MAGNETIC

FICTION SERIES
8 x 52 mins
IN DEVELOPMENT
Three teenagers discover by accident in their middle school, the walled-up corpse of a young boy, William Zegger, who disappeared 32 years earlier. While the reopening of the investigation forces the adults of the village to dredge up burried memories, the three children are confronted with a supernatural manifestation. The magnetic tape of an old audio cassette once belonging to William comes to life... and tries to make contact with them.
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THE TEAM

Julien Faure

Director, screenwriter
Julien Faure is a french director and designer who received a master’s degree in visual arts from Penninghen. Through his signature warm honey-tinted lighting, Julien portrays the inner and outer beauty of humanity through timeless, silky imagery yet always with an underlying strength at the root of his thoroughly compelling films.

Julien Amsellem

Screenwriter
Laurent Amsellem is a senior screenwriter who has worked on several exciting shows for French television (Canal + / France TV). He thrives in writing stories where drama and comedy are perpetually intertwined.

James Hagger

Producer
James Hagger is the founder and producer of ELIOTNESS. In the last 14 years James has produced over a hundred live action and animated films, from fictions to documentaries, to short films and commercials.

Robin Noël

Producer
Robin began his career in feature films alongside Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache for the company Quad Films, assisting them on internationally acclaimed films. He joined ELIOTNESS in 2020, sharing founder James Hagger's ambition to develop and carry ambitious projects, blurring the imposed boundaries of genre.
INFORMATION
Catégorie: FICTION SERIES
Format: 8 x 52 mins
Status: IN DEVELOPMENT
Synopsis :

In this small town in the Landes region of France, three young students are confronted with several upsetting events. After discovering, in a wall of their school, the corpse of a young boy who had disappeared, the teenagers witnessed what is commonly called a supernatural manifestation. It is through an old audio cassette that belonged to him, that William Zegger addresses them. Or more exactly, it is with the magnetic tape contained inside, that William’s spirit will strive to shape forms with more and more precise and significant appearances. A phenomenon that will quickly offer him the possibility of creating a new “body”, unusual certainly, but very real. Disturbing the peace of this small village of the Landes, whose quietude is only the facade of a dark past…