Cowboy
Short film
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| Courts d’ailleurs | Friday, 5 April | 18:30 | Consult the activity |
Eight-year-old Joachim has an uncommon best friend. Cowboy is plump, funny and consoles him… but he is imaginary. Philippe, his father, ignores Joachim and is unable to talk to him, to communicate… and to tell him what happened to his mother.
*V.O. french / luxembourgish
Frederic Zeimet
Frederic Zeimet is a Luxembourgish-born screenwriter and director. An eager storyteller, passionate about movies, Frederic studied Scriptwriting in Brussels. He worked with Luc Dardenne on his first long-feature script, an adaptation of Friedrich Durrenmatt’s THE JUDGE AND HIS HANGMAN. He took part in several screenwriting competitions, was selected for the International Screenwriters’ Festival, twice for the Screenwriters’ White Night at the Cannes Film Festival, and finally won the Jury Prize at the Best Junior Script Prize in France in 2010.
He was part of the European TV Lab in 2013. In 2017, he participated in Adaptlab organised by the TorinoFilmLab.
He is a tutor for the screenwriting master at the INSAS Brussels and at the BTS cinema et audiovisuel in Luxembourg.
His short-film “Cowboy”, developed during the European Short Pitch, is his first experience as a director.