Noodles ProductioN PreseNts

a film by audrey fouche

bowquarter

a little boy losta little boy found

a little boy kept

[trailer]

Noodles ProductioN PreseNts

a film by audrey fouche

bowquarter

a little boy losta little boy founda little boy kept

[everybody had an imaginary mother]

Joas Johnson is an eight year old boy living in the Bow Quarter gated community of East London. Joas keeps trying to runaway from his parents because he’s convinced of being the missing son of a woman named June Carter. June Carter has been a British national celebrity since her baby son was kidnapped in hospital eight years ago. The two of them should never have met. But when Joas succeeds in escaping the watch of his parents and eventually ends up knocking on June Carter’s door, little does he know that she is, indeed, waiting for him…

[synopsis]

A kidnapping thriller set in contemporary London, Bow Quarter reverses the code of the genre to put in presence two strong and lasting characters : June, a middle aged woman who can’t get over the stealing of her baby son and Joas, a boy who strongly believes that he, somehow, is her missing child. Centered on the boy’s character, the film explores a feeling seldom shown in films - the belief of having been adopted, which a lot of people have experienced in their childhood and grown out of. But what happens if you don’t ? What happens if you set to find the parents you long for ? The answer to that question is a case of dream turning into nightmare - as every fairytale will have it. When Joas comes knocking on June’s door, he perpetuates in total innocence an act of extraordinary violence : he brings the dead back to life and rekindle in June the excruciating hope of having her child back… even if it means never letting him out again.

[director’s note]

Born in 1981. After having acquired a Master of Arts in English Literature, Audrey Fouché integrated La Fémis (the French National Film School) script-writing department in 2003. She graduated summa cum laude in 2007 and is now currently preparing her first feature film, Memories Corner, with French producer Jérôme Vidal (Noodles Production), which she will be directing in January/February 2010. In parallel, she has been developing the script of her second feature project, Bow Quarter, produced by Julien Naveau for Noodles Production.

[director’s biography]

Created in 1997 by Anne Bennet, Noodles Production is a feature film production company based in Paris. Jérôme Vidal and Julien Naveau are Noodles’ main producers. Noodles focus its activity on first and second french films but also on European coproductions, in particularly with Spain. Noodles Production recently coproduced the following films: Petit Indi, La Mujer sin Piano and Territories. Petit Indi is the latest Marc Recha’s feature film shot in Barcelona. The first screening of the film took place in the Locarno’s Piazza Grande and it will be released in France by Ad Vitam on the 10th of February. Javier Rebollo’s new film, La Mujer sin Piano, another Spain-France coproduction, has been selected by the San Sebastian film festival, and Javier Rebollo won the Best Director’s prize. Territories is our latest coproduction, a coproduction between France and Canada. It’s a first film directed by Olivier Abbou, totally shot in Canada which is currently in postproduction. In mid-January will begin the shooting of Audrey Fouché’s first feature titled Memories Corner. This film represents also the first project developed by the Noodles’ new team which will be put in production. This ambitious film will be totally located in Kobe (Japan), and the main actors are Déborah François, Hiroshi Abe and Hidetoshi Nishijima.

[noodles production]

38, rue dunois75647 Paris cedex 13 francetéléphone : +33 1.42.38.61.96fax : +33 1.42.45.00.33email : jnaveau@noodlesproduction.com

developed through Passion to market (2009-2010) an initiative of the National film school (uK), the Polish National film television & theatre school (Poland) and la fémis (france).With the support of the european community media programme and the Polish film institute.