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PRESS RELEASES
For immediate distribution - Thursday, August 1st, 2002
World Premiere of Manon Briand's LA TURBULENCE DES FLUIDES to open the 26th Montreal World Film Festival
Montreal, July 29th 2002. LA TURBULENCE DES FLUIDES, second feature film by Qu�bec director Manon Briand will be the opening film of the next MWFF on August 22nd. Serge Losique, president of the Festival stated : �I am very happy to find Canadian directors like Manon Briand who are able to be present more often in international film competition either here or abroad�. He recalls that 2 SECONDS, Manon Briand's former film got the Best first feature, Best Director and Public Awards at the MWFF in 1998�
LA TURBULENCE DES FLUIDES takes place in a small Quebec bay town where the tide has mysteriously stopped. When Alice, a Tokyo based seismologist, is sent to investigate the strange occurrence, she finds herself transported to a rich and strange universe where love, paranormal phenomena and fate all intertwine.
This film is a coproduction between Roger Frappier and Luc Vandal from Max-Films (Montr�al) and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam and Luc Besson from Europa Corp. (Paris) LA TURBULENCE DES FLUIDES stars PASCALE BUSSI�RES, JULIE GAYET, JEAN-NICOLAS VERREAULT and GENEVI�VE BUJOLD. Serge Losique �is pleased to welcome this recent collaboration between Roger Frappier and Luc Besson the �Speilberg of Europe� according to Mr. Losique. Those two producers are both internationnally reknown.
LA TURBULENCE DES FLUIDES is distributed in Canada by Alliance-Atlantis.
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Henry Welsh (514) 495-8176 then (514) 841-2080 as of August 20th
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