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XL Productions pour Films et TV

XL Productions | Heinz Dill | Xavier Grin

After having shared a wide range of experiences in film production, Heinz Dill and Xavier Grin have joined together under XL Production pour Film & TV Sàrl for their first joint project, Le souffle du désert / Desert Wind, a documentary co-produced with the National Film Board of Canada, TSR/SSR and Arte.

Dill and Grin have worked on a number of feature films over the past decade. Their production companies, Louise Productions and P.S. Productions, now share the same work space and have joined forces for more ambitious productions — original, high-quality films for cinema and television. They have extensive experience in their respective fields.

Dill and Grin have worked together on productions such as the following:

Chaos byColine Serreau (Les Films Alain Sarde)
La débandade byClaude Berri (Renn Productions)
Les Hirondelles d'hiver, an SSR/France 3 TV movie (Lang Films)
Noir comme le souvenir byJean-Pierre Mocky (Productions JMH)
Trois couleurs : Rouge byK. Kieslowski (CAB Production)
L'ombre byClaude Goretta (Les Productions JMH)
Un Amour en deux by Jean-Claude Gallotta (CAB Production)



	Heinz Dill (en haut) Xabier Grin (en bas)




	After its public successES in SWITZERLAND, Belgium, AT FILM FORUM IN NEW-YORK and IN QUEBEC, Desert Wind WILL BE AVALAIBLE ON DVD. DESERT WIND on DVD The DVD is avalaible, in a co-publishing with the Canadian National Film Board. The DVD includes an interview with Guy CORNEAU, Canadian psychoanalist, writer and lecturer. Interviews also with group leader Alexis Burger and director François Kohler. Film and interviews are subtitled in English and German. TO ORDER THE DVD: SF 35.- (Including VAT 7.6%) + SF 5.-- postage /SF 10.- for Europe. To order from SWITZERLAND, click here. To order from EUROPE, click here. For any other informations, write to info@lesouffledudesert.com. CANADA, USA and the rest of the world : For Canada, USA and the rest of the world, order at the Canadian National Film Board. With the support of Guy CORNEAU November 2006, psychiatrist, writer and lecturer Guy CORNEAU took part in a series of events organised along DESERT WIND's DVD release in Switzerland and Belgium. USA and CANADA : NEW-YORK, Desert Wind was screened at the Film Forum in February 2006 NY's reviews : “Tracks thirteen men who have been brought together for a two-week trek in the Tunisian desert…the true subject matter is the men’s worries, their thoughts on relationships, and, in general, the psyche of the modern male…Watching the subjects’ emotional inhibitions get gradually peeled away is often fascinating.” New York Magazine “As the rigors of the trek become more grueling, the revelations grow more intimate. In the funniest scene, the men take turns stripping naked and talking about their bodies…DESERT WIND manages to take us to a seldom-visited place: the hidden corners of the straight male mind.” Dana Stevens, The New York Times “Led by a Swiss psychotherapist, the men confront their emotions and explode our beer-and-football notions of male bonding…their newfound openness with each other and themselves makes for funny, moving and riveting viewing.” Steve Gartland, The L Magazine “Fascinating.” Jan Stuart, Newsday

by LC