Prizes worth a combined €270,000 were awarded to 17 projects.
TorinoFilmLab’s co-production market Tfl Meeting Event has awarded prizes worth a combined €270,000 to 17 projects at its 2023 edition, which concluded on Saturday (November 25).
Scroll down for full list of prizes
Thirty projects were pitched over two days at the event in Turin - 20 titles from Tfl’s nine-month scriptwriting programme ScriptLab and another 10 from its FeatureLab strand for films at a more advanced stage.
Four FeatureLab projects were awarded production and co-production awards – worth a combined €180,000 - by a jury that included mk2 Films’ Olivier Barbier and El Gouna programmer Andrew Mohsen.
TorinoFilmLab’s co-production market Tfl Meeting Event has awarded prizes worth a combined €270,000 to 17 projects at its 2023 edition, which concluded on Saturday (November 25).
Scroll down for full list of prizes
Thirty projects were pitched over two days at the event in Turin - 20 titles from Tfl’s nine-month scriptwriting programme ScriptLab and another 10 from its FeatureLab strand for films at a more advanced stage.
Four FeatureLab projects were awarded production and co-production awards – worth a combined €180,000 - by a jury that included mk2 Films’ Olivier Barbier and El Gouna programmer Andrew Mohsen.
- 11/27/2023
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Swedish director Ruben Östlund has been announced as a guest of honor at the 15th edition of France’s Les Arcs Film Festival, in the role of its Talent Village Ambassador.
The two-time Cannes d’Or winner has a strong connection with the festival’s Alpine setting, having shot his breakthrough 2014 feature Force Majeure in and around the Les Arcs ski resort, and he has also attended the festival as its jury president in 2018.
Previously announced high-profile guests of this year’s edition of Les Arcs, running from December 16 to 23, include Iranian director Asghar Farhadi as president of the jury.
In his role of Talent Village Ambassador, Östlund will meet with eight emerging directors selected for the sixth edition of Les Arcs’ Talent Village and also give a masterclass.
The Talent Village takes place under the auspices of the Les Arcs Industry Village, running from December 16 to 19.
The program has...
The two-time Cannes d’Or winner has a strong connection with the festival’s Alpine setting, having shot his breakthrough 2014 feature Force Majeure in and around the Les Arcs ski resort, and he has also attended the festival as its jury president in 2018.
Previously announced high-profile guests of this year’s edition of Les Arcs, running from December 16 to 23, include Iranian director Asghar Farhadi as president of the jury.
In his role of Talent Village Ambassador, Östlund will meet with eight emerging directors selected for the sixth edition of Les Arcs’ Talent Village and also give a masterclass.
The Talent Village takes place under the auspices of the Les Arcs Industry Village, running from December 16 to 19.
The program has...
- 11/2/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker will share advice and experiences with up and coming directing talents.
Two-time Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker Ruben Ostlund will be guest of honour at the sixth Talent Village of France’s Les Arcs Film festival and will mentor this year’s selection of eight first-time feature directors.
Part of the festival’s Industry Village, the four-day development initiative is aimed at helping emerging filmmakers make their feature debuts and will run from December 16-19 in the French Alps mountain town.
The eight directors taking part in the development initiative have made short films that have played...
Two-time Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker Ruben Ostlund will be guest of honour at the sixth Talent Village of France’s Les Arcs Film festival and will mentor this year’s selection of eight first-time feature directors.
Part of the festival’s Industry Village, the four-day development initiative is aimed at helping emerging filmmakers make their feature debuts and will run from December 16-19 in the French Alps mountain town.
The eight directors taking part in the development initiative have made short films that have played...
- 11/2/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
GKids has North American rights to the Cannes and Annecy title.
GKids has scooped North American rights to stylish space-set French animation feature Mars Express from mk2 Films, which has also sold the film to other key territories worldwide.
Jérémie Périn’s debut feature, which premiered in Cannes and played in competition at Annecy, is an action-driven futuristic film noir that blends 2D and 3D animation and poses questions about humanity’s relationship with AI.
GKids will release the film in theatres in its original French language in addition to a new English-dubbed version in 2024 following a November 22 release in France via Gebeka Films.
GKids has scooped North American rights to stylish space-set French animation feature Mars Express from mk2 Films, which has also sold the film to other key territories worldwide.
Jérémie Périn’s debut feature, which premiered in Cannes and played in competition at Annecy, is an action-driven futuristic film noir that blends 2D and 3D animation and poses questions about humanity’s relationship with AI.
GKids will release the film in theatres in its original French language in addition to a new English-dubbed version in 2024 following a November 22 release in France via Gebeka Films.
- 10/26/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Animation distributor negotiated deal with mk2.
GKids has acquired North American rights to Jérémie Perin’s Cannes and Annecy selection Mars Express.
‘Mars Express’: Annecy Review
Perin’s debut feature is set in 2200 as private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker.
On Mars, they descend into the underbelly of the planet’s capital city where they uncover a darker story of brain farms, corruption, and a missing girl who holds a secret about the robots that threatens to change the fate of the universe.
GKids has acquired North American rights to Jérémie Perin’s Cannes and Annecy selection Mars Express.
‘Mars Express’: Annecy Review
Perin’s debut feature is set in 2200 as private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker.
On Mars, they descend into the underbelly of the planet’s capital city where they uncover a darker story of brain farms, corruption, and a missing girl who holds a secret about the robots that threatens to change the fate of the universe.
- 10/26/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Gkids has acquired North American rights to Mars Express, the French animated feature from first-timer Jérémie Perin, which was an official selection this year of both Cannes and Annecy.
The acquisition comes following Gkids’ local distribution of the film The Rabbi’s Cat, which Perin helped develop. His sci-fi noir will hit theaters in its original French language and a new English dub in 2024, following a domestic release in France this November.
A 2D/3D hybrid that recently had its U.S. premiere at Animation is Film Festival in Los Angeles, Mars Express watches as private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker in the year 2200. On Mars, they descend deep into the underbelly of the planet’s capital city where they uncover a darker story of brain farms, corruption, and a missing girl who holds a...
The acquisition comes following Gkids’ local distribution of the film The Rabbi’s Cat, which Perin helped develop. His sci-fi noir will hit theaters in its original French language and a new English dub in 2024, following a domestic release in France this November.
A 2D/3D hybrid that recently had its U.S. premiere at Animation is Film Festival in Los Angeles, Mars Express watches as private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker in the year 2200. On Mars, they descend deep into the underbelly of the planet’s capital city where they uncover a darker story of brain farms, corruption, and a missing girl who holds a...
- 10/26/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen, who won the Cannes Grand Prize for Compartment No. 6 in 2021, will be guest of honor at the fifth Talent Village of France’s Les Arcs Film Festival, running December 10-17 in the French Alps.
The three-day meeting running within the festival’s industry program will support eight emerging European directors and consists of workshops and one-on-one meetings aimed at advancing their short and feature-length works.
Kuosmanen, whose credits also include the Cannes 2016 Un Certain Regard award winner The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki, will attend in the role of Talent Village Ambassador and will meet and mentor all the participants.
Other industry professionals acting as tutors will include Danish producer Katrin Pors of Copenhagen-based production company Snowglobe; Olivier Barbier, Head of Acquisitions at France’s mk2 films, Locarno Film Festival programmer and Festival Scope co-founder Mathilde Henrot and music supervisor Martin Caraux from...
The three-day meeting running within the festival’s industry program will support eight emerging European directors and consists of workshops and one-on-one meetings aimed at advancing their short and feature-length works.
Kuosmanen, whose credits also include the Cannes 2016 Un Certain Regard award winner The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki, will attend in the role of Talent Village Ambassador and will meet and mentor all the participants.
Other industry professionals acting as tutors will include Danish producer Katrin Pors of Copenhagen-based production company Snowglobe; Olivier Barbier, Head of Acquisitions at France’s mk2 films, Locarno Film Festival programmer and Festival Scope co-founder Mathilde Henrot and music supervisor Martin Caraux from...
- 11/3/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen named as Talent Village ambassador.
Les Arcs Film Festival’s industry programme has selected eight emerging directors for its Talent Village initiative and has named Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen as its Talent Village ambassador.
The programme, consisting of workshops and meetings, is designed to help the directors move from short to feature-length projects, with a particular attention given to industry issues and international aspects of the projects.
Kuosmanen won the Grand Prix in Cannes in 2021 for Compartment N°6, a follow-up to his Un Certain Regard film The Happiest Day In The Life of Olli Mäki...
Les Arcs Film Festival’s industry programme has selected eight emerging directors for its Talent Village initiative and has named Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen as its Talent Village ambassador.
The programme, consisting of workshops and meetings, is designed to help the directors move from short to feature-length projects, with a particular attention given to industry issues and international aspects of the projects.
Kuosmanen won the Grand Prix in Cannes in 2021 for Compartment N°6, a follow-up to his Un Certain Regard film The Happiest Day In The Life of Olli Mäki...
- 11/2/2022
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Click here to read the full article.
As the independent movie world returns to Santa Monica for the 2022 American Film Market (Nov. 1-6) this week, it is with the air of a surgeon checking out a long-ailing parent. The cinema business, suspended on life support for the past two years due to Covid restrictions, is still far from healthy.
Studio blockbusters — the Top Guns, Minions and superhero tentpoles of this world — have done great since theaters reopened, but the market for art house and indie films remains shaky.
Even big, star-driven projects with studio distribution — see FilmNation and CAA’s ensemble actioner The 355 with or Roland Emmerich’s sci-fi disaster epic Moonfall from AGC Studios, distributed by Universal and Lionsgate, respectively — disappointed at the box office. With the bright, shiny exception that is A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, which recently crossed the 100 million mark worldwide, indie success stories have considerably more modest.
As the independent movie world returns to Santa Monica for the 2022 American Film Market (Nov. 1-6) this week, it is with the air of a surgeon checking out a long-ailing parent. The cinema business, suspended on life support for the past two years due to Covid restrictions, is still far from healthy.
Studio blockbusters — the Top Guns, Minions and superhero tentpoles of this world — have done great since theaters reopened, but the market for art house and indie films remains shaky.
Even big, star-driven projects with studio distribution — see FilmNation and CAA’s ensemble actioner The 355 with or Roland Emmerich’s sci-fi disaster epic Moonfall from AGC Studios, distributed by Universal and Lionsgate, respectively — disappointed at the box office. With the bright, shiny exception that is A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, which recently crossed the 100 million mark worldwide, indie success stories have considerably more modest.
- 11/1/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
28 selected projects pitched to sales agents and distributors.
A new documentary project from Prayers For The Stolen director Tatiana Huezo was among the prize-winners at the fifth edition of European Work in Progress (Ewip), held in Cologne October 17-19.
An international jury including mk2 films’ head of acquisitions Olivier Barbier, Directors’ Fortnight artistic director Julien Rejl and German director-producer-actress Saralisa Volm awarded in-kind prizes worth a total of €60,000, after the 28 selected projects had been pitched to sales agents and distributors.
The K13 Studios award of €10,000 in Dolby Atmos mixing went to Huezo’s documentary The Echo, a documentary about children...
A new documentary project from Prayers For The Stolen director Tatiana Huezo was among the prize-winners at the fifth edition of European Work in Progress (Ewip), held in Cologne October 17-19.
An international jury including mk2 films’ head of acquisitions Olivier Barbier, Directors’ Fortnight artistic director Julien Rejl and German director-producer-actress Saralisa Volm awarded in-kind prizes worth a total of €60,000, after the 28 selected projects had been pitched to sales agents and distributors.
The K13 Studios award of €10,000 in Dolby Atmos mixing went to Huezo’s documentary The Echo, a documentary about children...
- 10/19/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Click here to read the full article.
The European Works in Progress Cologne (Ewip) couldn’t have come at a better time.
For a European art house industry in crisis — box office revenues for specialty films remain well below pre-pandemic levels while the cost of producing films has only gone up —the need for exciting new “content” in the form of films that will draw audiences back to the theatres, has arguably never been greater.
For the past three days, some of Europe’s top festival programmers and international sales agents have gathered in the western German city to check out arthouse productions at various stages of development that promise to be the breakout projects of the coming months.
Programmers from the Cannes, Berlin, Venice and San Sebastián festivals, as well as from Karlovy Vary, Locarno, Tribeca and elsewhere, as well as sales heavyweights including mk2, The Match Factory, Charades...
The European Works in Progress Cologne (Ewip) couldn’t have come at a better time.
For a European art house industry in crisis — box office revenues for specialty films remain well below pre-pandemic levels while the cost of producing films has only gone up —the need for exciting new “content” in the form of films that will draw audiences back to the theatres, has arguably never been greater.
For the past three days, some of Europe’s top festival programmers and international sales agents have gathered in the western German city to check out arthouse productions at various stages of development that promise to be the breakout projects of the coming months.
Programmers from the Cannes, Berlin, Venice and San Sebastián festivals, as well as from Karlovy Vary, Locarno, Tribeca and elsewhere, as well as sales heavyweights including mk2, The Match Factory, Charades...
- 10/19/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
28 projects selected from over 150 submissions.
New features from Mexican director Amat Escalante and Mexican-San Salvadoran filmmaker Tatiana Huezo are among the 28 feature projects selected for the fifth edition of European Work in Progress Cologne (Ewip), the industry pitching event held from October 17-19 in the run-up to Film Festival Cologne.
Escalante will pitch Lost In The Night, about a man searching for those responsible for his mother’s disappearance, who encounters an incompetent justice system.
The Mexico-Germany-Netherlands-Denmark co-production is produced by Nicolas Celis and Fernanda de la Peza for Tres Tunas Cine. Escalante has previously directed four features including Venice and Toronto 2016 horror The Untamed.
New features from Mexican director Amat Escalante and Mexican-San Salvadoran filmmaker Tatiana Huezo are among the 28 feature projects selected for the fifth edition of European Work in Progress Cologne (Ewip), the industry pitching event held from October 17-19 in the run-up to Film Festival Cologne.
Escalante will pitch Lost In The Night, about a man searching for those responsible for his mother’s disappearance, who encounters an incompetent justice system.
The Mexico-Germany-Netherlands-Denmark co-production is produced by Nicolas Celis and Fernanda de la Peza for Tres Tunas Cine. Escalante has previously directed four features including Venice and Toronto 2016 horror The Untamed.
- 10/11/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The industry event will take place from October 17-19.
Vanja Kaludjercic, festival director of the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Julien Rejl, new director of Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, and Olivier Barbier, head of acquisitions at mk2 films, will sit on the jury of the fifth edition of the European Works In Progress Cologne (Ewip)
The industry event will take place from October 17-19, in the run up to Germany’s Cologne Film Festival (October 20-27). Thirty European co-productions will pitch to an international industry audience for several prizes worth a total of €52,500.
Also on the five-personjury is Saralisa Volm, a German filmmaker,...
Vanja Kaludjercic, festival director of the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Julien Rejl, new director of Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, and Olivier Barbier, head of acquisitions at mk2 films, will sit on the jury of the fifth edition of the European Works In Progress Cologne (Ewip)
The industry event will take place from October 17-19, in the run up to Germany’s Cologne Film Festival (October 20-27). Thirty European co-productions will pitch to an international industry audience for several prizes worth a total of €52,500.
Also on the five-personjury is Saralisa Volm, a German filmmaker,...
- 8/25/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The industry event will take place from October 17-19.
Vanja Kaludjercic, festival director of the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Julien Rejl, new director of Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, and Olivier Barbier, head of acquisitions at mk2 films, will sit on the jury of the fifth edition of the European Works In Progress Cologne (Ewip)
The industry event will take place from October 17-19, in the run up to Germany’s Cologne Film Festival (October 20-27). Thirty European co-productions will pitch to an international industry audience for several prizes worth a total of €52,500.
Also on the five-personjury is Saralisa Volm, a German filmmaker,...
Vanja Kaludjercic, festival director of the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Julien Rejl, new director of Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, and Olivier Barbier, head of acquisitions at mk2 films, will sit on the jury of the fifth edition of the European Works In Progress Cologne (Ewip)
The industry event will take place from October 17-19, in the run up to Germany’s Cologne Film Festival (October 20-27). Thirty European co-productions will pitch to an international industry audience for several prizes worth a total of €52,500.
Also on the five-personjury is Saralisa Volm, a German filmmaker,...
- 8/25/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Female ensemble-led work is second fiction feature of “demonic duo” behind Cat In The Wall.
Paris-based mk2 films has acquired world sales rights for Bulgarian directorial duo Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova’s new film Women Do Cry exploring Bulgaria’s complicated relationship with issues of gender and gender-based violence and featuring Borat 2 co-star Maria Bakalova in the cast.
The drama revolves around a family of women united by a shared trauma who confront the family patriarch’s troubling past, against the backdrop of anti-gender and anti-equality protests in Bulgaria.
It is Mileva and Kazakova’s second fiction feature...
Paris-based mk2 films has acquired world sales rights for Bulgarian directorial duo Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova’s new film Women Do Cry exploring Bulgaria’s complicated relationship with issues of gender and gender-based violence and featuring Borat 2 co-star Maria Bakalova in the cast.
The drama revolves around a family of women united by a shared trauma who confront the family patriarch’s troubling past, against the backdrop of anti-gender and anti-equality protests in Bulgaria.
It is Mileva and Kazakova’s second fiction feature...
- 3/3/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
MK2 Films has come on board to handle world sales on “House Arrest,” a satirical drama directed by critically acclaimed Russian helmer Aleksey German Jr. (“Dovlatov”) that tackles Russia’s judicial system.
“House Arrest” follows David, a Russian university professor who takes to social media to criticize his city’s administration and the Mayor’s dodgy dealings. But David soon finds himself accused of embezzlement and placed under house arrest. Despite the overbearing surveillance, double-crossing acquaintances, and growing media interest, David remains defiant and will not apologize.
“I came up with this project many years ago. The drama of a man fighting to keep his dignity,” said German Jr. “This film is an essential and intimate statement about what inner freedom is and how important it is to stay honest to yourself,” added the politically-engaged helmer.
German Jr.’s credits include “Paper Soldier,” which won Venice’s best director award,...
“House Arrest” follows David, a Russian university professor who takes to social media to criticize his city’s administration and the Mayor’s dodgy dealings. But David soon finds himself accused of embezzlement and placed under house arrest. Despite the overbearing surveillance, double-crossing acquaintances, and growing media interest, David remains defiant and will not apologize.
“I came up with this project many years ago. The drama of a man fighting to keep his dignity,” said German Jr. “This film is an essential and intimate statement about what inner freedom is and how important it is to stay honest to yourself,” added the politically-engaged helmer.
German Jr.’s credits include “Paper Soldier,” which won Venice’s best director award,...
- 3/2/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Star Wars star Daisy Ridley and Brit national treasure Stephen Fry have boarded the voice cast of The Inventor, a feature stop-motion animation about Leonardo da Vinci written and directed by Jim Capobianco, the Oscar-nominated scribe of Ratatouille.
Fry will voice da Vinci and Ridley will be the French Princess Marguerite. Pic will follow the life of the insatiably curious and headstrong inventor as he leaves Italy to join the French court, where he can experiment freely, inventing flying contraptions, incredible machines, and studying the human body. There, joined by the princess, he looks to answer the ultimate question – what is the meaning of it all?
Deadline can also reveal a first look at the movie below.
French major mk2 films is handling international rights with The Exchange overseeing the U.S. sale; the film will take part in next week’s Cannes Marche.
The $10M project is being...
Fry will voice da Vinci and Ridley will be the French Princess Marguerite. Pic will follow the life of the insatiably curious and headstrong inventor as he leaves Italy to join the French court, where he can experiment freely, inventing flying contraptions, incredible machines, and studying the human body. There, joined by the princess, he looks to answer the ultimate question – what is the meaning of it all?
Deadline can also reveal a first look at the movie below.
French major mk2 films is handling international rights with The Exchange overseeing the U.S. sale; the film will take part in next week’s Cannes Marche.
The $10M project is being...
- 6/19/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Schrameck piloted sales on titles including ’Personal Shopper’ and ’Portrait Of A Lady On Fire’.
Juliette Schrameck has announced she has left her role as managing director of Paris-based mk2 films after a decade at the company.
“I didn’t think I would be announcing this in such a particular period but I have decided to embark on a new professional project which will begin in a few months time,” Schrameck wrote in an email sent across the film industry on Thursday (April 9).
“Thanks to all of you, I have had some marvellous and intense years sharing cinema and discovering new distribution territories,...
Juliette Schrameck has announced she has left her role as managing director of Paris-based mk2 films after a decade at the company.
“I didn’t think I would be announcing this in such a particular period but I have decided to embark on a new professional project which will begin in a few months time,” Schrameck wrote in an email sent across the film industry on Thursday (April 9).
“Thanks to all of you, I have had some marvellous and intense years sharing cinema and discovering new distribution territories,...
- 4/9/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Juliette Schrameck, the managing director of French film group MK2 (“Portrait of a Young Lady on Fire”), has stepped down.
During Schrameck’s decade-long tenure, MK2 had five movies playing in competition at the Cannes Film Festival two years in a row, in 2018 and 2019. Last year’s competition titles included Mati Diop’s Grand Prize winner “Atlantics,” and Celine Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Young Lady on Fire,” which picked up Cannes’ best screenplay award and a Golden Globe nomination.
Schrameck was also highly involved in the development and co-production of many prestige projects, notably Pawel Pawlikowski ‘s Oscar-nominated “Cold War.”
Before being appointed managing director by MK2’s co-ceo Nathanael Karmitz in January 2015, Schrameck spearheaded international sales and acquisitions for the company for five years.
Schrameck announced her departure from the company on Thursday and said her new career chapter will soon begin. “I didn’t think the period...
During Schrameck’s decade-long tenure, MK2 had five movies playing in competition at the Cannes Film Festival two years in a row, in 2018 and 2019. Last year’s competition titles included Mati Diop’s Grand Prize winner “Atlantics,” and Celine Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Young Lady on Fire,” which picked up Cannes’ best screenplay award and a Golden Globe nomination.
Schrameck was also highly involved in the development and co-production of many prestige projects, notably Pawel Pawlikowski ‘s Oscar-nominated “Cold War.”
Before being appointed managing director by MK2’s co-ceo Nathanael Karmitz in January 2015, Schrameck spearheaded international sales and acquisitions for the company for five years.
Schrameck announced her departure from the company on Thursday and said her new career chapter will soon begin. “I didn’t think the period...
- 4/9/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Prizes go to Mihal Brezis and Oded Binnun’s Dead Language and Maya Dreifuss’ Highway 65.
Dead Language by husband-and-wife filmmakers Mihal Brezis and Oded Binnun clinched the new $18,000 Jerusalem Foundation Award at the 14th edition of Jerusalem Film Festival’s (Jff) Pitch Point event, established to connect Israeli filmmakers with international partners.
The story follows a 27-year-old woman who, while waiting for her husband at the airport, ends up driving a complete stranger to his hotel after he mistakes her for his assigned driver – a random, short-lived encounter that shakes up her life.
It is Brezis and Binnun’s second...
Dead Language by husband-and-wife filmmakers Mihal Brezis and Oded Binnun clinched the new $18,000 Jerusalem Foundation Award at the 14th edition of Jerusalem Film Festival’s (Jff) Pitch Point event, established to connect Israeli filmmakers with international partners.
The story follows a 27-year-old woman who, while waiting for her husband at the airport, ends up driving a complete stranger to his hotel after he mistakes her for his assigned driver – a random, short-lived encounter that shakes up her life.
It is Brezis and Binnun’s second...
- 7/30/2019
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Thunderbird Releasing picks up Cannes main prize winner.
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s family drama Shoplifters, winner of Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious Palme d’Or this year, has landed a UK distribution deal with Thunderbird Releasing.
Kore-eda’s seventh film to screen at Cannes beat Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War and Lee Chang-dong’s Burning to take the top honour from Cannes’ main competition this year.
Starring Sakura Ando and Mayu Matsuoka, the film tells the story of a shoplifting father-and-son duo and the little girl they take in from the street. Producers on the project are Kaoru Matsusaki,...
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s family drama Shoplifters, winner of Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious Palme d’Or this year, has landed a UK distribution deal with Thunderbird Releasing.
Kore-eda’s seventh film to screen at Cannes beat Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War and Lee Chang-dong’s Burning to take the top honour from Cannes’ main competition this year.
Starring Sakura Ando and Mayu Matsuoka, the film tells the story of a shoplifting father-and-son duo and the little girl they take in from the street. Producers on the project are Kaoru Matsusaki,...
- 5/23/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
2019 release set for English-language feature.
High Life, Claire Denis’ sci-fi drama starring Robert Pattinson, has been picked up for UK distribution by Thunderbird Releasing.
The film is Denis’ first English-language feature and follows a group of convicts assigned a difficult space mission in the belief they will be freed if they are successful. Juliette Binoche, Mia Goth and André Benjamin also star.
The deal was negotiated by Kevin Chan, acquisitions manager of Thunderbird Releasing, and Olivier Barbier from sales agent Wild Bunch. The film has been slated for a UK release in early 2019.
“It’s a hugely ambitious and daring...
High Life, Claire Denis’ sci-fi drama starring Robert Pattinson, has been picked up for UK distribution by Thunderbird Releasing.
The film is Denis’ first English-language feature and follows a group of convicts assigned a difficult space mission in the belief they will be freed if they are successful. Juliette Binoche, Mia Goth and André Benjamin also star.
The deal was negotiated by Kevin Chan, acquisitions manager of Thunderbird Releasing, and Olivier Barbier from sales agent Wild Bunch. The film has been slated for a UK release in early 2019.
“It’s a hugely ambitious and daring...
- 5/4/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Eva Diederix has been appointed head of international sales at Paris-based Wild Bunch, the company has announced.
She will take up her new role at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French cinema in Paris this week (January 12-16).
Diederix replaces former head of sales Carole Baraton who is leaving to set-up her own sales company.
In her new role, Diederix will supervise the sales team and oversee the operation internally. Vincent Maraval will continue to supervise Wild Bunch acquisitions and marketing.
Diederix comes from Wild Bunch associate company Elle Driver, which she co-founded with Adeline Fontan Tessaur in 2008.
Fontan Tessaur will remain at the head of that company, overseeing its sales activities and development.
Prior to setting up Elle Driver, Diederix was head of international sales at Sogepaq in Spain from 1998 to 2002 and then at Ugc from 2002 to 2007.
As previously announced, Baraton’s long-time territories the Us, France and the UK will be carved up between the sales...
She will take up her new role at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French cinema in Paris this week (January 12-16).
Diederix replaces former head of sales Carole Baraton who is leaving to set-up her own sales company.
In her new role, Diederix will supervise the sales team and oversee the operation internally. Vincent Maraval will continue to supervise Wild Bunch acquisitions and marketing.
Diederix comes from Wild Bunch associate company Elle Driver, which she co-founded with Adeline Fontan Tessaur in 2008.
Fontan Tessaur will remain at the head of that company, overseeing its sales activities and development.
Prior to setting up Elle Driver, Diederix was head of international sales at Sogepaq in Spain from 1998 to 2002 and then at Ugc from 2002 to 2007.
As previously announced, Baraton’s long-time territories the Us, France and the UK will be carved up between the sales...
- 1/10/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Paris-based company reshuffles sales team as Carole Baraton steps down as head of sales.
Wild Bunch will launch sales on new films by Jean-Luc Godard, Christian Carion, Michel Ocelot, Raymond Depardon as well as a feel-good, Senegal-set drama starring Omar Sy at Unifrance’s upcoming Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris (Jan 12-16).
The event will also mark the first outing for the company’s reconfigured sales team following Carole Baraton’s decision to step down as head of sales to set-up her own company.
Baraton’s long-time territories the Us, France and the UK will be carved up between the sales team, now consisting of Silvia Simonutti, Emilie Serres, Olivier Barbier, recent hire Fanny Beauville and Esther Devos for festivals.
Notably, Beauville will co-handle Canada and the Us in partnership with La’s Creative Artist Agency (CAA), working closely with the agency’s film finance and sales group co-chief Roeg Sutherland and his team.
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Wild Bunch will launch sales on new films by Jean-Luc Godard, Christian Carion, Michel Ocelot, Raymond Depardon as well as a feel-good, Senegal-set drama starring Omar Sy at Unifrance’s upcoming Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris (Jan 12-16).
The event will also mark the first outing for the company’s reconfigured sales team following Carole Baraton’s decision to step down as head of sales to set-up her own company.
Baraton’s long-time territories the Us, France and the UK will be carved up between the sales team, now consisting of Silvia Simonutti, Emilie Serres, Olivier Barbier, recent hire Fanny Beauville and Esther Devos for festivals.
Notably, Beauville will co-handle Canada and the Us in partnership with La’s Creative Artist Agency (CAA), working closely with the agency’s film finance and sales group co-chief Roeg Sutherland and his team.
Bilingual...
- 12/27/2016
- ScreenDaily
The distributor has picked up Kore-eda Hirokazu’s drama ahead of its North American premiere in Toronto’s Masters programme next month.
After The Storm stars Abe Hiroshi as a struggling novellist who tries to reconnect with his mother, ex-wife and young son as a typhoon approaches.
The film premiered in Un Certain Regard in Cannes. Kiki Kilin, Maki Yoko and Yoshizawa Taiyo also star.
Film Movement plans a February 2017 theatrical launch followed by digital and home video roll-out.
President Michael E. Rosenberg negotiated the deal with Olivier Barbier of Wild Bunch.
“[Hirokazu’s] comparison to Ozu is aptly deserved, as he captures the great sensei’s humanistic spirit in his stories and in the details,” said Rosenberg.
After The Storm stars Abe Hiroshi as a struggling novellist who tries to reconnect with his mother, ex-wife and young son as a typhoon approaches.
The film premiered in Un Certain Regard in Cannes. Kiki Kilin, Maki Yoko and Yoshizawa Taiyo also star.
Film Movement plans a February 2017 theatrical launch followed by digital and home video roll-out.
President Michael E. Rosenberg negotiated the deal with Olivier Barbier of Wild Bunch.
“[Hirokazu’s] comparison to Ozu is aptly deserved, as he captures the great sensei’s humanistic spirit in his stories and in the details,” said Rosenberg.
- 8/22/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights for Alain Guiraudie’s Competition entry Staying Vertical and plans an early 2017 theatrical release.
The sexually explicit dark comedy stars Damien Bonnard as a film-maker struggling to complete his screenplay. Sylvie Pilat and Benoit Quainon produced.
Strand’s Marcus Hu and Jon Gerrans brokered the deal with Wild Bunch’s Carole Baraton and Olivier Barbier.
“We’re thrilled to be handling Alain’s latest film,” said Hu. “Alain’s unique and personal vision is a great addition to this year’s main competition and he’s definitely an auteur that we love.”
“Strand is the perfect home for Staying Vertical,” said Baraton. “As we’ve worked for Strand for over 20 years, it’s a pleasure to have another auteur driven film in their library.”...
The sexually explicit dark comedy stars Damien Bonnard as a film-maker struggling to complete his screenplay. Sylvie Pilat and Benoit Quainon produced.
Strand’s Marcus Hu and Jon Gerrans brokered the deal with Wild Bunch’s Carole Baraton and Olivier Barbier.
“We’re thrilled to be handling Alain’s latest film,” said Hu. “Alain’s unique and personal vision is a great addition to this year’s main competition and he’s definitely an auteur that we love.”
“Strand is the perfect home for Staying Vertical,” said Baraton. “As we’ve worked for Strand for over 20 years, it’s a pleasure to have another auteur driven film in their library.”...
- 5/15/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights for Alain Guiraudie’s Competition entry Staying Vertical and plans an early 2017 theatrical release.
The sexually explicit dark comedy stars Damien Bonnard as a film-maker struggling to complete his screenplay. Sylvie Pilat and Benoit Quainon produced.
Strand’s Marcus Hu and Jon Gerrans brokered the deal with Wild Bunch’s Carole Baraton and Olivier Barbier.
“We’re thrilled to be handling Alain’s latest film,” said Hu. “Alain’s unique and personal vision is a great addition to this year’s main competition and he’s definitely an auteur that we love.”
“Strand is the perfect home for Staying Vertical,” said Baraton. “As we’ve worked for Strand for over 20 years, it’s a pleasure to have another auteur driven film in their library.”...
The sexually explicit dark comedy stars Damien Bonnard as a film-maker struggling to complete his screenplay. Sylvie Pilat and Benoit Quainon produced.
Strand’s Marcus Hu and Jon Gerrans brokered the deal with Wild Bunch’s Carole Baraton and Olivier Barbier.
“We’re thrilled to be handling Alain’s latest film,” said Hu. “Alain’s unique and personal vision is a great addition to this year’s main competition and he’s definitely an auteur that we love.”
“Strand is the perfect home for Staying Vertical,” said Baraton. “As we’ve worked for Strand for over 20 years, it’s a pleasure to have another auteur driven film in their library.”...
- 5/15/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Philippe Garrel’s film set to open Directors Fortnight
Distrib Films Us has announced its acquisition of Us rights to Philippe Garrel’s In the Shadow of Women ahead of its premiere as the opening film of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight this week.
The deal was negotiated between François Scippa-Kohn, president of Distrib Films Us, and Carole Baraton and Olivier Barbier of Wild Bunch.
In the Shadow of Women revolves around a low-budget documentary-maker who dumps his mistress after he discovers his long-term partner has a lover too.
Garrel is a Directors’ Fortnight habitué having screened his early film The Virgin’s Bed at the first edition of the then renegade parallel sidebar in 1969.
Distrib Films Us released Garrel’s previous film Jealousy last summer.
“We’re thrilled to continue to bring the films of Philippe Garrel to American audiences,” said Scippa Kohn.
“This is the first time we have acquired a film at script stage but the...
Distrib Films Us has announced its acquisition of Us rights to Philippe Garrel’s In the Shadow of Women ahead of its premiere as the opening film of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight this week.
The deal was negotiated between François Scippa-Kohn, president of Distrib Films Us, and Carole Baraton and Olivier Barbier of Wild Bunch.
In the Shadow of Women revolves around a low-budget documentary-maker who dumps his mistress after he discovers his long-term partner has a lover too.
Garrel is a Directors’ Fortnight habitué having screened his early film The Virgin’s Bed at the first edition of the then renegade parallel sidebar in 1969.
Distrib Films Us released Garrel’s previous film Jealousy last summer.
“We’re thrilled to continue to bring the films of Philippe Garrel to American audiences,” said Scippa Kohn.
“This is the first time we have acquired a film at script stage but the...
- 5/11/2015
- ScreenDaily
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