Official Competition

Back to list of films Official Competition

Official competition documentaries

Atlantic Produce Togo ( Togo 2012 )

Color: Documentary, 115’

Direction: Penda Houzganbe et Jean-Gabriel Tregoat

Screenplay: Penda Houzganbe et Jean-Gabriel Tregoat

Director of Photography: Jean-Gabriel Tregoat

Sound: Penda Houzganbe

Editing: Ael Dallier Vega

Production: Ardèche images production

Synopsis

Tony, a young French-Togolese buys a company that is considered a social model in Togo, to save it from bankruptcy. But as he is confronted to economical difficulties and the pressure of his European customers, it becomes harder and harder for him to preserve the social perks he had come to rescue.

Réalisateur

Penda Houzangbe grew up in Togo and studied film in France at Louis Lumiere Film School and in Cuba. She directed a few short films, and works mostly as film editor. Jean-Gabriel is French. After he studied cinematography in England and in Cuba, he collaborates to several short films. "Atlantic Produce Togo s.a." is their first feature film as directors. Jean-Gabriel Tregoat was born in Franc. He studies cinematography in England, at the London College of Printing, then in Cuba, at the International Film and TV School of San Antonio de los Baños. He collaborates to several short films as cinematographer and as script writer. « Atlantic Produce Togo s.a. » is his first feature documentary as director.