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SAVE SANDRA

RED SANDRA

By Jan VERHEYEN, Lien WILLAERT

INCREDIBLE FILM - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2021

The film is a dramatization of the true story of the family massart, portraited by Sven De Ridder and Darya Gantura, who fought against the pharmaceutical industry to save the life of their 6 year old daughter Sandra (Rosalie Charles) who is diagnosed with MLD, a rare hereditary disease.

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Drama, True Story
- Countries
- BELGIUM
- Languages
- FLEMISH
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 102 mn
- Director(s)
- Jan VERHEYEN, Lien WILLAERT
- Writer(s)
- Lien WILLAERT
- Cast
- Sven DE RIDDER, Darya GANTURA, Rosalie CHARLES, Viviane DE MUYNCK
- Producer(s)
- Peter BOUCKAERT (EYEWORKS FILM & TV DRAMA BVBA)
- Synopsis
- Completely out of the blue, William and Olga Massart receive the shock diagnosis that their only daughter, six-year old Sandra, has MLD, a rare muscular disease. She has roughly one year to live. As the family’s world crumbles, the father refuses to give up hope and he engages in a fierce battle with the pharmaceutical industry.
  
  “I would do ANYTHING to save my child” – Willem Massart.
  
  Save Sandra is the first artistic collaboration between the couple Jan Verheyen and Lien Willaert both with extensive careers in film production. Willaert wrote the screenplay based on the true and highly topical story of the Massart family, a story that ten years ago deeply touched media and public opinion in Belgium and far beyond.