Prêt-à-Coller
A documentary about stickers underground communities
From Brussels to Tokyo, from towncenter to the deep forests of germany, stickers are everywhere. Sometimes considered garbage or pollution, young awarded documentary filmmaker Catherine Bernard from Liège chooses to dig deeper and meet the communities behind : artists, football fans, political movements, simple poetry of desperate calls for help : what stickers has to say is loaded with our societies dreams, pains & questions...
Project Timeline
Objet Témoin & Studio Non Peut-Être provide logistics, resources and advices for Director Catherine Bernard to gather initial material and process it towards a 10 minutes pilot. After initial project phase agreement is made to support full long lenght documentary production for cinema and possible mini-series, vlog or podcast declinations according to a non-exclusive deal with financial fallbacks for structure sustainability.
Young documentary project kickoff
Catherine Bernard holds a bachelor's degree in information and communication and a master's degree in performing arts from the University of Liège. She made her first short documentary film, ‘Ras-le-bol étudiant’ (Student Fed Up), as part of the ‘documentary workshop’ course taught by Thierry Michel, a Belgian professor and film director. This short film won many awards at international festivals. She now embarks on this documentary project about ‘Prêt-à-coller’ stickers.
The project reminds european public of Arte Tracks aesthetics & is inspired by Sophie Bruneau or Agnès Varda "Murs Murs" & "Rêver sous le capitalisme" productions.
the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin already agreed to work on international versions of the production.
Education & transmission through filmmaking
This project has hosted transmission sessions both in street photography exercises and studio shooting sessions, driven by our consultants and serving Catherine Bernard's project along with immersing young documentary photographer Yvelt Champagne from Haïti and 3 teenagers students in communication secondary school sections from Brussels.
- Vincenzo Cafiso, Set Engineer
- Tony Sery, Assistant Operator
- Quevin Santos, set production trainee
- Laetitia Aras, set production trainee