Gabrielle Lissot wins inaugural residence for sustainability animation

Gabrielle Lissot, with its folkloric concept Les Louves (Wolves), was elected by the SAR jury to receive the first six weeks ever Residence for sustainable animation, starting May 22, 2021 in Saint Rémy de Provence, France.

The international ProJury includes: Jeanette Jeanenne (Los Angeles), independent animation director / producer and co-founder of the GLAS Animation Festival; Eleanor Coleman (Paris), expert in the acquisition / development of independent animated films; Maria Finders (Arles), artistic director, Luma Days and co-founder, Atelier LUMA; Korina Gutsche (Berlin), an environmentalist who helps film and television productions go “green”; Niki Mardas (Oxford), executive director of Global Canopy; and Richard Wu (Taipei), media entrepreneur and co-founder of indie game developer Seed Studio.

Lissot was selected from a shortlist of four “incredibly accomplished” film proposals, preselected by the SAR PreJury composed by Joana Schliemann, founder, Schliemann Residency Provence; Luce Grosjean, founder, MIYU Distribution; Tony Guerrero, Benoit Berthes Siward and Mathieu Rey.

"We are thrilled with the high number of candidates for the first SAR residency and impressed by the exceptional ideas, thoughtfulness, creativity and technical experience we have found in the film submissions from around the world. It was a real challenge for the juries to choose the winner from such a talented cohort. We hope that the SAR initiative, with its passion for the environment and the creative genius of animation, will have an impact of some kind on the audience. ”Commented the jury.

SAR was established in collaboration between Schliemann Residency Provence and MIYU Distribution with the help of Do Not Disturb, to amplify the urgency of environmental action using powerful animation tools. Located near Arles, the SAR seeks to tap into the unique pool of a world-class animation industry based in and around Arles and to support their talents in a global context.

Les Louves: The world as we know it no longer exists. Eva and her daughter Lou take refuge in the forest. This is where they meet Lili, an elderly woman who has always lived in the woods. Together, the three women will learn to live differently, educate, help and love each other. To survive in this nourishing but cruel nature, they will have to become free and wild women - wolves.

Born in 1987 in Rouen, Gabrielle Lissot studied animation at Supinfocom Valenciennes. There, he directed his first one-minute short, followed by Tous des monstres, his graduation film. He then decided to take up directing, first with the creation of an animated sequence in the documentary film Prisonniers de l'Himalaya (Louis Meunier, 2012), then with his short film Jukai (2015) and finally with the VR experience Édouard Manet A Bar aux Folie Bergère (2018). She also works as an artistic director and currently contributes to a feature film in development.