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Women Are Heroes
JR

 
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2010 / WORLD PREMIERE

1H20 - TBC / IN PORTUGUESE – HINDI – KHMER – ENGLISH…

Synopsis
In his film Women Are Heroes, photographer JR takes his audience into some exceptional women’s lives.
Because there are, most of the time, the first victims in war-time and left to their own during peace-time, JR pays tribute to those women who, in spite of the hurdles, keep smiling, keep fighting and keep hoping a better life.
From Rio’s shantytowns to Kenyan slums, passing by Indian and Cambodian streets, he offers a fresh look at their struggles and expectations.
Displaying their portraits via huge montages on their neighborhood’s walls, JR sublimates those extraordinary destinies and sheds the lights on those strong and moving personalities, too rarely recognized enough.
Women Are Heroes invites you to travel and discover those women, who, day by day and each one with a particular way, struggle to make this world better.
Before all, this film is a message of hope and a real travel through JR’s art.


director:
JR
screenplay: JR, Emile Abinal
cinematography: Patrick Ghiringhelli
sound: Philippe Welsh
editing: Hervé Schneid
music: Patrice – Massive Attack – Jean-Gabriel Becker

Biography

De nationalité française. Né à Paris (France). Women Are Heroes est son premier film en tant que réalisateur.

Filmography
2010   WOMEN ARE HEROES

production
27.11 PRODUCTION
Juliette Favreul Renaud
Agathe Sofer
Tel. +33 1 71 19 77 77
juliette@2711production.com

coproduction
ARTE CINEMA
DUM DUM FILMS
SOCIAL ANIMALS
STUDIO 37
avec la participation de Canal +

distribution
REZO FILMS

sales
ELLE DRIVER

French press agent
Matilde Incerti
Tel. +33 4 93 06 30 00
Matilde.incerti@free.fr

Intl press agent
THE PR CONTACT
Phil Symes
Mob. +33 6 14 61 29 42
festival@theprcontact.com

contact Cannes
27.11 PRODUCTION
Allan Tirloy
Mob. +33 6 98 61 25 34


Le film sera distribué en France le 12 janvier 2011 par Rezo Films
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