The Montreal World Film Festival (August 21st to September 1st), will be presenting the world premiere of "Pure Life", the first feature film by French director Jeremy Banster.
Produced by Cantina Studio, the film tells the true story of explorer Raymond Maufrais on his last expedition to the Amazon Rainforest in French Guyana in 1949.
The movie, an intimate adventure filmed in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, represented somewhat of a challenge taken by the director as is his first film. Much like the plot of the movie, the making of the film itself is a bold endeavour, an experience dedicated to giving its viewers a taste of adventure and travel all while spreading the idea that there is nothing greater than going after your dreams!
"Pure Life" directed by Jeremy Banster
With Stany Coppet, Aurélien Recoing, Daniel Duval, Elli Medeiros and Alex Descas
France
1H33
LA VIE PURE / PURE LIFE
2014, Colour, France, First Films World Competition
Production Team
Director : Jérémy Banster
Screenwriter : Jérémy Banster, Stany Coppet
Cinematographer : Rudy Harbon
Editor : Fabien Montagner
Cast : Stany Coppet, Aurélien Recoing, Daniel Duval, Alex Descas, Barbara Cabrilla
Music : Nathaniel Méchaly
Film production and Sales : Prod.: Jérémy Banster, Olivier Compère, Fabien Montagner, Cantina Studio, 21 des Peupliers, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt (France), olivier.compere@cantinaprod.co, jeremy.banster@cantinaprod.com, fabien.montagner@cantinaprod.com
Synopsis
A French explorer on a solitary expedition in the Amazon forest in 1949 leaves behind him a diary about his life and encounters but leaves the mystery of his own disappearance unsolved.
Director
French actor, writer and filmmaker Jérémy Banster studied at the Paris Conservatory of Dramatic Arts and won the ADAMI prize for young talent at the 1997 Cannes Festival. He has played extensively on stage and screen and made his directorial debut in 1998 with a short, Les Portes blanches. The following year he showed Règlement de contes at the Buenos Aires Festival. Other shorts followed: La Pute (2004), Septembre et moi (2007). In 2011, he founded Cantina Studio, in association with Olivier Compère and Fabien Montagner, and adapted the book by Raymond Maufrais, Aventures en Guyane into the current film, Banster's first feature.