EXCLUSIVE: Belgian director Frederike Migom, in Berlin this week with her Generation Kplus drama Everyone’s Sorry Nowadays, has revealed details of her latest venture about troubled youth titled May I Be (Me).
Produced by Emmy Oost at Cassette for timescapes and Magellan Films, the project is being made as both a series and a feature documentary. The Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) and broadcaster VRT Canvas are supporting the project.
The subjects of May I Be (Me) are young people in a psychiatric hospital in Brussels. “The hospital that asked me to do something with the teenagers,” explained Migom. “Initially, I thought this is very difficult because their problems are very severe and it is very difficult to make audiences want to look at suicidal kids. But then we decided to film them, but only in their strength.”
Everyone’s Sorry Nowadays is an adaptation of a local bestseller by Bart Moeyaert, about a troubled young girl struggling to make sense of her family life. It is produced by Belgium’s De Mensen, Dutch outfit Juliet at Pupkin and Germany’s CALA film, it was developed through the Cinekid labs and is being sold by LevelK. Paradiso has Belgian rights.
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