US in Progress Paris

The four selected films are:

 – I am I by Jocelyn – Towne Desert cathedral by Travis Gutierrez Senger – The house of last things by Michael Barlett – The teacher by Hannah Fidell US

US in Progress is a joint initiative between the American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, the Champs-Élysées Film Festival in Paris and Black Rabbit Film. It is the first professional event dedicated to independent American films that are still in post-production. The goal of the event is for film-makers to show their work to potential European buyers in order to encourage their distribution and broadcast across Europe. US in Progress takes place twice a year during two festivals: once in Paris, in June and once in Wroclaw, in October. There is no doubt in anybody’s mind that today the European market is dominated by American films. But by American films we generally mean big budget films produced by big studios. These films are no doubt entertaining, but they only reflect a portion of what the US is all about. Outside of the big studios, there is a dynamic and interesting group of people making independent films but struggling to find distributors abroad. Independent productions often lack an efficient international strategy and European buyers are mostly unaware of the films being produced. Thus, US in Progress aims at building new bridges between today’s up-and-coming generation of talented American filmmakers and European buyers. In a word, we want to present the new faces of the US cinema to the European market. For the first edition of Champs-Élysées Film Festival, four feature-length films have been selected. These films will be presented and screened to a selected group of European vendors, distributors, festivals and producers. For every film that takes part in US in Progress, this will be their first exposure to the European market.