little black spiders

OFFICIAL COMPETITION VALLADOLID INT’L FILM FESTIVAL

CREDITS Original title: Little Black Spiders Director: Patrice Toye Original screenplay: Patrice Toye, Ina Vandewijer Cast: Line Pillet, Charlotte De Bruyne, Dolores Bouckaert, Ineke Nijssen, Nathalie Verbeke, Martha Vandermeulen, Romy Louise Lauwers, Marjan De Schutter, Renée Vervaet Photography: Richard van Oosterhout Editing: Damien Keyeux Sound: Gilles Laurent Sound design: Marc Bastien Music: John Parish Art director: Vincent de Pater Costumes: Yan Tax Make-up: Hennesien van Walderveen

FORMAT Original version: Dutch, English Running time: 94’ Format: DCP, 35mm - 1:1.85 Dolby Digital - Colour Year of production: 2012

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PRODUCTION Production company: Prime Time Flemish producer: Antonino Lombardo Co-producers: Jacques-Henri Bronckart, Olivier Bronckart (Versus Production), Frans van Gestel, Arnold Heslenfeld (Topkapi Films) Supported by / in cooperation with: Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), NFF, één, CCA, VOO, Wallimage/Bruxellimage, Casa Kafka, Belfius, the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, Cinéart

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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Patrice Toye

Belgium, 1978. Katja, Roxy, and a group of other lively girls are too young for love, but still almost mothers. In a hidden location, pregnant teenage girls await the birth of their babies in secret. Some want to put their mistake behind them as soon as possible, but Katja, herself an orphan, clearly wants something different: she longs to have her own little baby.

During the long wait, the girls share each other’s joys and sorrows. They form close friendships and distract themselves with strange games – until the bubble bursts, and Katja becomes painfully aware of the plans that the nuns are making behind their backs. She is not going to let this happen to her baby, however…

Little Black Spiders is a story about the beauty and strength of unexpected friendships.

Patrice Toye graduated from the Sint-Lukas film academy in Brussels in 1990. Her films show a search for identity by the characters, in which a flight into the surreal plays a central role.

She has made various shorts, documentaries, and TV programmes. Her debut film Rosie, released in 1998, received international acclaim from both audiences and critics. The film was released around the world, including the USA, France and Japan, and sold to 12 countries. Rosie featured in the selections and winners of multiple international film festivals, winning the prizes for Best Script at the Flanders International Film Festival (1998), Best Actress at the Premiers Plans Film Festival in Angers, Best Film of the Year (Norway), and the Audience Award at the Bergamo Film Festival.

The script of her second feature film Nowhere Man was awarded the NHK International Filmmakers Prize at the Sundance Festival. The film also made the selection of the Venice Film Festival (Venice Days), the Montreal World Film Festival and in Hamburg, Sao Paolo, Gijon, Copenhagen, Prague, and South-Korea.

ABOUT THE PRODUCER Antonino Lombardo

Antonino Lombardo created Prime Time in 1987. An EAVE graduate (1994), he was selected for PolyGram’s Fastlane programme in 1997.

Prime Time’s productions include Rosie (1998) by Patrice Toye and both Someone Else’s Happiness (2005) and Unspoken by Fien Troch. He also co-produced films such as Ultranova (2004)

by Bouli Lanners and Winter in Wartime (2008) by Martin Koolhoven. Lombardo was also the Belgian co-production partner in Marleen Gorris’ Antonia’s Line (1995) which won the Best Foreign Language Academy Award in 1996.

Recent (co-)productions include Our Children (Un Certain Regard, 2012) by Joachim Lafosse, Nono, The Zigzag Kid (2012) by Vincent Bal, Kid (2012) by Fien Troch and Little Black Spiders (2012) by Patrice Toye.