The other news is Arte’s presentation of Prison Valley at the Panthéon cinema on December 1^st as part of their press screening of the channel’s programmes for autumn 2010 (here’s the PDF file, cf. pp. 30-31).

Otherwise, the Prison Valley blog has now moved, thanks to good work by Maxime Quintard, a crazy encoder at Upian, and Seb Brothier, artistic director of the same (fine) company, who’s responsible for all the web, iPhone and other design for Prison Valley. Many, many thanks to them.

The guy’s name is Jan. Jan is the husband of the motel managers who’ll play a big part in Prison Valley. If you really want to know, this motel is kind of the base camp for Seb Brothier, Eric Drier, David Desprès, Bertrand Tronsson, Maxime Quintard and the rest of Upian’s development team. They spend the whole day there – literally – and so did Philippe and I during shooting. And soon, so will you. We hope so anyway.

While we’re on the subject of Philippe, he’s just got two gigs rolled into one – a drama at the Louvre Museum. It’s part of the partnership between Arte and the Louvre, and it’s now online: ‘L’étrange syndrome de Jean René’.

Hang on, we need to give a shout-out and a helping hand to a wonderful self-produced web series called brevesdetrottoirs.com, which takes you on a journey into the heart of the real Paris. We recognise some of the cameras and sound equipment on the crew’s website… We wish you a fair journey, guys!

For a few week’s now, this trailer’s been on the IDFA website, the Amsterdam festival we’ll be going to soon and which we mentioned yesterday on the blog.

The video’s been popping up all over the Internet in the last few hours. First here, then here, then here and there. Then other places. That’s lucky because our next post’s going to be about melting borders…

Catch you soon.