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Richès Karayib introduces you to Nadia Charlery, a film director from Martinique.
Nadia is telling us about her story.
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Nadia Charlery
WHO I AM
Since I was a little girl I have always loved writing and telling stories. I still remember those afternoons when I was making up characters, stories I was “playing” while my parents were napping, or my first little Hi8 movies shot in my garage.
Later it became obvious that my path would be in the visual art and the cinema.
After studying at L’ESRA Paris (High School of Audiovisual Production) I decided to go back to “my country” Martinique, because I felt that I had things to do, stories to tell, and above all I was needed to feed on my roots to develop my film projects.
For several years, I served as an assistant director, production manager, and casting director on tv movies, commercials and television magazines for several local and french production companies.
It was an educational experiences that was necessary for me before the production stage.
MY PRODUCTIONS
I made my first short movie in 2010. ” Le pense bête” (The reminder) won the Ekoclap/ODE 2010 competition and the 2011 Prize for short film Festival.
At the same time, I made video clips, commercials and institutional films.
My second short movie, “Entre deux” (Between Two), received the Short Prize, the Short Prize Screenplay Award of the 2013 Short Prize Festival, and the special mention of the Guadeloupe FEMI Jury the same year.
In 2015, I did “35 minutes avant les 40” (35 minutes before the 40) short film produced by Tropiques Atrium.
The following year, I finalized a more ambitious project of 26” “Ti Coq” (Little Rooster),a tender love story between a young boy, his granny and a rooster. A scenario first awarded at Cannes as part of the HOHOHA and which would receive several awards a few years later in Caribbean and international festivals.
“Zanmi” (Friend) is my last short movie, on a sensitive subject after a collaboration with the association Kap Caraïbe.
Eager to pass on my knowledge and awaken vocations, I also now lead film workshops for children and adults.
I am also a casting director for different types of productions.
Today, I’m working on a documentary project, a magazine project and of course I still have a few short movies in mind, but I’m also starting to write my first feature film…
FILMOGRAPHY
ZANMI
KAP Caraïbes
11 min
2019
TI COQ
Chronoprod Movies
24 min
2015
35 MINUTES AVANT LES 40
Chronoprod Movies
6 min
2014
ENTRE DEUX
Chronoprod Movies
8 min
2013
LE PENSE BÊTE
2min
2010
FOCUS
“Zanmi” (Friend)
This is the last short movie that I made and for the first time a script that I did not write, but the result of a collaboration with the association Kap Caribbean, which fights for the respect of LGBT-Q rights (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual-Queer).
In the workshops they organized for their members, I led a script writing workshop and finally it seemed important to finalize the adventure with the script written collaboratively.
Shooting this short film without any budget was not easy but it was rich in meetings and good energies of the artistic and technical crew.
Zanmi is an important film because of its theme: homosexuality, a subject still very sensitive in the West Indies and too little treated locally in fiction .
But it is above all a film that speaks of tolerance and love and it is the universal message that must be remembered beyond any questions of sexuality.
“Ti Coq” (Little Rooster)
It is for now the most important movie of my film career because it is the one that made me the most known and who traveled from festivals to festivals. It has won awards in the Caribbean and internationally.
Its “gestation” as a first real baby was long; it was first awarded for its film script at the HOHOHA, which gave me the opportunity to go to Cannes and then it took me 6 years to finally produce it.
The time needed to make my foray , find a production and mature my work as a director.
Ti Coq is a tender love story between a boy, his granny and his rooster…
It was also an opportunity for me to show another Martinique more typical, far from coconut trees and fine sand, as a cultural tradition.
This short film is currently only available on an American streaming platform: studioanansi.tv.
I hope this year to be able to offer it in TV broadcast or streaming in France or elsewhere.
FOCUS
“Zanmi” (Friend)
This is the last short movie that I made and for the first time a script that I did not write, but the result of a collaboration with the association Kap Caribbean, which fights for the respect of LGBT-Q rights (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual-Queer).
In the workshops they organized for their members, I led a script writing workshop and finally it seemed important to finalize the adventure with the script written collaboratively.
Shooting this short film without any budget was not easy but it was rich in meetings and good energies of the artistic and technical crew.
Zanmi is an important film because of its theme: homosexuality, a subject still very sensitive in the West Indies and too little treated locally in fiction .
But it is above all a film that speaks of tolerance and love and it is the universal message that must be remembered beyond any questions of sexuality.
“Ti Coq” (Little Rooster)
It is for now the most important movie of my film career because it is the one that made me the most known and who traveled from festivals to festivals. It has won awards in the Caribbean and internationally.
Its “gestation” as a first real baby was long; it was first awarded for its film script at the HOHOHA, which gave me the opportunity to go to Cannes and then it took me 6 years to finally produce it.
The time needed to make my foray , find a production and mature my work as a director.
Ti Coq is a tender love story between a boy, his granny and his rooster…
It was also an opportunity for me to show another Martinique more typical, far from coconut trees and fine sand, as a cultural tradition.
This short film is currently only available on an American streaming platform: studioanansi.tv.
I hope this year to be able to offer it in TV broadcast or streaming in France or elsewhere.
Subtitle available in French/English and Spanish
“Caribbean… tis”
I really became aware of a Caribbean cinema when I went for the first time to Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, I saw high quality short films, I watched a cinema that is similar to ours, I felt and I understood the importance of co-productions.
I felt an awakening and came back with enthusiasm, with the confidence that this emerging industry was going to be more and more famous because it was ahead of us in terms of cooperation and production.
It seems important to me that the French West Indies finally get closer to its English-speaking and Spanish-speaking Caribbean neighbours.
Our histories and our culture have too much in common to confine ourselves to the “Franco-European” market, which is not yet aware of the richness of our plural cultural identity and therefore of what we could bring to the cinematic landscape.
TOMORROW..
So I really hope that the cinematic future will be Caribbean, that it will be focused on cooperation, on more exchanges and that its directors will emerge and that they will have the success they deserve. We have nothing to envy from the big continents, the talents are there, the sets, the knowledge too…
We may have a lack of confidence and locally the implementation of a real cultural policy that also focuses on the film industry so that tomorrow we will fill more and more cinema screens.
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