Night of the Kings with Philippe Lacôte and Alex Stapleton (Ep. 310)

The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast

Directors Guild of America

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4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Director Philippe Lacôte discusses his new film, Night of the Kings, with fellow director Alex Stapleton in a virtual Q&A. Set in Ivory Coast’s MACA Prison — an institute ruled by its inmates — the film tells the story of an ailing inmate king who assigns a young new prisoner to entertain the population with stories, but the ritual storyteller must keep the tales going all night long or forfeit his own life. Please note spoilers are included. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://www.dga.org/Events/2021/September2021/GCS_NightoftheKings_0721.aspx

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0:00.0	Always, I try to ask, not to show violence, but ask something about violence.
0:07.0	It's for this. I play with the fear, the climax of violence, but it's not useful for me to show violence.
0:16.0	It's more important to think about violence.
0:26.3	Hello, and welcome back to the director's cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.
0:31.5	In this episode, director Philippe Lacotte takes us behind the scenes of his new drama from Ivory Coast, Night of the Kings. Set in Ivory Coast's La Macca Prison, an institute ruled by its inmates.
0:38.8	The film tells the story of an ailing inmate king, who assigns a young new prisoner to entertain
0:43.3	the population with stories, but the ritual storyteller must keep the tales going all night long,
0:48.5	or forfeit his own life.
0:50.8	Night of the Kings was screened as part of the DGA's Global Cinema Series, which aims to spotlight landmark foreign films by presenting screenings of contemporary, classic, and independent films, as well as conversations with their directors.
1:04.0	Night of the Kings earned Mr. Lacot the Amplify Voices Award at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, and was the official submission
1:12.4	of Ivory Coast for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards.
1:17.6	His other directorial credits include the feature films Run and African Metropolis, the
1:23.0	documentaries Chronicles of War in the Ivory Coast, and Cairo Hours, and episodes of the documentary
1:29.1	miniseries, Slavery Roots. Following the Global Cinema Series screening of the film at the DGA
1:35.3	Theatre in Los Angeles, Mr. LaCote spoke with director Alex Stapleton about filming Night of the Kings
1:40.8	via video from Ivory Coast. Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.
1:48.4	We want to thank you. It is 3.30 in the morning? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, I think that the audience,
1:57.3	the members here, had a lovely time watching this film. Maybe lovely is not the right
2:02.8	word, but, um, so I just wanted to dive right in so we don't keep you up all in the middle
2:07.8	of the night. Um, so I wanted to start with the open, um, the first scene of the film, because it
2:14.2	does so much. From the start, you lay the groundwork of the rules of this society that we're about to be
2:20.2	immersed in.
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