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LE CANARD

MEDIAFUSION ENTERTAINMENT - as PROD / FIN

Family - Development 2021

Le Canard, a coming of age, family drama about a top chef and her estranged teenage daughter forced on a road trip together to find the purveyor of the finest ducks needed for her restaurant, the world famous, Le Canard, and end up finding the love that binds them.

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Family, Comedy, Road movie
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Writer(s)
- Carol GOMEZ-ROBELO
- Producer(s)
- Carol BIDAULT DE L'ISLE (MEDIAFUSION ENTERTAINMENT)
- Synopsis
- A New York chef, Jeanne Broussard has a problem with her supply of ducks which is the cornerstone of her highly successful restaurant, LE CANARD. Jeanne learns that one of her best suppliers, LANDRY Farms located in the middle of the Louisiana bayous, doesn't want to increase her order. Jeanne decides to go "visit" the Landry Farms and convince the old man Landry to "get with the program". In the meantime, her estranged daughter, Victoire ("Vicky") is set to stay with her while her ex-husband goes on his honeymoon. With no way out, Jeanne decides to make the best of this trip. Who knows, maybe she can kill two birds with one stone, so to speak, meet with her supplier and spend some "quality time" with her daughter. The next day, Jeanne and Vicky arrive in New Orleans where they drive to the middle of the bayous, where she grew up in search of the world renown ducks.
  
  There they meet up with the Landry family, an old Black Cajun family that runs one of the best duck farm in the country, as well as a whole lot of other businesses in the area. For the next few days, Jeanne tries to navigate between trying to get the old man to agree to supply her with more ducks that she so desperately needs and is willing to pay any price while trying to appease her daughter, who wants nothing to do with her mother, nor these backwoods, country ways. Vicky also sees how her mother grew up, rich with family love, but a failed love affair lead her to not go to college and go to New York and became a chef. Vicky meets her Cajun family, where both accept her and school her on their ways.
  
  Through the people they encounter, the events they experience, Jeanne and Vicky realize the value of family, life and taking the time to appreciate them.
  
  Set against the harshly beautiful backdrop of the Louisiana bayous, Le Canard is a road trip movie that explores the themes of family, coming of age, and culture clashes, with off-beat humor.
- Partners & financing
- MediaFusion Entertainment
  Equity Investors
- Production schedule
- Prep - February 2021
  Production: April 2021
  Post - June 2021
  Delivery - August 2021
- Beginning of shooting
- Mar 15, 2021
- End of shooting
- Apr 16, 2021