MUCH MORE THAN A MOVIE
"As director, producer, and audiovisual stakeholder in the Indian Ocean, we firmly believe in our creative talent, capacity and desire to produce, direct and disseminate our brand of film-making. We must show we can by making this challenge our driving force for this project."
David Constantin . Director
+ Lonbraz Kann, it's a movie, but ALSO
much more than a movie
Lonbraz Kann is a Mauritian feature film project by David Constantin. As a director and producer from Mauritius, he already has to his credit a number of internationally acclaimed and award-winning short films and documentaries. For more than 10 years, he has been involved in the development of Mauritian cinema. Lonbraz Kann is David Constantin’s first feature film.
This project is a a major opportunity to contribute to the development of cinema in this part of the Indian Ocean and Eastern Africa.
+ Lonbraz Kann, it's a movie, but ALSO
a value added project for Mauritius
With film-making still in its infancy in this part of the world, David Constantin’s Lonbraz Kann aims to be the breakthrough for the emergence of a sustainable cinema industry.
His film project puts the spotlight on training by proposing the organization of workshops both :
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for actors
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and for technicians
of the region as part of the making of the film all along the process.
Lonbraz Kann will mobilize local and regional training resources to thus contribute to social development in Mauritius.
+ Lonbraz Kann, it's a movie, but ALSO
a new cinematography that is emerging from our Indian Ocean region
Lonbraz Kann aims at placing Mauritius our regional Indian Ocean cinema on the world map.
The film is expected to offer to the region’s audience a glimpse of their shared history, a visual narrative deep-rooted in their collective memory and life experience, a kaleidoscope of cultural identities and heritage shaped by sugar and cane.
“Lonbraz Kann” will be set in Mauritius, but the film project involves collaborative inputs from neighbouring countries such as Reunion and Mozambique thanks to a budding network of talents and competences. It promises to be a grand premiere for regional Indian Ocean film-making and cinematography.
THE DIRECTOR . DAVID CONSTANTIN
+ BIODATA
Born in 1974, David CONSTANTIN is a Mauritian filmmaker and producer.
He studied cinematography in ESAV-École Supérieure d'Audiovisuel in Toulouse (France).
In 2003, David CONSTANTIN directed his first short film Colas. Since then, he has been directed several films (both short films and documentaries). He is also the co-Director of a sery of four documentaries, From so far.
In 2004, David CONSTANTIN co-founded Caméléon Production, within he produced
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Île Courts Festival Collections from 2009 to 2013 (27 short films produced in the professional workshops under the umbrella of Festival Île Courts),
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Les Mo’zar de Roche Bois in 2010, documentary by Gopalen Parthiben CHELLAPERMAL
and acts as a line producer for international productions in Mauritius (Euronews, France 5, Canal +, BBC...).
For more than 10 years, David CONSTANTIN has been involved in the development of a Mautitian and Indian Ocean cinematography, through the non-profit organization Porteurs d'Images, founded in 2007 to run Île Courts-International Short Film Festival in Mauritius, that he co-directed from 2007 to 2012.
David CONSTANTIN is currently working on his first featuree Lonbraz Kann.
FILMOGRAPHY
FICTIONS
+ COLAS, THE DICTIONNARY2003 / Mauritius / 17'
Caméléon Production
Public Award Festival Plein Sud (France)
1er Award Francophone Film Festival in Mesnil-Leroy (France)
Supported by OIF-Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie and European Union (ACP/UE programme)
Festivals: About 20 international film Festivals including Montréal (Canada), Milan (Italy), Namur (Belgium), Toulouse (France), Tarifa (Spain), Carthage (Tunisia), Réunion (France), Groix (France)...
Broadcasts: TV5 Monde, France Ô, RFO, MBC
VOD: AfricaFilms.tv
+ BISANVIL
2005 / Mauritius France / 35'
Caméléon Production & Charivari Film (France)
Public Award Amiens Film Festival (France)
Jury Special Award FIFAI-Festival du Film d’Afrique et des îles in Réunion Island (France)
Festivals: About 20 international film Festivals including Amiens (France), Montréal (Canada), Brest (France), La Réunion (France), Milan (Italy), Tarifa (Spain)...
Supported by European Union (ACP/UE programme) and French Embassy in Mauritius.
Broadcats: TV5 Monde, France Ô
+ MADE IN MAURITIUS
2009 / Maurice / 7'
Caméléon Production & Porteurs d’Images
Award Arnone-Bellavote Pellegrini Foundation – 21 Festival Cinema Africano de Milan (Italy)
Official international competition in Clermont Ferrand Film Festival (France) (first Mauritian film in competition)
Festivals: La Réunion (France), Vaulx en Velin (France), Vues d’Afrique Montréal (Canada), Tarifa (Spain), Festival Afrykamara (Poland)...
Broadcast: France Télévision
VOD: AfricaFilms.tv
DOCUMENTARIES
+ DIÉGO L'INTERDITE
2003 / Mauritius / 40'
Caméléon Production & Digital Studio
European Great Award for First Film in Vevey (Switzerland)
Special Mention in Vues d'Afriques in Montréal (Canada)
Festivals: About 20 international film Festivals including Montréal (Canada), Milan (Italy), Vevey (Switzerland), Réunion Island (France), Tarifa (Spain), Groix (France)...
Broadcasts: France Ô, RFO, MBC
+ LES ACCORDS DE BELLA
2007 / Mauritius / 52'
Caméléon Production
Supported by OIF-Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie and French Embassy in Mauritius
Broadcast: TV5 Monde
+ FROM SO FAR (VENUS D'AILLEURS)
2008-2010 / Mauritius / 4 x 52'
Pamplemousses Productions
Co-direction with Alain Gordon-Gentil
Documentaries collection on original countries of Mauritian populations.
Publication: Individual DVD and DVD box.