‘How To Have Sex’ Director Molly Manning Walker Joins Cannes La Résidence Program
20.03.2024 - 23:13
/ deadline.com
UK director, writer and cinematographer Molly Manning Walker, who won the Cannes Un Certain Regard prize last year for How To Have Sex, has been selected for the festival’s four-and-a-half month La Résidence program in Paris.
She will be joined by Aditya Ahmad (Indonesia), Daria Kashcheeva (Tajikistan), Danech San (Cambodia), Ernst De Geer (Sweden) and Anastasiia Solonevych (Ukraine).
They follow in the wake of Meltse Van Coillie (Belgium), Diana Cam Van Nguyen (Vietnam/Czech Republic), Hao Zhao (China), Gessica Généus (Haiti), Andrea Slaviček (Croatia), Asmae El Moudir (Morocco) who are currently coming to the end of their residency.
Both intakes will be brought together at the Cannes Film Festival’s 77th edition, running May 14 to 25.
Since its launch in 2000, La Résidence has welcomed 250 directors from around 60 countries including Lucrecia Martel, Kornél Mundruczó, Sebastián Lelio, Antonio Campos, Karim Aïnouz and Jonas Carpignano.
Based in a large flat in Paris’ ninth arrondissement, the program aims to accompany the filmmakers as they write work on their screenplays with one-on-one support as well as through collective sessions with cinema professionals.
Manning Walker is coming off a high-profile 12 months. As well as winning the Un Certain Regard prize, How To Have Sex clinched another twenty awards including the Discovery Award at the European Film Awards and best lead performance at the BIFAS. It was nominated for four BAFTAs.
She was also the cinematographer on Charlotte Regan’s first film Scrapper, which won the Grand Jury Prize in Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition.
Ahmad is currently writing his first feature film following award-winning shorts On Stopping The Rain and A Gift.
Prague-based