Founded two years after that of Montfermeil, the free cinema school Kourtrajmé Marseille trains in the technical professions of cinema and offers support throughout the course.
Keystones of the training, internships in a professional environment are an opportunity to discover the environment, to train but also to weave a network, like Yacine, employed on
Emily in Paris
after an internship.
They finally set their scene.
After a launch without a fixed location, then a stint at Buropolis, an ephemeral city of artists, the Kourtrajmé cinema school in Marseille has just settled, this time definitively, in the media center of La Belle de Mai.
"Being here, in the place where Plus Belle la Vie
has filmed for years
, is a source of pride", slips Younes, 24, who joined the school's second class via the local mission.
Because the Marseilles antenna of Kourtrajmé, created two years after that of Montfermeil, is not only a free school which works for diversity in the cinema.
It is also an association for integration through the economy, in this case through technical professions in the audiovisual sector.
Among the thirty or so students, about ten are employed for the duration of their training and benefit from specific support, with, for example, assistance in obtaining a driving licence.
“We started from a paradoxical observation, explains Marie-Antonelle Joubert, director of the Kourtrajmé Marseille school.
On the one hand, there are a lot of unqualified or disoriented young people, who nevertheless would have their place on the set, but who don't know the way.
And on the other, a glaring lack of diversity in the cinema and yet, here too, a very strong desire, as evidenced by all the volunteer speakers at the school.
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“Cinema was completely inaccessible”
Kourtrajmé Marseille thus wants to be the missing link that unlocks the cogs of the system.
Schooling is short (nine months at the rate of twelve hours per week) and is done part-time, to allow work on the side.
It is based on exchanges with professionals (masterclass, workshops), internships and support throughout the course.
“The objective is for them to find a profession in which they want to deepen, explains Justine Ochs, head of education and training.
We try to draw with them a professional project in the short, medium and long term.
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On a school wall, near the bar and the small lending library, everyone's portraits are displayed in Polaroid mode.
Below, on a yellow post-it, the students wrote their ambition and their dream.
Yacine, 28, wrote “Working in costume” and “doing projects all over the world”.
"For me, working in the cinema was a completely inaccessible world, it's not even a world in which I imagined being able to enter", she confides.
Kourtrajmé has been there, via, there too, an integration process.
The school landed him a one-month internship on the
Emily in Paris
series , in costume design.
She has done more than prove herself there since the production asked her to stay, paid in fees this time, with, as a result, the status of intermittent.
"We are overwhelmed with internship proposals", rejoices the director of the school, who also cites, as an option for students to create a network and garner know-how, the commissioned films made by the students of Kourtrajmé. .
And even, soon, a short film signed by the collective.
When he's not acting for the web-series of Damien, a colleague from the first class, Younes is working on his own project that he would like to “share on YouTube”.
"It's good that there are virtuous counterexamples like the director Ladj Ly, but it's not because there is a Ladj Ly that it's the norm, and we hope that it will take them less than 25 years old to become a filmmaker”, launches Marie-Antonelle Joubert.
The foundations are in any case laid with this new Marseille HQ.
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