Young Perez, with closed fists 

Animated feature, in pre-production.
Written and directed by

Jean-Jacques Kahn,

Franck Van Leeuwen

and Zoltán Horváth.

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Produced by Nadasdy film (switzerland).

Duration: 80'
Drama / biopic
Target audience: young adults & adults

"With Closed Fists" tells the story of Victor Young Perez. He wins the World Boxing Championship in 1931 and experiences glory, wealth, and passion. He is also a Jew, arrested by the French police in 1943 and deported to Auschwitz; he disappears during the « Death Marches ».

 

It has been selected by Annecy goes to Cannes 2022 (Cannes), Festival Fantoche in WIP 2015 (Switzerland, Baden), by Festival de la Rochelle (2015), by Festival d'Annecy (Conférence création 2015), by Cartoon Movie (Lyon) en 2015, by the Stuttgart international animated film festival in 2014 in the category «work in progress», by the Centre Georges Pompidou's animated features film special week in October 2013, by the Rendez-vous de la coproduction rhénane in Strasbourg in 2013, by Cartoon Movie (Lyon) en 2012, and by the Cinemed of Montpellier (development aid grant for feature films projects) in 2012.

 

This project won special mention at the Carrefour de la Création in Annecy (MIFA) in 2012, Beaumarchais sacd, grants (development and new technologies) from the CNC, from the Procirep/Angoa, and from the Rhone Alps and Poitou Charentes regions, Cinéforum, Société Suisse des auteurs and Média Desk Suisse.