PRODUCTION STATEMENT

« Merrick is foremost a human experience. This film was born from the drive of a group of friends to filmmaking and is produced completely independently by Red Color and Khatom Productions. Merrick was filmed for the most part in the department of Corrèze, France, and the production is the result of the dynamic "resourcefulness" which its team engineered. The film premiered at several festivals, including the Champs-Elysées film festival, the International Independent Film Festival of Bordeaux and the Oxford International Film Festival, where it was enthusiastically and critically acclaimed by the public. The story takes place in a colourful post-apocalyptic setting and paints a poetic meditation on mourning. »

Jonathan S. Khayat - Khatom Productions

SYNOPSIS

Ten years after a disease killed most of the human race, Stanislas Merrick, former boxing champion, survives near a lake. His reasons to live start to fade but Esther, a teenager escaped from a refugee camp, will change his life.

DIRECTOR

Benjamin Diouris was born in Rennes in 1992. After a two-year stint at Florent, he entered the faculty of Paris VII Diderot, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in film studies. He also worked in various positions on film clips projects, short films and independent feature films, before starting to write his first feature film, Merrick, produced by Red Color Productions and Khatom Productions. The movie won multiple prizes in film festival around the world (Paris, Los Angeles, Shanghai,…).