Brittany grants aid of 250,000 euros to the film on green algae

• Despite the controversy, the Brittany region has decided to grant a grant of 250,000 euros to the film on green algae.

• The feature film by Pierre Jolivet is an adaptation of the comic strip by Inès Léraud.

• In her investigation, the journalist returns to this scourge which has poisoned Brittany for several decades.

The decision was not unanimous among the elected officials with the vote against from the right and the abstention of the centrists.

Despite the controversy, the permanent commission of the regional council of Brittany still granted aid of 250,000 euros on Monday to the film

, whose filming has just ended in the region.

The subsidy will be paid to the company 2.4.7 Films, which produces the feature film by Pierre Jolivet, an adaptation of the comic strip

.

Signed by the journalist Inès Léraud and the cartoonist Pierre Van Hove, this investigation returns to this scourge which has poisoned Brittany for several decades.

By pointing out the ravages of intensive agriculture, the journalist had not only made friends.

Because the subject of green algae is highly sensitive in Brittany.

"Nobody wants to see it and the authorities are even trying to hide it," she confided to

when the comic was released in 2019.

Some elected officials evoke a film “in charge”

In the regional hemicycle, the question of granting a subsidy to this feature film therefore arose, with some elected officials speaking of a “dependent” film which harms the image of the region.

But, after a favorable opinion from a committee of experts, the regional council finally decided to grant a subsidy to the film crews.

To calculate its amount, the region was based "on the number of days of filming in Brittany, the investment in the territory, the financial viability of the project and the anchoring of the work in Brittany" she explains. in a press release.

This ultimately leads to a grant of 250,000 euros, or 7% of the envelope granted to the feature film financing plan by the region.

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