BLOODHOUNDS, 9min,. France
Directed by Dimitri Besicovitch
Fernando and Elvira flee after the death of Inna, caused by a member of their group. Meanwhile, the others are looking for them. When they find them, Fernando provokes a sword fight. After his defeat, Elvira turns against him and joins the two other bloodhounds in order to find her people. The three bloodhounds then begin the fight against Fernando which ends with the death of the latter fathered by Elvira. A few seconds later, she was shot down in turn by one of the two bloodhounds.

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Get to know the filmmaker:

1. What motivated you to make this film?
I am a stunt man and a fencer and I wanted to tell a story through fencing. THe four main actors are friends and also fencers, they actually won the 2023 artistique fencing championship with their scene "Conquistador". I was in the audience and I witnessed them winning it. I wanted to use in a film those choregraphies made by the Fencing Master (Maître d'Arme in french) Julien Pennanec'h who trained them for the championship. And here I was writing an adaptation of the scene "Conquistador" that they performed, into this movie "Bloodhounds".

2. From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to make this film?
The production and shoot were pretty quick. The first Idea came with Orianne Faure and Thomas Dedeken, playing Elvira and Fernando in the movie. And 3 month later I gathered a team and we shot during 3 days. The post Production was however took us more than a year. I was at first working alone with my dear friend Adrien Ollive who is the DOP and helped me produce the film. Then we worked with Adrien Jeannot who is a director and marvelous editor too. He help us a lot and thanks to him we had a final version of the film in october 2024. So we took a year and a half to make it

3. How would you describe your film in two words!?
"Betrayal" and "Swords" I guess ^^

4. What was the biggest obstacle you faced in completing this film?
We struggle with our continuity, i made a lot of mistakes during the shooting, which were difficult to deal with, to assemble the movie, I had to make drastic cuts into it, to make it work . So my biggest obstacle was to make the sacrifice of the third fight I had.

5. What were your initial reactions when watching the audience talking about your film in the feedback video?
I was with my friend Adrien Ollive the DOP of the film and we both were amazed, people like our movie! After almost 15 month of post production I think we forgot that people were going to watch it. ^^

6. When did you realize that you wanted to make films?
I started as an actor in 2013 and actually directed 2 shorts that I posted on youtube, but I realised that I wanted to tell stories through films for about a year or two. I had the opportunity to write and direct stunt shows with acrobatique horse riding and sword fights and I loved it. But I was missing the intimacy of the camera and I wanted to get back to it.

7. What film have you seen the most in your life?
I think it must be Fight Club or the Matrix ^^ not very original i guess

8. What other elements of the festival experience can we and other festivals implement to satisfy you and help you further your filmmaking career?
I really don't know, I'm new to festival and it is amazing to have feedback like that so thank you so much.

9. You submitted to the festival via FilmFreeway. How has your experiences been working on the festival platform site?
Perfect

10. What is your favorite meal?
Like Joey in friends i have to answer Sandwiches ^^

11. What is next for you? A new film?
Yes, we already shot a new film called " Coup de récrée" (it is a French puns mixing punch and playground ) with a fight on a Paris rooftop and we are in post production right now . With my friend Adrien Ollive we built " Chill Guys Films " and we are going to continue making films.
And "Chill Guys Films" also participated as a second unit and action unit in the next Adrien Jeannot movie called "Beyond the Line".