-production, \u2018Jeanne du Barry\u2019 is Ma\u00efwenn\u2019s sixth feature which she also co-wrote with Teddy Lussi-Modeste and Nicolas Livecchi. The film has been acquired by Netflix for France after local theatrical release by Le Pacte, and is produced by Why Not Production Company\u2019s Pascal Caucheteux and Gr\u00e9goire Sorlat, Johnny Depp\u2019s production company IN.2, La Petite Reine and France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions, with the Red Sea IFF serving as executive producers, and Wild Bunch International serving as sales\u2019 agent.<\/span><b><i> <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; color: #1e2d1e; background: white;\">Mohammed Al Turki; CEO of the Red Sea IFF said: \u201cWe are thrilled to be supporting Ma\u00efwenn\u2019s upcoming feature \u2018Jeanne du Barry\u2019. This is a film that immediately interested us, it\u2019s an incredibly unique and ambitious biographical feature and a testament to our commitment to supporting new talent and collaborating with world-class writers, directors and producers. We hope this<i> <\/i>collaboration will strengthen the ties between Saudi and French cinema and the first of many international films that we can support that advocate for women filmmakers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Sea International Film Festival (Red Sea IFF) today announced through the Red Sea film Foundation, they are backing the upcoming French period drama \u2018Jeanne du Barry\u2019 directed, co-written and featuring French actress and filmmaker Ma\u00efwenn. The film stars Johnny Depp as 18th century French King Louis XV, with Ma\u00efwenn in playing the role [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23367,"template":"","class_list":["post-23358","press","type-press","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/23358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}