Writers’ Development
The U.K.’s National Film and Television School (Nfts) has partnered with “The Crown” producer Left Bank Pictures on the Nfts Diverse Writers Development Program that kicks off in March 2024. It will select six emerging U.K. screenwriters from under-represented backgrounds to contribute their voices to the entertainment landscape and inject fresh perspectives into scripted drama.
The chosen writers will embark on a paid 10-week program, during which four full series ideas will be developed and pitched, with the aim of creating commercially viable television drama concepts. The participants will work through a curriculum designed by the Nfts. The initiative will connect writers with production executives from Left Bank Pictures and potentially other British production companies.
Applications are open now and close Oct. 31.
Promotion
Alexandre Moreau has been promoted to head of sales at Paris-based company Memento International. The executive will oversee Memento International’s slate of films and strategy,...
The U.K.’s National Film and Television School (Nfts) has partnered with “The Crown” producer Left Bank Pictures on the Nfts Diverse Writers Development Program that kicks off in March 2024. It will select six emerging U.K. screenwriters from under-represented backgrounds to contribute their voices to the entertainment landscape and inject fresh perspectives into scripted drama.
The chosen writers will embark on a paid 10-week program, during which four full series ideas will be developed and pitched, with the aim of creating commercially viable television drama concepts. The participants will work through a curriculum designed by the Nfts. The initiative will connect writers with production executives from Left Bank Pictures and potentially other British production companies.
Applications are open now and close Oct. 31.
Promotion
Alexandre Moreau has been promoted to head of sales at Paris-based company Memento International. The executive will oversee Memento International’s slate of films and strategy,...
- 10/2/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
France has submitted The Taste of Things as its candidate for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards, in a major upset after Justine Triet’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner and hot favorite Anatomy of a Fall was shut out.
The period drama The Taste of Things revolves around a culinary love affair between a dutiful cook and her gourmet employee, played by Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel, respectively.
Vietnam-born French director Tran Anh Hung broke out internationally with debut film The Scent of Green Papaya. The drama was Vietnam’s entry to the then Foreign Language category at the 1994 Oscars and was nominated.
The Taste of Things world premiered in Competition at Cannes, where it was titled The Pot-Au-Feu. Anh Hung won Best Director at the fest. Sapan Studios and IFC Films hold U.S. rights.
Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall had been widely...
The period drama The Taste of Things revolves around a culinary love affair between a dutiful cook and her gourmet employee, played by Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel, respectively.
Vietnam-born French director Tran Anh Hung broke out internationally with debut film The Scent of Green Papaya. The drama was Vietnam’s entry to the then Foreign Language category at the 1994 Oscars and was nominated.
The Taste of Things world premiered in Competition at Cannes, where it was titled The Pot-Au-Feu. Anh Hung won Best Director at the fest. Sapan Studios and IFC Films hold U.S. rights.
Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall had been widely...
- 9/21/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Tran Anh Hung’s romantic food-themed period drama was among five features shortlisted.
France has chosen Tran Anh Hung’s romantic food-themed period drama The Taste of Things to represent the country in the best international film category at the 2024 Academy Awards.
Formerly titled The Pot-au-Feu, the film earned the French-Vietnamese filmmaker the best director prize in Cannes and was snapped up by IFC and Sapan Studio.
Set in late 19th century France, it stars Juliette Binoche as Eugenie, an esteemed cook who has been working for over 20 years for famed gourmet chef Dodin played by Benoît Magimel. As the food in the kitchen simmers,...
France has chosen Tran Anh Hung’s romantic food-themed period drama The Taste of Things to represent the country in the best international film category at the 2024 Academy Awards.
Formerly titled The Pot-au-Feu, the film earned the French-Vietnamese filmmaker the best director prize in Cannes and was snapped up by IFC and Sapan Studio.
Set in late 19th century France, it stars Juliette Binoche as Eugenie, an esteemed cook who has been working for over 20 years for famed gourmet chef Dodin played by Benoît Magimel. As the food in the kitchen simmers,...
- 9/21/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
France has officially selected “The Taste of Things” as its Oscars submission for Best International Feature at the 2024 Academy Awards in what may be a surprise for some following the race.
“The Taste of Things” (IFC Films stateside) debuted at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where filmmaker Trần Anh Hùng won the Best Director prize. But the French selection committee could’ve gone with the actual 2023 Cannes Palme d’Or winner, Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of Fall,” which has a better chance crossing over into other Oscars categories. That includes for lead actress contender Sandra Hüller, who also stars in the U.K.’s International submission, “The Zone of Interest.”
Smart crowdpleaser “The Taste of Things,” titled “The Pot-au-Feu” back at Cannes, stars Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel as two chefs who are lovers across 20 years in the 19th century. The film is an adaptation of Marcel Rouffe’s 1924 novel “The Passionate Epicure,...
“The Taste of Things” (IFC Films stateside) debuted at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where filmmaker Trần Anh Hùng won the Best Director prize. But the French selection committee could’ve gone with the actual 2023 Cannes Palme d’Or winner, Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of Fall,” which has a better chance crossing over into other Oscars categories. That includes for lead actress contender Sandra Hüller, who also stars in the U.K.’s International submission, “The Zone of Interest.”
Smart crowdpleaser “The Taste of Things,” titled “The Pot-au-Feu” back at Cannes, stars Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel as two chefs who are lovers across 20 years in the 19th century. The film is an adaptation of Marcel Rouffe’s 1924 novel “The Passionate Epicure,...
- 9/21/2023
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
In a surprising twist of events, France’s Oscar committee has chosen the culinary romance “The Taste of Things” over “Anatomy of a Fall,” Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winning film, to represent the country in the international feature film race.
“The Taste of Things” (previously titled “The Pot-au-Feu”) won best director at Cannes for French-Vietnamese filmmaker Trần Anh Hùng. Starring Juliette Binoche and Benoit Magimel, the period movie was bought by IFC Films and Sapan Studios.
“Anatomy of a Fall,” meanwhile, was acquired by Neon, the Oscar-maker behind “Parasite,” at Cannes. The movie has been thriving at the French box office with approximately 8 million euros grossed from nearly 1 million admissions. It’s one of the biggest B.O. scores for a Palme d’Or winning film in France in years.
Neon will release “Anatomy of a Fall” in the U.S. on Oct. 13 and is still committed to...
“The Taste of Things” (previously titled “The Pot-au-Feu”) won best director at Cannes for French-Vietnamese filmmaker Trần Anh Hùng. Starring Juliette Binoche and Benoit Magimel, the period movie was bought by IFC Films and Sapan Studios.
“Anatomy of a Fall,” meanwhile, was acquired by Neon, the Oscar-maker behind “Parasite,” at Cannes. The movie has been thriving at the French box office with approximately 8 million euros grossed from nearly 1 million admissions. It’s one of the biggest B.O. scores for a Palme d’Or winning film in France in years.
Neon will release “Anatomy of a Fall” in the U.S. on Oct. 13 and is still committed to...
- 9/21/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy and Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
The selection committee will now meet with the films’ producers, sales companies and US distributors.
Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or-winning Anatomy Of A Fall and The Taste Of Things by Cannes’ best director winner Tran Anh Hung have been shortlisted to be France’s entry to the international Oscar category, along with Clement Cogitore’s Sons Of Ramses, Thomas Cailley’s The Animal Kingdom and Denis Imbert’s On The Wandering Paths (Sur Les Chemins Noirs).
The five films were selected by a seven-member committee comprised of the US producer of Coda, Patrick Wachsberger, composer Alexandre Desplat, producer Charles Gillibert...
Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or-winning Anatomy Of A Fall and The Taste Of Things by Cannes’ best director winner Tran Anh Hung have been shortlisted to be France’s entry to the international Oscar category, along with Clement Cogitore’s Sons Of Ramses, Thomas Cailley’s The Animal Kingdom and Denis Imbert’s On The Wandering Paths (Sur Les Chemins Noirs).
The five films were selected by a seven-member committee comprised of the US producer of Coda, Patrick Wachsberger, composer Alexandre Desplat, producer Charles Gillibert...
- 9/13/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
“Anatomy of a Fall,” Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winning film, is one of the five movies shortlisted by France’s Oscars committee to represent the country in the international feature film race.
The movie, which was acquired by Neon at Cannes, was pre-selected alongside “The Taste of Things” (previously titled “The Pot-au-Feu”), a culinary romance starring Juliette Binoche which won best director at Cannes for French-Vietnamese filmmaker Trần Anh Hùng; Clement Cogitore’s “Sons of Ramses;” Thomas Cailley’s supernatural coming-of-age drama “The Animal Kingdom”; and Denis Imbert’s “On The Wandering Paths.” “The Animal Kingdom” was bought by Magnolia’s Magnet, while “The Taste of Things” was picked up by IFC Films and Sapan Studios. The selected movie will be unveiled on Sept. 21.
France hasn’t won an Oscar for best international film since Régis Wargnier’s “Indochine” in 1993 (it was then called best foreign-language film). Last year’s French entry,...
The movie, which was acquired by Neon at Cannes, was pre-selected alongside “The Taste of Things” (previously titled “The Pot-au-Feu”), a culinary romance starring Juliette Binoche which won best director at Cannes for French-Vietnamese filmmaker Trần Anh Hùng; Clement Cogitore’s “Sons of Ramses;” Thomas Cailley’s supernatural coming-of-age drama “The Animal Kingdom”; and Denis Imbert’s “On The Wandering Paths.” “The Animal Kingdom” was bought by Magnolia’s Magnet, while “The Taste of Things” was picked up by IFC Films and Sapan Studios. The selected movie will be unveiled on Sept. 21.
France hasn’t won an Oscar for best international film since Régis Wargnier’s “Indochine” in 1993 (it was then called best foreign-language film). Last year’s French entry,...
- 9/13/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
France has unveiled the five titles in the running to be its entry for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards.
The full shortlist is:
Anatomy Of A Fall by Justine Triet The Animal Kingdom by Thomas Cailley Sons of Ramses (Goutte d’Or) by Clement Cogitore (int’l sales, mk2 films) The Taste Of Things (previously The Pot-Au-Feu) by Tràn Anh Hùng On The Wondering Paths by Denis Imbert)
The short list was decided by a selection committee of film professionals on Wednesday in a process overseen by the country’s National Cinema Centre (Cnc).
This year’s committee features former Lionsgate film co-chief Patrick Wachsberger; international sales veterans Sabine Chemaly...
The full shortlist is:
Anatomy Of A Fall by Justine Triet The Animal Kingdom by Thomas Cailley Sons of Ramses (Goutte d’Or) by Clement Cogitore (int’l sales, mk2 films) The Taste Of Things (previously The Pot-Au-Feu) by Tràn Anh Hùng On The Wondering Paths by Denis Imbert)
The short list was decided by a selection committee of film professionals on Wednesday in a process overseen by the country’s National Cinema Centre (Cnc).
This year’s committee features former Lionsgate film co-chief Patrick Wachsberger; international sales veterans Sabine Chemaly...
- 9/13/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
France has named a heavyweight Oscar selection committee to decide its submission in the international feature film category at the 2024 Academy Awards.
France’s Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak has appointed a seven-person committee proposed by Dominique Boutonnat, president of French film board Cnc. They include composer Alexandre Desplat, whose 11 Oscar nominations have led to two wins for “The Shape of Water” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel”; former Lionsgate executive and producer Patrick Wachsberger, Oscar winner for “Coda”; and two-time Cesar winning producer Charles Gillibert.
The committee also includes Olivier Assayas, Cannes best director winner for “Personal Shopper”; Mounia Meddour, Cesar winner for “Papicha”; Sabine Chemaly, executive VP, international distribution, TF1 Studio; and Tanja Meissner, former head of international sales at Memento Films International.
Members of the committee will will meet twice, in the presence of Boutonnat and Gilles Pélisson president of film promotion body Unifrance, both of whom...
France’s Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak has appointed a seven-person committee proposed by Dominique Boutonnat, president of French film board Cnc. They include composer Alexandre Desplat, whose 11 Oscar nominations have led to two wins for “The Shape of Water” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel”; former Lionsgate executive and producer Patrick Wachsberger, Oscar winner for “Coda”; and two-time Cesar winning producer Charles Gillibert.
The committee also includes Olivier Assayas, Cannes best director winner for “Personal Shopper”; Mounia Meddour, Cesar winner for “Papicha”; Sabine Chemaly, executive VP, international distribution, TF1 Studio; and Tanja Meissner, former head of international sales at Memento Films International.
Members of the committee will will meet twice, in the presence of Boutonnat and Gilles Pélisson president of film promotion body Unifrance, both of whom...
- 8/11/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The French culture ministry on Friday unveiled the new committee that will pick the French movies to enter the Oscar race in the best international film category.
The group, which French culture minister Rima Abdul Malak announced, includes the Oscar-winning producer, and ex-Lionsgate top executive and Summit boss Patrick Wachsberger (Coda), two-time Oscar-winning composer Alexandre Desplat (The Shape of Water) and directors Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper) and Mounia Meddour (Papicha). From the film industry side, Tanja Meissner, head of sales and acquisitions at Memento Films International, and Europa International’s Sabine Chemaly will also get a vote on the French films that are submitted to the U.S. Academy.
France has overhauled its nomination process after an exceptionally long Oscar drought for Le Grand Nation. Of the last 10 French international Oscar submissions, only four made the final shortlist, and just two — Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang in 2015 and Ladj...
The group, which French culture minister Rima Abdul Malak announced, includes the Oscar-winning producer, and ex-Lionsgate top executive and Summit boss Patrick Wachsberger (Coda), two-time Oscar-winning composer Alexandre Desplat (The Shape of Water) and directors Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper) and Mounia Meddour (Papicha). From the film industry side, Tanja Meissner, head of sales and acquisitions at Memento Films International, and Europa International’s Sabine Chemaly will also get a vote on the French films that are submitted to the U.S. Academy.
France has overhauled its nomination process after an exceptionally long Oscar drought for Le Grand Nation. Of the last 10 French international Oscar submissions, only four made the final shortlist, and just two — Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang in 2015 and Ladj...
- 8/11/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The second year of the new-look committee.
Director Olivier Assayas, producer Patrick Wachsberger and composer Alexandre Desplat are among the seven-strong committee appointed by France’s Centre National du Cinema (Cnc) to select the country’s international feature Oscar entry.
Joining the trio on the committee are director Mounia Meddour; producer Charles Gillibert of CG Cinema; Sabine Chemaly, EVP of international distribution at TF1 Studio; and Tanja Meissner, former head of sales at Memento.
The committee is appointed by Rima Abdul Malak, French minister of culture, on the proposal of Cnc president Dominic Boutonnat.
The seven professionals will meet twice...
Director Olivier Assayas, producer Patrick Wachsberger and composer Alexandre Desplat are among the seven-strong committee appointed by France’s Centre National du Cinema (Cnc) to select the country’s international feature Oscar entry.
Joining the trio on the committee are director Mounia Meddour; producer Charles Gillibert of CG Cinema; Sabine Chemaly, EVP of international distribution at TF1 Studio; and Tanja Meissner, former head of sales at Memento.
The committee is appointed by Rima Abdul Malak, French minister of culture, on the proposal of Cnc president Dominic Boutonnat.
The seven professionals will meet twice...
- 8/11/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Former Lionsgate film co-chief Patrick Wachsberger has been named as one of the members of the selection committee that will decide the French entry for the Best International Film Oscar category this year.
He will be joined by international sales veterans Sabine Chemaly and Tanja Meissner, producer Charles Gillibert, directors Mounia Meddour and Olivier Assayas and composer Alexandre Desplat.
France has overhauled the composition of its Oscar entry selection committee twice in recent years to include more film industry professionals in a bid to improve its chances in the Best International Picture race.
The country last won the international film category with Régis Wargnier’s Indochine in 1993. Ladj Ly’s 2019 Cannes Jury Prize winner Les Misérables was the last French film to make it through to the final nomination stage for the 2020 awards, while Alice Diop’s Saint Omer made it onto the long list for the 2023 edition.
This year...
He will be joined by international sales veterans Sabine Chemaly and Tanja Meissner, producer Charles Gillibert, directors Mounia Meddour and Olivier Assayas and composer Alexandre Desplat.
France has overhauled the composition of its Oscar entry selection committee twice in recent years to include more film industry professionals in a bid to improve its chances in the Best International Picture race.
The country last won the international film category with Régis Wargnier’s Indochine in 1993. Ladj Ly’s 2019 Cannes Jury Prize winner Les Misérables was the last French film to make it through to the final nomination stage for the 2020 awards, while Alice Diop’s Saint Omer made it onto the long list for the 2023 edition.
This year...
- 8/11/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
ProducerLAND, a curated training and networking program for producers from South Asia, is bowing Ascent – a project accelerator designed to help experienced producers by providing them with global expertise and support to maximize their project’s potential.
Ascent is an immersive three-module program where six selected producers will develop their projects for international markets and audiences. The modules will focus on creative producing, audiences, funding, coproductions, positioning, markets and impact producing.
The first module is a residency in Goa, India from Jan. 29 – Feb. 5 where participants will interact with mentors and industry experts that have been brought on board to suit their specific projects, and develop them to be mounted as international projects.
The program’s lead mentor and curator is France’s Tanja Meissner, who was previously VP International Sales at Celluloid, and head of international sales at Memento.
Mentors also include Ajay Rai, U.K.-based producer and faculty...
Ascent is an immersive three-module program where six selected producers will develop their projects for international markets and audiences. The modules will focus on creative producing, audiences, funding, coproductions, positioning, markets and impact producing.
The first module is a residency in Goa, India from Jan. 29 – Feb. 5 where participants will interact with mentors and industry experts that have been brought on board to suit their specific projects, and develop them to be mounted as international projects.
The program’s lead mentor and curator is France’s Tanja Meissner, who was previously VP International Sales at Celluloid, and head of international sales at Memento.
Mentors also include Ajay Rai, U.K.-based producer and faculty...
- 1/23/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Residency in Goa in March aims to help participants produce local projects for international markets.
India’s The Storiculture Company is launching a networking and training programme for South Asian producers, with the aim of assisting them in producing local projects for international markets.
Entitled ProducerLAND 2021 (Learning and Network Development Program), the programme has been developed by India-based producer Celine Loop, along with international festival and sales strategist Tanja Meissner and French producer Marc Irmer.
The programme kicks off with a two-week immersive residency – scheduled to take place in a physical format in Goa at the end of March – which...
India’s The Storiculture Company is launching a networking and training programme for South Asian producers, with the aim of assisting them in producing local projects for international markets.
Entitled ProducerLAND 2021 (Learning and Network Development Program), the programme has been developed by India-based producer Celine Loop, along with international festival and sales strategist Tanja Meissner and French producer Marc Irmer.
The programme kicks off with a two-week immersive residency – scheduled to take place in a physical format in Goa at the end of March – which...
- 1/20/2021
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
The film stars Catherine Frot as a homeless woman who takes a lost Burkinabe boy under her wing.
Memento Films International (Mfi) has unveiled pre-sales on Claus Drexel’s French-language drama Under The Stars of Paris starring Catherine Frot, ahead of its market premiere at Unifrance’s Rendez-vous with French cinema in Paris this weekend.
The Paris-based sales company has pre-sold the film to a slew of European territories including Switzerland (Jmh distributions), Denmark (41 Shadows), Portugal (Outsider Films), Greece (Spentzos) and Bulgaria (6A Media).
It has also been acquired for Brazil (A2 Filmes), Mexico (Alamedia), China (QC Media), Taiwan...
Memento Films International (Mfi) has unveiled pre-sales on Claus Drexel’s French-language drama Under The Stars of Paris starring Catherine Frot, ahead of its market premiere at Unifrance’s Rendez-vous with French cinema in Paris this weekend.
The Paris-based sales company has pre-sold the film to a slew of European territories including Switzerland (Jmh distributions), Denmark (41 Shadows), Portugal (Outsider Films), Greece (Spentzos) and Bulgaria (6A Media).
It has also been acquired for Brazil (A2 Filmes), Mexico (Alamedia), China (QC Media), Taiwan...
- 1/17/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Casting underway ahead of spring production start.
After months of speculation the upcoming Roland Emmerich/Centropolis Entertainment sci-fi Moonfall has found a Chinese distributor and will be handled by Huayi Brothers.
The company will serve as executive produce and distribute the story about a scratch team sent to correct the Moon’s orbit after a mysterious force sends it hurtling on a collision course with Earth.
Agc International and CAA Media Finance brokered the deal after launching sales in Cannes last summer. Huayi Brothers and its partners, including Hong Kong affiliate Huayi Tencent Entertainment, will provide equity funding for the production.
After months of speculation the upcoming Roland Emmerich/Centropolis Entertainment sci-fi Moonfall has found a Chinese distributor and will be handled by Huayi Brothers.
The company will serve as executive produce and distribute the story about a scratch team sent to correct the Moon’s orbit after a mysterious force sends it hurtling on a collision course with Earth.
Agc International and CAA Media Finance brokered the deal after launching sales in Cannes last summer. Huayi Brothers and its partners, including Hong Kong affiliate Huayi Tencent Entertainment, will provide equity funding for the production.
- 1/17/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Company restructures staff as it enters 15th anniversary year.
Mathieu Delaunay has been promoted to head of sales at Paris-based company Memento Film International (Mfi), replacing Tanja Meissner who is stepping down from the role.
Former sales executive Alexandre Moreau has been promoted to VP of sales and marketing, taking the role previously held by Delaunay. The duo will oversee Mfi’s slate of films and marketing strategy, alongside company CEO and owner Emilie Georges.
The company is also expanding its sales team with the hiring of Derek Lui to lead sales in Asia,. Lui, who was named a Screen...
Mathieu Delaunay has been promoted to head of sales at Paris-based company Memento Film International (Mfi), replacing Tanja Meissner who is stepping down from the role.
Former sales executive Alexandre Moreau has been promoted to VP of sales and marketing, taking the role previously held by Delaunay. The duo will oversee Mfi’s slate of films and marketing strategy, alongside company CEO and owner Emilie Georges.
The company is also expanding its sales team with the hiring of Derek Lui to lead sales in Asia,. Lui, who was named a Screen...
- 1/16/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley are set to co-star in “My Salinger Year,” the big-screen adaptation of Joanna Rakoff’s international bestseller, which will be directed by Oscar-nominated Canadian director Philippe Falardeau.
Memento Films International (“Call Me by Your Name”) has come on board to handle international sales and is co-representing the U.S. rights with UTA Independent Film Group.
“This is a total crowd-pleaser that will draw a substantial audience,” said Tanja Meissner, head of international sales at Memento. “All the relevant ingredients are assembled: an irresistibly charming and tender story in which ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ meets the literary world.”
“My Salinger Year” will start shooting in Montreal and New York this Spring. Luc Déry and Kim McCraw from micro_scope are producing the film. The Canadian company’s critically acclaimed credits include Denis Villeneuve’s “Incendies” and “Enemy,” as well as Falardeau’s “Monsieur Lazhar,” which was...
Memento Films International (“Call Me by Your Name”) has come on board to handle international sales and is co-representing the U.S. rights with UTA Independent Film Group.
“This is a total crowd-pleaser that will draw a substantial audience,” said Tanja Meissner, head of international sales at Memento. “All the relevant ingredients are assembled: an irresistibly charming and tender story in which ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ meets the literary world.”
“My Salinger Year” will start shooting in Montreal and New York this Spring. Luc Déry and Kim McCraw from micro_scope are producing the film. The Canadian company’s critically acclaimed credits include Denis Villeneuve’s “Incendies” and “Enemy,” as well as Falardeau’s “Monsieur Lazhar,” which was...
- 2/8/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen’s second film following his Camera d’Or winner Ilo Ilo is nearing completion.
Screen can reveal a first look of Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen’s new film Wet Season.
It is Chen’s long-awaited second feature following his Cannes Camera d’Or winner Ilo Ilo, Malaysian actress Yeo Yann Yann, who also appeared in Ilo Ilo, stars as a Chinese language teacher whose home and work lives are coming apart at the seams as she struggles to conceive a child. Comfort arrives in the shape of an unlikely friendship with a young student played by...
Screen can reveal a first look of Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen’s new film Wet Season.
It is Chen’s long-awaited second feature following his Cannes Camera d’Or winner Ilo Ilo, Malaysian actress Yeo Yann Yann, who also appeared in Ilo Ilo, stars as a Chinese language teacher whose home and work lives are coming apart at the seams as she struggles to conceive a child. Comfort arrives in the shape of an unlikely friendship with a young student played by...
- 2/6/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Intelligent comedy about women’s liberation tale unfolds in all-girls school against the backdrop of May 1968.
Memento Films International (Mfi) will kick off sales on Martin Provost’s 1960s-set comedy-drama How To Be A Good Wife, starring Juliette Binoche, at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris this week (January 17-21).
Binoche will star as the co-head of an all-girls housekeeping school in a small town in the eastern French region of Alsace in the late 1960s. She runs the school alongside husband with the mission to train teenage girls to become perfect housewives. The schools were common in...
Memento Films International (Mfi) will kick off sales on Martin Provost’s 1960s-set comedy-drama How To Be A Good Wife, starring Juliette Binoche, at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris this week (January 17-21).
Binoche will star as the co-head of an all-girls housekeeping school in a small town in the eastern French region of Alsace in the late 1960s. She runs the school alongside husband with the mission to train teenage girls to become perfect housewives. The schools were common in...
- 1/14/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Filipino filmmaker explores Manila crime underworld in new thriller.
Memento Films International (Mfi) has boarded sales on Filipino director Brillante Mendoza’s Manila-set thriller Alpha, The Right To Kill, ahead of its world premiere in Competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival at the end of September.
Set against the backdrop of the Philippines government’s war on drugs, the thriller revolves around small-time pusher turned informant Elijah and corrupt police officer Espino. The pair provide intelligence for an operation to arrest one of Manila’s biggest drugs kingpins, Abel, in a hideout in the slums of Manila. The operation...
Memento Films International (Mfi) has boarded sales on Filipino director Brillante Mendoza’s Manila-set thriller Alpha, The Right To Kill, ahead of its world premiere in Competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival at the end of September.
Set against the backdrop of the Philippines government’s war on drugs, the thriller revolves around small-time pusher turned informant Elijah and corrupt police officer Espino. The pair provide intelligence for an operation to arrest one of Manila’s biggest drugs kingpins, Abel, in a hideout in the slums of Manila. The operation...
- 9/7/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Memento Films Boards Justin Kurzel’s ‘True History of the Kelly Gang’ With Russell Crowe (Exclusive)
Memento Films International has boarded “True History of the Kelly Gang,” a hotly anticipated project to be directed by Justin Kurzel (“Macbeth”), with Russell Crowe, George MacKay, Nicholas Hoult and Essie Davis to star.
Rolling off their success with Luca Guadagnino’s “Call Me by Your Name,” Memento and La Cinéfacture – the production banner launched by Memento founder Emilie Georges – are set to co-finance the picture together with Screen Australia and Film4, and in association with Film Victoria. Memento will handle international sales, beginning at Cannes.
Liz Watts at Porchlight Films and Hal Vogel at Daybreak Pictures are producing the film with Kurzel, whose previous film, “Assassin’s Creed” with Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, grossed more than $240 million worldwide. Paul Ranford is on board to co-produce. Kurzel will helm the film from a script by Shaun Grant, which has been reworked. The project is based on Peter Carey’s...
Rolling off their success with Luca Guadagnino’s “Call Me by Your Name,” Memento and La Cinéfacture – the production banner launched by Memento founder Emilie Georges – are set to co-finance the picture together with Screen Australia and Film4, and in association with Film Victoria. Memento will handle international sales, beginning at Cannes.
Liz Watts at Porchlight Films and Hal Vogel at Daybreak Pictures are producing the film with Kurzel, whose previous film, “Assassin’s Creed” with Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, grossed more than $240 million worldwide. Paul Ranford is on board to co-produce. Kurzel will helm the film from a script by Shaun Grant, which has been reworked. The project is based on Peter Carey’s...
- 4/30/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Memento Films International handles international sales.
Music Box Films has struck a deal for Us rights to Xavier Giannoli’s French mystery The Apparition at the Efm in Berlin.
The film drew more than 150,000 admissions in its first week of release in France earlier this month and marks Giannoli’s follow-up to multiple Cesar winner Marguerite.
The Apparition stars Vincent Lindon (The Measure Of A Man, Rodin) as Jacques, a grieving journalist hired by the Vatican to investigate an alleged saintly apparition in a small French village.
Upon his arrival, the reporter meets the young woman (Galatea Bellugi) who claims to have witnessed the apparition of the Virgin Mary. Jacques questions his beliefs when he is caught in between clergy and skeptics.
Music Box Films plans a theatrical rollout of The Apparition in late 2018, followed by home entertainment platforms. Music Box president William Schopf negotiated the deal with Tanja Meissner of Memento Film International, with whom Music Box...
Music Box Films has struck a deal for Us rights to Xavier Giannoli’s French mystery The Apparition at the Efm in Berlin.
The film drew more than 150,000 admissions in its first week of release in France earlier this month and marks Giannoli’s follow-up to multiple Cesar winner Marguerite.
The Apparition stars Vincent Lindon (The Measure Of A Man, Rodin) as Jacques, a grieving journalist hired by the Vatican to investigate an alleged saintly apparition in a small French village.
Upon his arrival, the reporter meets the young woman (Galatea Bellugi) who claims to have witnessed the apparition of the Virgin Mary. Jacques questions his beliefs when he is caught in between clergy and skeptics.
Music Box Films plans a theatrical rollout of The Apparition in late 2018, followed by home entertainment platforms. Music Box president William Schopf negotiated the deal with Tanja Meissner of Memento Film International, with whom Music Box...
- 2/27/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Memento Films International handles international sales.
Music Box Films has struck a deal for Us rights to Xavier Giannoli’s French mystery The Apparition at the Efm in Berlin.
The film drew more than 150,000 admissions in its first week of release in France earlier this month and marks Giannoli’s follow-up to multiple Cesar winner Marguerite.
The Apparition stars Vincent Lindon (The Measure Of A Man, Rodin) as Jacques, a grieving journalist hired by the Vatican to investigate an alleged saintly apparition in a small French village.
Upon his arrival, the reporter meets the young woman (Galatea Bellugi) who claims to have witnessed the apparition of the Virgin Mary. Jacques questions his beliefs when he is caught in between clergy and skeptics.
Music Box Films plans a theatrical rollout of The Apparition in late 2018, followed by home entertainment platforms. Music Box president William Schopf negotiated the deal with Tanja Meissner of Memento Film International, with whom Music Box...
Music Box Films has struck a deal for Us rights to Xavier Giannoli’s French mystery The Apparition at the Efm in Berlin.
The film drew more than 150,000 admissions in its first week of release in France earlier this month and marks Giannoli’s follow-up to multiple Cesar winner Marguerite.
The Apparition stars Vincent Lindon (The Measure Of A Man, Rodin) as Jacques, a grieving journalist hired by the Vatican to investigate an alleged saintly apparition in a small French village.
Upon his arrival, the reporter meets the young woman (Galatea Bellugi) who claims to have witnessed the apparition of the Virgin Mary. Jacques questions his beliefs when he is caught in between clergy and skeptics.
Music Box Films plans a theatrical rollout of The Apparition in late 2018, followed by home entertainment platforms. Music Box president William Schopf negotiated the deal with Tanja Meissner of Memento Film International, with whom Music Box...
- 2/27/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The films join slate also featuring Malgorzata Szumowska’s Mug and Nicolas Pesce S&M comedy Piercing.
Memento Films International (Mfi) has boarded world sales on Brazilian filmmaker Gabriel Mascaro’s “erotic gospel film” Overgod and French director Lou Jeunet’s Curiosa, set against the backdrop of the erotic photography scene in Belle Epoque Paris, ahead of the Efm.
The new acquisitions join an already impressive slate also featuring Malgorzata Szumowska’s Golden Bear contender Mug and Nicolas Pesce S&M comedy Piercing, which just made a buzzy debut at Sundance.
Described by Mascaro’s own production company Desvia as “an erotic gospel film”, Overgod revolves around Joana, a 40-year-old notary and devoted Evangelical Christian.
Outside her day job, Joana uses her biblical knowledge to bring estranged couples closer through their sexuality, inviting them to participate in the group sessions of ‘Divine Love’, a dissident wing of the local church focused on rescuing sexual enjoyment as a means...
Memento Films International (Mfi) has boarded world sales on Brazilian filmmaker Gabriel Mascaro’s “erotic gospel film” Overgod and French director Lou Jeunet’s Curiosa, set against the backdrop of the erotic photography scene in Belle Epoque Paris, ahead of the Efm.
The new acquisitions join an already impressive slate also featuring Malgorzata Szumowska’s Golden Bear contender Mug and Nicolas Pesce S&M comedy Piercing, which just made a buzzy debut at Sundance.
Described by Mascaro’s own production company Desvia as “an erotic gospel film”, Overgod revolves around Joana, a 40-year-old notary and devoted Evangelical Christian.
Outside her day job, Joana uses her biblical knowledge to bring estranged couples closer through their sexuality, inviting them to participate in the group sessions of ‘Divine Love’, a dissident wing of the local church focused on rescuing sexual enjoyment as a means...
- 2/8/2018
- ScreenDaily
Other ideas include government-subsidised tickets for youngsters and an ‘online film festival’.
Source: Iffr / Melanie Lemahieu
Four working groups at Rotterdam’s Reality Check conference came up with a list of actions that can improve content and audience diversity and engagement.
The closed working groups, each with up to 9 experts, presented their ideas in a public session that closed Reality Check, Iffr’s new distribution conference.
One especially popular suggested action point was creating a code of conduct for film festivals to have more diverse and inclusive juries, panel speakers and selection committees.
It was noted that festivals can do this immediately, on their own terms, without waiting for a global guideline to be established. Film experts were also encouraged to have their own personal code of conduct as well.
The other suggestions were:
A card for young people to watch arthouse films in cinemas, at specific times of day, for a nearly-free...
Source: Iffr / Melanie Lemahieu
Four working groups at Rotterdam’s Reality Check conference came up with a list of actions that can improve content and audience diversity and engagement.
The closed working groups, each with up to 9 experts, presented their ideas in a public session that closed Reality Check, Iffr’s new distribution conference.
One especially popular suggested action point was creating a code of conduct for film festivals to have more diverse and inclusive juries, panel speakers and selection committees.
It was noted that festivals can do this immediately, on their own terms, without waiting for a global guideline to be established. Film experts were also encouraged to have their own personal code of conduct as well.
The other suggestions were:
A card for young people to watch arthouse films in cinemas, at specific times of day, for a nearly-free...
- 1/30/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Two French sales companies make key hires.
Source: Memento
Alexandre Moreau
Paris-based Memento Films International (Mfi) has announced the hire of Alexandre Moreau to its sales team as part of a company reorganisation following the departure of former COO Nicolas Kaiser.
Moreau will report to Mfi sales and acquisition chief Tanja Meissner and handle sales in Asia, Middle East, Turkey and Portugal. He will also be in charge of library sales and some marketing activities.
Kaiser, a well-regarded figure in the French sales scene who worked for Mfi for just under a decade, left the company at the end of last December to pursue other interests.
Moreau arrives at Mfi from Versatile, where he spent five years working gaining experience in sales on films such as Santiago Mitre’s Paulina, Runar Runarsson’s Sparrows and Chris Peckover’s Better Watch Out.
“I’m truly delighted to join Memento and work with such a strong team and talented...
Source: Memento
Alexandre Moreau
Paris-based Memento Films International (Mfi) has announced the hire of Alexandre Moreau to its sales team as part of a company reorganisation following the departure of former COO Nicolas Kaiser.
Moreau will report to Mfi sales and acquisition chief Tanja Meissner and handle sales in Asia, Middle East, Turkey and Portugal. He will also be in charge of library sales and some marketing activities.
Kaiser, a well-regarded figure in the French sales scene who worked for Mfi for just under a decade, left the company at the end of last December to pursue other interests.
Moreau arrives at Mfi from Versatile, where he spent five years working gaining experience in sales on films such as Santiago Mitre’s Paulina, Runar Runarsson’s Sparrows and Chris Peckover’s Better Watch Out.
“I’m truly delighted to join Memento and work with such a strong team and talented...
- 1/15/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Two French sales companies make key hires.
Source: Memento
Alexandre Moreau
Paris-based Memento Films International (Mfi) has announced the hire of Alexandre Moreau to its sales team as part of a company reorganisation following the departure of former COO Nicolas Kaiser.
Moreau will report to Mfi sales and acquisition chief Tanja Meissner and handle sales in Asia, Middle East, Turkey and Portugal. He will also be in charge of library sales and some marketing activities.
Kaiser, a well-regarded figure in the French sales scene who worked for Mfi for just under a decade, left the company at the end of last December to pursue other interests.
Moreau arrives at Mfi from Versatile, where he spent five years working gaining experience in sales on films such as Santiago Mitre’s Paulina, Runar Runarsson’s Sparrows and Chris Peckover’s Better Watch Out.
“I’m truly delighted to join Memento and work with such a strong team and talented...
Source: Memento
Alexandre Moreau
Paris-based Memento Films International (Mfi) has announced the hire of Alexandre Moreau to its sales team as part of a company reorganisation following the departure of former COO Nicolas Kaiser.
Moreau will report to Mfi sales and acquisition chief Tanja Meissner and handle sales in Asia, Middle East, Turkey and Portugal. He will also be in charge of library sales and some marketing activities.
Kaiser, a well-regarded figure in the French sales scene who worked for Mfi for just under a decade, left the company at the end of last December to pursue other interests.
Moreau arrives at Mfi from Versatile, where he spent five years working gaining experience in sales on films such as Santiago Mitre’s Paulina, Runar Runarsson’s Sparrows and Chris Peckover’s Better Watch Out.
“I’m truly delighted to join Memento and work with such a strong team and talented...
- 1/15/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Wise Hassan, Asia take top prizes.
The winners from the 12th edition of Jerusalem Pitch Point have been unveiled at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
The initiative’s top prize, dubbed the Van Leer Award and worth $5,500 (20,000 Nis), went to Palestinian filmmaker Tawfik Abu Wael’s Wise Hassan.
A Tel Aviv-set thriller, the film marks the director’s third feature after Thirst (Atash), which premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2004, and Last Days In Jerusalem.
It is being produced by Baher Agbariya at Haifa-based Majdal Films, who presented the project alongside Abu Wael at the Jerusalem Pitch Point event on Sunday (July 16).
The Db & Opus Award, which comes with post-production services in the value of $15,000 (55,000 Nis), was presented to Ruthy Pribar’s Asia.
The project was presented by Yoav Roeh and Aurit Zamir of Tel-Aviv based Gum Films. It is currently completing financing ahead of production. The story will follow a 35-year-old mother who must face the death...
The winners from the 12th edition of Jerusalem Pitch Point have been unveiled at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
The initiative’s top prize, dubbed the Van Leer Award and worth $5,500 (20,000 Nis), went to Palestinian filmmaker Tawfik Abu Wael’s Wise Hassan.
A Tel Aviv-set thriller, the film marks the director’s third feature after Thirst (Atash), which premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2004, and Last Days In Jerusalem.
It is being produced by Baher Agbariya at Haifa-based Majdal Films, who presented the project alongside Abu Wael at the Jerusalem Pitch Point event on Sunday (July 16).
The Db & Opus Award, which comes with post-production services in the value of $15,000 (55,000 Nis), was presented to Ruthy Pribar’s Asia.
The project was presented by Yoav Roeh and Aurit Zamir of Tel-Aviv based Gum Films. It is currently completing financing ahead of production. The story will follow a 35-year-old mother who must face the death...
- 7/17/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Thirst and Last Days In Jerusalem director plots next project.
Palestinian filmmaker Tawfik Abu Wael is developing a Tel Aviv-set thriller spinning off the love story between a young man from the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm and a transgender prostitute he is sent to kill for collaborating with the Israeli secret services.
It will be Abu Wael’s third feature after Thirst (Atash), which premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2004, and Last Days In Jerusalem [pictured], which debuted in competition at the Locarno Film Festival in 2011.
Abu Wael and his long-time producer Baher Agbariya at Haifa-based Majdal Films presented the project at the Jerusalem Pitch Point event on Sunday aimed at connecting Israeli-funded productions with international partners.
“After two hardcore arthouse films, I’m trying to make a thriller,” he told the participants, who included top industry figures such as Protagonist Pictures CEO Michael Goodridge and Tanja Meissner, sales chief at Paris-based Memento Films International (Mfi).
The...
Palestinian filmmaker Tawfik Abu Wael is developing a Tel Aviv-set thriller spinning off the love story between a young man from the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm and a transgender prostitute he is sent to kill for collaborating with the Israeli secret services.
It will be Abu Wael’s third feature after Thirst (Atash), which premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2004, and Last Days In Jerusalem [pictured], which debuted in competition at the Locarno Film Festival in 2011.
Abu Wael and his long-time producer Baher Agbariya at Haifa-based Majdal Films presented the project at the Jerusalem Pitch Point event on Sunday aimed at connecting Israeli-funded productions with international partners.
“After two hardcore arthouse films, I’m trying to make a thriller,” he told the participants, who included top industry figures such as Protagonist Pictures CEO Michael Goodridge and Tanja Meissner, sales chief at Paris-based Memento Films International (Mfi).
The...
- 7/17/2017
- ScreenDaily
Thirst and Last Days In Jerusalem director plots next project.
Palestinian filmmaker Tawfik Abu Wael is developing a Tel Aviv-set thriller spinning off the love story between a young man from the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm and a transgender prostitute he is sent to kill for collaborating with the Israeli secret services.
It will be Abu Wael’s third feature after Thirst (Atash), which premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2004, and Last Days In Jerusalem [pictured], which debuted in competition at the Locarno Film Festival in 2011.
Abu Wael and his long-time producer Baher Agbariya at Haifa-based Majdal Films presented the project at the Jerusalem Pitch Point event on Sunday aimed at connecting Israeli-funded productions with international partners.
“After two hardcore arthouse films, I’m trying to make a thriller,” he told the participants, who included top industry figures such as Protagonist Pictures CEO Michael Goodridge and Tanja Meissner, sales chief at Paris-based Memento Films International (Mfi).
The...
Palestinian filmmaker Tawfik Abu Wael is developing a Tel Aviv-set thriller spinning off the love story between a young man from the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm and a transgender prostitute he is sent to kill for collaborating with the Israeli secret services.
It will be Abu Wael’s third feature after Thirst (Atash), which premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2004, and Last Days In Jerusalem [pictured], which debuted in competition at the Locarno Film Festival in 2011.
Abu Wael and his long-time producer Baher Agbariya at Haifa-based Majdal Films presented the project at the Jerusalem Pitch Point event on Sunday aimed at connecting Israeli-funded productions with international partners.
“After two hardcore arthouse films, I’m trying to make a thriller,” he told the participants, who included top industry figures such as Protagonist Pictures CEO Michael Goodridge and Tanja Meissner, sales chief at Paris-based Memento Films International (Mfi).
The...
- 7/17/2017
- ScreenDaily
Chinese neo-noir to open in autumn.
Strand Releasing has acquired all Us rights to Liu Jian’s Have A Nice Day which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival.
The animated neo-noir feature is set in a small town in Southern China as a young driver steals a bag containing $1m to save his fiancee’s failed plastic surgery.
The deal was done between Jon Gerrans of Strand Releasing and Tanja Meissner of the film’s international sales agent Memento Films International.
“We are very excited that Have A Nice Day is coming out theatrically in the Us, Strand is...
Strand Releasing has acquired all Us rights to Liu Jian’s Have A Nice Day which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival.
The animated neo-noir feature is set in a small town in Southern China as a young driver steals a bag containing $1m to save his fiancee’s failed plastic surgery.
The deal was done between Jon Gerrans of Strand Releasing and Tanja Meissner of the film’s international sales agent Memento Films International.
“We are very excited that Have A Nice Day is coming out theatrically in the Us, Strand is...
- 6/22/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Director with focus on Aboriginal culture revisits western genre from indigenous perspective.
Memento Films International has taken on world sales of Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country, an Australian frontier drama set in the 1920s told from an aboriginal perspective.
The film is scheduled to shoot mid-November in Alice Springs, Australia and will be ready for Cannes 2017. The confirmed cast includes Sam Neill, Bryan Brown and Ewen Leslie.
Memento will be starting sales at script stage at Afm. Manuel Chiche’s Paris-based The Jokers has already taken French Rights.
“The project resonates so much with today’s issues of injustice and racism, it’s uncanny. The script manages at the same time to pack a lot of action and to paint a subtle (and quite hard) portrait of a nation being built,” commented Mfi sales chief Tanja Meissner.
It marks a third feature for Thornton after Samson & Delilah, which won the Caméra d’Or in Cannes in 2009, and...
Memento Films International has taken on world sales of Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country, an Australian frontier drama set in the 1920s told from an aboriginal perspective.
The film is scheduled to shoot mid-November in Alice Springs, Australia and will be ready for Cannes 2017. The confirmed cast includes Sam Neill, Bryan Brown and Ewen Leslie.
Memento will be starting sales at script stage at Afm. Manuel Chiche’s Paris-based The Jokers has already taken French Rights.
“The project resonates so much with today’s issues of injustice and racism, it’s uncanny. The script manages at the same time to pack a lot of action and to paint a subtle (and quite hard) portrait of a nation being built,” commented Mfi sales chief Tanja Meissner.
It marks a third feature for Thornton after Samson & Delilah, which won the Caméra d’Or in Cannes in 2009, and...
- 11/3/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Sales launch in Cannes on Trier’s first genrefilm
Memento Films International (Mfi) has boarded sales on Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s romantic supernatural thriller Thelma about a young woman unaware that she possesses frightening powers.
After his English-language Louder Than Bombs, Trier has returned home for the Norwegian-language thriller, which is due to shoot in Oslo this autumn.
“This is an exciting new departure for Trier,” said producer Thomas Robsahm at Oslo-based Motlys, who is lead producing.
“The remarkably constructed and suspenseful script manages to find an original new take on genre material without losing any of Trier’s unique and personal touch. The film will be Trier’s most visually ambitious project to date, with striking VFX.”
Alexandre Mallet-Guy of Memento Films Production in France, Mikkel Jersin at Denmark’s Snowglobe and Mattias Nohrborg at Sweden’s B-Reel are on board as co-producers.
Trier will work with his usual team of co-writer Eskil Vogt, director...
Memento Films International (Mfi) has boarded sales on Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s romantic supernatural thriller Thelma about a young woman unaware that she possesses frightening powers.
After his English-language Louder Than Bombs, Trier has returned home for the Norwegian-language thriller, which is due to shoot in Oslo this autumn.
“This is an exciting new departure for Trier,” said producer Thomas Robsahm at Oslo-based Motlys, who is lead producing.
“The remarkably constructed and suspenseful script manages to find an original new take on genre material without losing any of Trier’s unique and personal touch. The film will be Trier’s most visually ambitious project to date, with striking VFX.”
Alexandre Mallet-Guy of Memento Films Production in France, Mikkel Jersin at Denmark’s Snowglobe and Mattias Nohrborg at Sweden’s B-Reel are on board as co-producers.
Trier will work with his usual team of co-writer Eskil Vogt, director...
- 5/12/2016
- ScreenDaily
The distributor has pounced on all North American rights to Bruno Dumont’s Cannes competition selection and upcoming world premiere.
Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini and Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi star in the drama produced by 3B Productions and co-produced by Arte French Cinema, Pictanovo, Twenty Twenty Vision in association with Cnc, Canal +, Arte/Wdr and Region Nord Pas de Calais.
Slack Bay takes place in summer 1910 as a pair of inspectors investigate a case of missing tourists on the Channel coast, near a community of fishermen and oyster farmers where a love story plays out between two notorious families.
The film will mark Dumont’s third to premiere in competition on the Croisette. He has previously won grand prix for Humanité and Flanders.
CEO Richard Lorber negotiated the deal with Tanja Meissner, head of sales at worldwide sales agent Memento Films International.
Kino Lorber has collaborated with Dumont on the release of Humanité and Flanders, as well as...
Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini and Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi star in the drama produced by 3B Productions and co-produced by Arte French Cinema, Pictanovo, Twenty Twenty Vision in association with Cnc, Canal +, Arte/Wdr and Region Nord Pas de Calais.
Slack Bay takes place in summer 1910 as a pair of inspectors investigate a case of missing tourists on the Channel coast, near a community of fishermen and oyster farmers where a love story plays out between two notorious families.
The film will mark Dumont’s third to premiere in competition on the Croisette. He has previously won grand prix for Humanité and Flanders.
CEO Richard Lorber negotiated the deal with Tanja Meissner, head of sales at worldwide sales agent Memento Films International.
Kino Lorber has collaborated with Dumont on the release of Humanité and Flanders, as well as...
- 4/19/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The distributor has pounced on all North American rights to Bruno Dumont’s Cannes competition selection and upcoming world premiere.
Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini and Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi star in the drama produced by 3B Productions and co-produced by Arte French Cinema, Pictanovo, Twenty Twenty Vision in association with Cnc, Canal +, Arte/Wdr and Region Nord Pas de Calais.
Slack Bay takes place in summer 1910 as a pair of inspectors investigate a case of missing tourists on the Channel coast, near a community of fishermen and oyster farmers where a love story plays out between two notorious families.
The film will mark Dumont’s third to premiere in competition on the Croisette. He has previously won grand prix for Humanité and Flanders.
CEO Richard Lorber negotiated the deal with Tanja Meissner, head of sales at worldwide sales agent Memento Films International.
Kino Lorber has collaborated with Dumont on the release of Humanité and Flanders, as well as...
Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini and Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi star in the drama produced by 3B Productions and co-produced by Arte French Cinema, Pictanovo, Twenty Twenty Vision in association with Cnc, Canal +, Arte/Wdr and Region Nord Pas de Calais.
Slack Bay takes place in summer 1910 as a pair of inspectors investigate a case of missing tourists on the Channel coast, near a community of fishermen and oyster farmers where a love story plays out between two notorious families.
The film will mark Dumont’s third to premiere in competition on the Croisette. He has previously won grand prix for Humanité and Flanders.
CEO Richard Lorber negotiated the deal with Tanja Meissner, head of sales at worldwide sales agent Memento Films International.
Kino Lorber has collaborated with Dumont on the release of Humanité and Flanders, as well as...
- 4/19/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: German-speaking Europe and Switzerland deal for upcoming Martin Provost title.
Ascot Elite has pre-bought all rights for German speaking Europe and Switzerland to writer-director Martin Provost’s (Séraphine) upcoming comedy-drama The Midwife (La Sage Femme), set to star Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Frot and Olivier Gourmet.
Ascot Elite inked the deal with Memento Films International (marking the first collaboration between the two companies), whose anticipated script was among the buzz projects at UniFrance’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris last month.
The Midwife tells the story of a passionate midwife named Claire (Frot) who one day, after decades of silence, is unexpectedly called upon by her late father’s ex-lover Beatrice (Deneuve), who informs her of some important news. Claire and Beatrice couldn’t be more different from one another but despite their differences, they slowly but surely grow closer and nothing remains, what it once was.
Fidelite/Curiosa Films (Marguerite) produce the film which is due...
Ascot Elite has pre-bought all rights for German speaking Europe and Switzerland to writer-director Martin Provost’s (Séraphine) upcoming comedy-drama The Midwife (La Sage Femme), set to star Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Frot and Olivier Gourmet.
Ascot Elite inked the deal with Memento Films International (marking the first collaboration between the two companies), whose anticipated script was among the buzz projects at UniFrance’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris last month.
The Midwife tells the story of a passionate midwife named Claire (Frot) who one day, after decades of silence, is unexpectedly called upon by her late father’s ex-lover Beatrice (Deneuve), who informs her of some important news. Claire and Beatrice couldn’t be more different from one another but despite their differences, they slowly but surely grow closer and nothing remains, what it once was.
Fidelite/Curiosa Films (Marguerite) produce the film which is due...
- 2/4/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: German-speaking Europe and Switzerland deal for upcoming Martin Provost title.
Ascot Elite has pre-bought all rights for German speaking Europe and Switzerland to writer-director Martin Provost’s (Séraphine) upcoming comedy-drama The Midwife (La Sage Femme), set to star Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Frot and Olivier Gourmet.
Ascot Elite inked the deal with Memento Films International (marking the first collaboration between the two companies), whose anticipated script was among the buzz projects at UniFrance’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris last month.
The Midwife tells the story of a passionate midwife named Claire (Frot) who one day, after decades of silence, is unexpectedly called upon by her late father’s ex-lover Beatrice (Deneuve), who informs her of some important news. Claire and Beatrice couldn’t be more different from one another but despite their differences, they slowly but surely grow closer and nothing remains, what it once was.
Fidelite/Curiosa Films (Marguerite) produce the film which is due...
Ascot Elite has pre-bought all rights for German speaking Europe and Switzerland to writer-director Martin Provost’s (Séraphine) upcoming comedy-drama The Midwife (La Sage Femme), set to star Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Frot and Olivier Gourmet.
Ascot Elite inked the deal with Memento Films International (marking the first collaboration between the two companies), whose anticipated script was among the buzz projects at UniFrance’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris last month.
The Midwife tells the story of a passionate midwife named Claire (Frot) who one day, after decades of silence, is unexpectedly called upon by her late father’s ex-lover Beatrice (Deneuve), who informs her of some important news. Claire and Beatrice couldn’t be more different from one another but despite their differences, they slowly but surely grow closer and nothing remains, what it once was.
Fidelite/Curiosa Films (Marguerite) produce the film which is due...
- 2/4/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: German-speaking Europe and Switzerland deal for upcoming Martin Provost title.
Ascot Elite has pre-bought all rights for German speaking Europe and Switzerland to writer-director Martin Provost’s (Séraphine) upcoming comedy-drama The Midwife (La Sage Femme), set to star Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Frot and Olivier Gourmet.
Ascot Elite inked the deal with Memento Films International (the first collaboration between the two companies), whose anticipated script was among the buzz projects at UniFrance’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris last month.
The Midwife tells the story of a passionate midwife named Claire (Frot) who one day, after decades of silence, is unexpectedly called upon by her late father’s ex-lover Beatrice (Deneuve), who informs her of some important news. Claire and Beatrice couldn’t be more different from one another but despite their differences, they slowly but surely grow closer and nothing remains, what it once was.
Fidelite/Curiosa Films (Marguerite) produce the film which is due...
Ascot Elite has pre-bought all rights for German speaking Europe and Switzerland to writer-director Martin Provost’s (Séraphine) upcoming comedy-drama The Midwife (La Sage Femme), set to star Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Frot and Olivier Gourmet.
Ascot Elite inked the deal with Memento Films International (the first collaboration between the two companies), whose anticipated script was among the buzz projects at UniFrance’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris last month.
The Midwife tells the story of a passionate midwife named Claire (Frot) who one day, after decades of silence, is unexpectedly called upon by her late father’s ex-lover Beatrice (Deneuve), who informs her of some important news. Claire and Beatrice couldn’t be more different from one another but despite their differences, they slowly but surely grow closer and nothing remains, what it once was.
Fidelite/Curiosa Films (Marguerite) produce the film which is due...
- 2/4/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The Fixer among five projects selected for the CineLink Work in Progress sessions.
The Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 14-22) has unveiled five projects selected for this year’s CineLink Work in Progress sessions - an industry preview of upcoming films from Southeast Europe.
The presentations are open for invited guests who may engage in the projects completion or distribution, and will run Aug 19-20.
Scheduled to attend are representatives from Wild Bunch, The Match Factory, Pyramide, Memento, Fortissimo as well as the Cannes, Berlin, Sundance and Rotterdam film festivals.
The 2015 project line-up consists of three fiction projects, one animation and one documentary, selected from the festival’s documentary workshop Docu Rough Cut Boutique.
They include The Fixer (Fixeur) from Adrian Sitaru, the Romanian filmmaker who won best director at Locarno in 2011 with Best Intentions and the Daad Short Film Award at the 2010 Berlinale with The Cage (Colivia).
The Fixer is inspired by true events and centres on a young...
The Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 14-22) has unveiled five projects selected for this year’s CineLink Work in Progress sessions - an industry preview of upcoming films from Southeast Europe.
The presentations are open for invited guests who may engage in the projects completion or distribution, and will run Aug 19-20.
Scheduled to attend are representatives from Wild Bunch, The Match Factory, Pyramide, Memento, Fortissimo as well as the Cannes, Berlin, Sundance and Rotterdam film festivals.
The 2015 project line-up consists of three fiction projects, one animation and one documentary, selected from the festival’s documentary workshop Docu Rough Cut Boutique.
They include The Fixer (Fixeur) from Adrian Sitaru, the Romanian filmmaker who won best director at Locarno in 2011 with Best Intentions and the Daad Short Film Award at the 2010 Berlinale with The Cage (Colivia).
The Fixer is inspired by true events and centres on a young...
- 8/11/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Fixer among five projects selected for the CineLink Work in Progress sessions.
The Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 14-22) has unveiled five projects selected for this year’s CineLink Work in Progress sessions - an industry preview of upcoming films from Southeast Europe.
The presentations are open for invited guests who may engage in the projects completion or distribution and will run Aug 19-20. Scheduled to attend are representatives from Wild Bunch, The Match Factory, Pyramide, Memento, Fortissimo as well as the Cannes, Berlin, Sundance and Rotterdam film festivals.
The 2015 project line-up consists of three fiction projects, one animation and one documentary, selected from the festival’s documentary workshop Docu Rough Cut Boutique.
They include The Fixer (Fixeur) from Adrian Sitaru, the Romanian filmmaker who won best director at Locarno in 2011 with Best Intentions and the Daad Short Film Award at the 2010 Berlinale with The Cage (Colivia).
The Fixer is inspired by true events and centres on a young...
The Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 14-22) has unveiled five projects selected for this year’s CineLink Work in Progress sessions - an industry preview of upcoming films from Southeast Europe.
The presentations are open for invited guests who may engage in the projects completion or distribution and will run Aug 19-20. Scheduled to attend are representatives from Wild Bunch, The Match Factory, Pyramide, Memento, Fortissimo as well as the Cannes, Berlin, Sundance and Rotterdam film festivals.
The 2015 project line-up consists of three fiction projects, one animation and one documentary, selected from the festival’s documentary workshop Docu Rough Cut Boutique.
They include The Fixer (Fixeur) from Adrian Sitaru, the Romanian filmmaker who won best director at Locarno in 2011 with Best Intentions and the Daad Short Film Award at the 2010 Berlinale with The Cage (Colivia).
The Fixer is inspired by true events and centres on a young...
- 8/11/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Darkness promises to be another terrifying fairy tale from Mexico, "a special mix of Shyamalan’s early films, Dogtooth and the poetic fantasy of Guillermo del Toro,” according to Tanja Meissner, Mfi head of sales for the film.
The Darkness is expected to be released in 2016. It is directed by Daniel Castro Zimbron and co-written with David Pablos.
Synopsis:
The Darkness centers on Argel (Aliocha Sotnikoff) who, along with his two siblings, locked inside a cabin basement in a forest, fearful of a wild beast wandering outside, but when his older brother disappears, Argel sets out to confront the darkest secrets and mysteries that the forest and his father (Brontis Jodorosky) hide.
Sounds pretty amazing. More as it comes, folks!
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The Darkness is expected to be released in 2016. It is directed by Daniel Castro Zimbron and co-written with David Pablos.
Synopsis:
The Darkness centers on Argel (Aliocha Sotnikoff) who, along with his two siblings, locked inside a cabin basement in a forest, fearful of a wild beast wandering outside, but when his older brother disappears, Argel sets out to confront the darkest secrets and mysteries that the forest and his father (Brontis Jodorosky) hide.
Sounds pretty amazing. More as it comes, folks!
[Continued ...]...
- 5/14/2015
- QuietEarth.us
Exclusive: Ensemble cast features Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi; sales to launch at Cannes Marché.
Memento Films International (Mfi) has secured sales rights to Bruno Dumont’s Slack Bay (Ma Loute), co-starring Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
The quirky, dark comedy revolving around an investigation into a series of mysterious disappearances on the beaches of northern France.
The film follows Dumont’s Li’l Quinquin, the four-part TV series that premiered at Cannes in Directors’ Fortnight last year to rave reviews and marked a change in genre for the director of Cannes Grand Prix winners Humanité and Flanders. Some 1.4 million viewers watched the series when it was broadcast in France in September 2014.
“Bruno Dumont’s brilliant and hilarious script is a breath of fresh air,” said Mfi sales chief Tanja Meissner.
“We’ve always loved Bruno’s cinema but Li’l Quinquin truly surprised us, becoming a cult...
Memento Films International (Mfi) has secured sales rights to Bruno Dumont’s Slack Bay (Ma Loute), co-starring Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
The quirky, dark comedy revolving around an investigation into a series of mysterious disappearances on the beaches of northern France.
The film follows Dumont’s Li’l Quinquin, the four-part TV series that premiered at Cannes in Directors’ Fortnight last year to rave reviews and marked a change in genre for the director of Cannes Grand Prix winners Humanité and Flanders. Some 1.4 million viewers watched the series when it was broadcast in France in September 2014.
“Bruno Dumont’s brilliant and hilarious script is a breath of fresh air,” said Mfi sales chief Tanja Meissner.
“We’ve always loved Bruno’s cinema but Li’l Quinquin truly surprised us, becoming a cult...
- 4/7/2015
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Paris-based sales company, which recently handled Still Alice and Winter Sleep, set to launch sales at Cannes.
Memento Films International (Mfi) has secured sales rights to Bruno Dumont’s Slack Bay (Ma Loute), a quirky, dark comedy revolving around an investigation into a series of mysterious disappearances on the beaches of northern France.
The film follows Dumont’s Li’l Quinquin, the four-part TV series that premiered at Cannes in Directors’ Fortnight last year to rave reviews and marked a change in genre for the director of Cannes Grand Prix winners Humanité and Flanders. Some 1.4 million viewers watched the series when it was broadcast in France in September 2014.
“Bruno Dumont’s brilliant and hilarious script is a breath of fresh air,” said Mfi sales chief Tanja Meissner.
“We’ve always loved Bruno’s cinema but Li’l Quinquin truly surprised us, becoming a cult item at once. We’re very excited to work on this project...
Memento Films International (Mfi) has secured sales rights to Bruno Dumont’s Slack Bay (Ma Loute), a quirky, dark comedy revolving around an investigation into a series of mysterious disappearances on the beaches of northern France.
The film follows Dumont’s Li’l Quinquin, the four-part TV series that premiered at Cannes in Directors’ Fortnight last year to rave reviews and marked a change in genre for the director of Cannes Grand Prix winners Humanité and Flanders. Some 1.4 million viewers watched the series when it was broadcast in France in September 2014.
“Bruno Dumont’s brilliant and hilarious script is a breath of fresh air,” said Mfi sales chief Tanja Meissner.
“We’ve always loved Bruno’s cinema but Li’l Quinquin truly surprised us, becoming a cult item at once. We’re very excited to work on this project...
- 4/7/2015
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Deals with Wild Bunch, Memento, Submarine include doc The Seventh Fire, presented by Terrence Malick.
UK distributor Metrodome has finalised deals on five titles out of the European Film Market (Efm) (Feb 5-13) in Berlin, including well-received Berlinale Special documentary The Seventh Fire and Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s drama Evolution from Wild Bunch.
Jack Pettibone Riccobono’s documentary The Seventh Fire, about the unseen world of Native American criminal gangs, is executive produced by Natalie Portman and Chris Eyre, and presented by Terrence Malick.
The deal was negotiated between Metrodome’s TV and new media manager Ella Field and Wide House’s Anais Clanet with Metrodome planning a theatrical release in late 2015.
Interview: Jack Pettibone Riccobono (dir), Shane Slattery-Quintanilla (pro)
From Wild Bunch, Metrodome inked a deal for Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s (Innocence) follow-up fantasy horror Evolution, which stars Max Brebant and Roxane Duran.
Evolution charts the story of a quiet seaside village where boys are forced to undergo...
UK distributor Metrodome has finalised deals on five titles out of the European Film Market (Efm) (Feb 5-13) in Berlin, including well-received Berlinale Special documentary The Seventh Fire and Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s drama Evolution from Wild Bunch.
Jack Pettibone Riccobono’s documentary The Seventh Fire, about the unseen world of Native American criminal gangs, is executive produced by Natalie Portman and Chris Eyre, and presented by Terrence Malick.
The deal was negotiated between Metrodome’s TV and new media manager Ella Field and Wide House’s Anais Clanet with Metrodome planning a theatrical release in late 2015.
Interview: Jack Pettibone Riccobono (dir), Shane Slattery-Quintanilla (pro)
From Wild Bunch, Metrodome inked a deal for Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s (Innocence) follow-up fantasy horror Evolution, which stars Max Brebant and Roxane Duran.
Evolution charts the story of a quiet seaside village where boys are forced to undergo...
- 2/27/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Deals with Wild Bunch, Memento, Submarine include doc The Seventh Fire, presented by Terrence Malick.
UK distributor Metrodome has finalised deals on five titles out of the European Film Market (Efm) (Feb 5-13) in Berlin, including well-received Berlinale Special documentary The Seventh Fire and Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s drama Evolution from Wild Bunch.
Jack Pettibone Riccobono’s documentary The Seventh Fire, about the unseen world of Native American criminal gangs, is executive produced by Natalie Portman and Chris Eyre, and presented by Terrence Malick.
The deal was negotiated between Metrodome’s head of acquisitions Giles Edwards and Wide House’s Anais Clanet with Metrodome planning a theatrical release in late 2015.
Interview: Jack Pettibone Riccobono (dir), Shane Slattery-Quintanilla (pro)
From Wild Bunch, Metrodome inked a deal for Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s (Innocence) follow-up fantasy horror Evolution, which stars Max Brebant and Roxane Duran.
Evolution charts the story of a quiet seaside village where boys are forced to undergo strange...
UK distributor Metrodome has finalised deals on five titles out of the European Film Market (Efm) (Feb 5-13) in Berlin, including well-received Berlinale Special documentary The Seventh Fire and Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s drama Evolution from Wild Bunch.
Jack Pettibone Riccobono’s documentary The Seventh Fire, about the unseen world of Native American criminal gangs, is executive produced by Natalie Portman and Chris Eyre, and presented by Terrence Malick.
The deal was negotiated between Metrodome’s head of acquisitions Giles Edwards and Wide House’s Anais Clanet with Metrodome planning a theatrical release in late 2015.
Interview: Jack Pettibone Riccobono (dir), Shane Slattery-Quintanilla (pro)
From Wild Bunch, Metrodome inked a deal for Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s (Innocence) follow-up fantasy horror Evolution, which stars Max Brebant and Roxane Duran.
Evolution charts the story of a quiet seaside village where boys are forced to undergo strange...
- 2/27/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Paris-based sales agent does good business at Unifrance Rendezvous.
Memento Films International is reporting good sales on French director Xavier Giannoli’s upcoming Marguerite, starring Catherine Frot as an aspiring opera singer with a terrible voice.
The period drama – inspired by the real-life tale of the world’s worst soprano Florence Foster Jenkins – revolves around Marguerite Dumont, a wealthy 1920s chatelaine who believes she has a wonderful voice.
“Distributors were immediately impressed with the footage we showed, Catherine’s performance is outstanding and direction and photography are remarkably beautiful,” said Tanja Meissner, Mfi’s head of international sales and acquisitions
In Europe, the film has sold to Benelux (Imagine), Switzerland and Lichtenstein (Praesens Films), Poland (Kino Swiat), Spain (A Contracorriente), Germany (Concorde), Portugal (Alambique) and Hungary and Romania (Ads Service).
In Asia, it has been picked for Hong Kong and Macau (Edko), Japan (Kino Films), Taiwan (Maison Motion) and Korea (Green Narea).
Other territories include Israel...
Memento Films International is reporting good sales on French director Xavier Giannoli’s upcoming Marguerite, starring Catherine Frot as an aspiring opera singer with a terrible voice.
The period drama – inspired by the real-life tale of the world’s worst soprano Florence Foster Jenkins – revolves around Marguerite Dumont, a wealthy 1920s chatelaine who believes she has a wonderful voice.
“Distributors were immediately impressed with the footage we showed, Catherine’s performance is outstanding and direction and photography are remarkably beautiful,” said Tanja Meissner, Mfi’s head of international sales and acquisitions
In Europe, the film has sold to Benelux (Imagine), Switzerland and Lichtenstein (Praesens Films), Poland (Kino Swiat), Spain (A Contracorriente), Germany (Concorde), Portugal (Alambique) and Hungary and Romania (Ads Service).
In Asia, it has been picked for Hong Kong and Macau (Edko), Japan (Kino Films), Taiwan (Maison Motion) and Korea (Green Narea).
Other territories include Israel...
- 1/26/2015
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Menemsha Films has taken Us rights to Alvaro Brechner’s second feature - Uruguay’s submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
Mr Kaplan, which played at the Busan and London Film Festivals last month, is a dramatic comedy about an elderly Jewish man who believes he has discovered a Nazi war criminal living on the coast of Uruguay.
Menemsha founder and president Neil Friedman brokered the deal with Memento head of international sales and acquisitions Tanja Meissner.
The film is set to be released theatrically in the Us in February 2015.
Further deals have been concluded in the UK (Axiom) Spain (Avalon), Germany (Neue Visonen), Switzerland (Trigon) and Australia (Palace) as well as Greece (Feelgood), Israel (Lev), Brazil (Providence).
The film was released in Uruguay in August and is the country’s submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
Mr Kaplan, which played at the Busan and London Film Festivals last month, is a dramatic comedy about an elderly Jewish man who believes he has discovered a Nazi war criminal living on the coast of Uruguay.
Menemsha founder and president Neil Friedman brokered the deal with Memento head of international sales and acquisitions Tanja Meissner.
The film is set to be released theatrically in the Us in February 2015.
Further deals have been concluded in the UK (Axiom) Spain (Avalon), Germany (Neue Visonen), Switzerland (Trigon) and Australia (Palace) as well as Greece (Feelgood), Israel (Lev), Brazil (Providence).
The film was released in Uruguay in August and is the country’s submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
- 11/24/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Paris-based sales agent to launch new film loosely inspired by “world’s worst soprano”, Florence Foster Jenkins.
Memento Films International will launch French Xavier Giannoli’s upcoming Marguerite, starring Catherine Frot as an aspiring opera singer with a terrible voice, at the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 4-14).
The French-language, period drama - set against the backdrop of 1920s Paris - revolves around Marguerite Dumont, a wealthy chatelaine devoted to music, who loves to sing to her guests.
None of her friends or hangers-on dare tell Marguerite she has a dreadful voice and when a journalist mischievously gives one of her private recitals a rave review she decides to give her first public concert.
Ignoring her husband’s protests, she enlists the help of a former diva and starts training for the big night.
The tale is loosely inspired by American Florence Foster Jenkins, a real opera singer known as the “diva of din” who was...
Memento Films International will launch French Xavier Giannoli’s upcoming Marguerite, starring Catherine Frot as an aspiring opera singer with a terrible voice, at the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 4-14).
The French-language, period drama - set against the backdrop of 1920s Paris - revolves around Marguerite Dumont, a wealthy chatelaine devoted to music, who loves to sing to her guests.
None of her friends or hangers-on dare tell Marguerite she has a dreadful voice and when a journalist mischievously gives one of her private recitals a rave review she decides to give her first public concert.
Ignoring her husband’s protests, she enlists the help of a former diva and starts training for the big night.
The tale is loosely inspired by American Florence Foster Jenkins, a real opera singer known as the “diva of din” who was...
- 8/28/2014
- ScreenDaily
We all know that Adopt Films has acquired all U.S. rights to the 2014 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or Winner, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Winter Sleep.” And we all know that Memento, with three films in the festival (“Cold in July” by Jim Mickle and the Argentinean “Refugiado” by Diego Lerman in the Quinzaine des Realisateurs, and “Winter Sleep” in Competition) is one of the top international sales agents of the best arthouse cinema today…
Our Pre-Cannes Film Festival Report, the Pre-Festival Report which Tom Brueggemann and I publish before the Festivals of Toronto, Sundance and Cannes. (Ask me if you want a free copy and I’ll send it to you.) lists international sales agents’ films in all sections of the Cannes Film Festival by numbers:
Wild Bunch
7
Le Pacte
5
Pyramide
4
3 films: Memento , Bac, Doc & Film, Films Distribution, Gaumont, Other Angle
2 films: Cj, Visit, Elle Driver, eOne, Seville, Urban Distribution Int’l, Les Films du Losange, MK2, Ndm, Sierra/ Affinity, The Match Factory, Westend
1 film: Alpha Violet, Altitude, Cinetic, Filmnation, Dreamworks Animation, Showbox, Films Boutique, Rezo, Myriad, Indie Sales, Snd - Groupe 6, Sunray, The Coproduction Office, Kinology, Pathe, The Festival Agency, Trust Nordisk, Versatile, Premium Panorama/ Annapurna, Kazak, Lotus,
Celluloid Nightmares, Film Factory, Rai Trade, 31 Juin Films, Alfama, Alice Films, Atoms & Void, Aud, Capricci, Morgane, Paraiso, Six Island Productions
Regarding this film, read my Cannes Blog: Cannes 2014 What I Saw #2: Palme d’Or Winner 'Winter Sleep' or just continue reading here:
Here is what I had to say about the film after I saw it in Cannes:
Whether this film will find a home in the U.S., whose audiences and movie theaters are so impatient, is questionable. At the very least, it should screen at New York’s Film Forum and in L.A. at the American Cinematheque or UCLA’s Film Program. Certainly it will play in the top film festivals forever. It is the sort of classic movie cinephiles will love, along the line of Tarkovsky or Angelopoulos. It is the sort of movie one wishes to see, to fully immerse oneself in, an experience only available in a certain type of movie or after reading a deeply immersive novel of Proust, Tolstoy or Marquez.
Once again, Jeff Lipsky and Adopt Films President Tim Grady who negotiated the deal with Memento Films International head of International Sales and Acquisitions, Tanja Meissner, have proven that they have an impeccable eye for quality.
Adopt plans a year-end 2014 U.S. release for “Winter Sleep.”
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s epic and yet personally intimate story is about a wealthy self-absorbed Anatolian hotelier and landowner and his uneasy relationships with those around him. Is he evil? Is the power of evil best resisted by giving in to it?
This is Nuir Bilge Ceylan’s first Palme d’Or but he has received the Grand Prix twice already: once for “Distant” (2002) and again for 2011 for “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia”. He also won for the Director Award in 2008 for “Three Monkeys”. It also won the Fipresci prize in Cannes.
“Winter Sleep” is also the second film by a Turkish director to win the Palm, after Yilmaz Guney and Serif Goren’s “The Way” in1982.
When Ceylan received the award, he noted that 2014 was the 100th anniversary of Turkish cinema. “This is a great surprise for me,” Ceylan said, “I want to dedicate the prize to all the young people of Turkey, including those who lost their lives over the past year.”
“Winter Sleep” is being sold internationally by Memento who will also release it in France. Ama Films acquired Greek rights before Cannes. New Wave acquired U.K. rights in Cannes. Stadtkino-Filmverleih has rights for Austria, Film Point Group has Poland.
Mexico
Mantarraya Producciones
Norway
As Fidalgo Film Distribution
Slovak Republic
Film Europe Media Company
Memento coproduced the film with the director's company, NBC Film, in collaboration with Turkey's Zeynofilm, Germany's Bredok Film Production. Eurimages backed the film with 450,000 € of the total 3.6 million € allocated to 13 film productions announced in March 13. (Parenthetically, seven of the Eurimages backed productions had French participation and five German were co-productions. “One, “Lucy in the Star” by Giuseppe Petitto an Italian, Swiss and Austria co-production received 130,000 €. “All My Children” by Ladislav Kabos from Slovakia and Czech Republic received 30,000 €.
To return to “Winter Sleep”: The opening scene of the stunning and surrealistic landscape of Cappadocia, Anatolia immediately establishes this story as exotic and yet familiar. The actor, Haluk Bilginer, seems to be a familiar type – and in fact, his character is that of a former actor who has turned hotelier and landowner; he is attractive in an actor sort of way and seems always somehow distracted while maintaining a hawk’s eye on the household and the area he appears to rule in an almost feudal style. The household he enters and its inhabitants fall into place like pieces of a puzzle one did not realize was, in fact, a puzzle, with the housekeeper, the sister and the young wife slowly taking on a shape within a larger context in this beautiful and ancient city built in the rocks like caves, with a primitively frightening side, personified by the impecunious family living on the property of the landlord. A modern and affable meeting of concerned citizens of the town establishes his relationship with his wife who lives an uneasy truce until he makes one final effort at destabilizing her hard-won independence of mind.
The 3-½ hours of the film pass without ever loosing the audience interest as the story unfolds about the relationship among the townspeople and the landowning man who, in factm is a tyrant until he is forced to see his own powerlessness.
The philosophic underpinnings, discussed in several intimate conversations, about the best way to resist evil, about wealth and the power it bestows and the resentment it engenders, finds a quiet resolution, which arrives unexpectedly along with the end of the story.
One wonders at the movie’s end if one is about to settle into a long winter sleep or if, in fact, one is emerging from such a sleep in which one dreamt of the previous autumn. And does Winter Sleep solve the problem of evil? In a silent and enigmatic way, it says that the power of money and of tyranny, in the face of resistance by one whose soul is not to be conquered, is null.
In a joint statement Grady and Lipsky said: “ ‘Winter Sleep’ is an epic film: A symphony of words and a sonata of visual splendor. A significant stylistic departure from one of the greatest international filmmakers working today. ‘Winter Sleep’ is a motion picture that will have movie audiences discussing with great passion its provocative discussions about art and artists, class struggle, and love and marriage. A film like this, so rich with ideas, dazzling dialogue, and intelligent characters, is one that is instantly unforgettable. We are proud to partner with Nuri Bilge Ceylan on his achievement of a lifetime. “
Adopt Films just debuted Martin Provost’s follow-up to “Seraphine,” “Violette,” starring Emmanuelle Devos and Sandrine Kiberlain. (Another great film)
Read our coverage here:
'Violette' by Martin Provost
Other recent successes for Adopt Films include the Oscar nominated “Omar” from Hany Abu-Assad, and Yuval Adler’s Venice Film Festival award-winning thriller “Bethlehem.” Its upcoming releases include Vinko Brešan’s Karlovy Vary comedy hit “The Priest’s Children,” Oscar winner Caroline Link’s new drama “Exit Marrakech,” Frederik Steiner’s Zurich,” starring Liv Lisa Fries, and Jacques Doillon’s “Love Battles.”
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Our Pre-Cannes Film Festival Report, the Pre-Festival Report which Tom Brueggemann and I publish before the Festivals of Toronto, Sundance and Cannes. (Ask me if you want a free copy and I’ll send it to you.) lists international sales agents’ films in all sections of the Cannes Film Festival by numbers:
Wild Bunch
7
Le Pacte
5
Pyramide
4
3 films: Memento , Bac, Doc & Film, Films Distribution, Gaumont, Other Angle
2 films: Cj, Visit, Elle Driver, eOne, Seville, Urban Distribution Int’l, Les Films du Losange, MK2, Ndm, Sierra/ Affinity, The Match Factory, Westend
1 film: Alpha Violet, Altitude, Cinetic, Filmnation, Dreamworks Animation, Showbox, Films Boutique, Rezo, Myriad, Indie Sales, Snd - Groupe 6, Sunray, The Coproduction Office, Kinology, Pathe, The Festival Agency, Trust Nordisk, Versatile, Premium Panorama/ Annapurna, Kazak, Lotus,
Celluloid Nightmares, Film Factory, Rai Trade, 31 Juin Films, Alfama, Alice Films, Atoms & Void, Aud, Capricci, Morgane, Paraiso, Six Island Productions
Regarding this film, read my Cannes Blog: Cannes 2014 What I Saw #2: Palme d’Or Winner 'Winter Sleep' or just continue reading here:
Here is what I had to say about the film after I saw it in Cannes:
Whether this film will find a home in the U.S., whose audiences and movie theaters are so impatient, is questionable. At the very least, it should screen at New York’s Film Forum and in L.A. at the American Cinematheque or UCLA’s Film Program. Certainly it will play in the top film festivals forever. It is the sort of classic movie cinephiles will love, along the line of Tarkovsky or Angelopoulos. It is the sort of movie one wishes to see, to fully immerse oneself in, an experience only available in a certain type of movie or after reading a deeply immersive novel of Proust, Tolstoy or Marquez.
Once again, Jeff Lipsky and Adopt Films President Tim Grady who negotiated the deal with Memento Films International head of International Sales and Acquisitions, Tanja Meissner, have proven that they have an impeccable eye for quality.
Adopt plans a year-end 2014 U.S. release for “Winter Sleep.”
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s epic and yet personally intimate story is about a wealthy self-absorbed Anatolian hotelier and landowner and his uneasy relationships with those around him. Is he evil? Is the power of evil best resisted by giving in to it?
This is Nuir Bilge Ceylan’s first Palme d’Or but he has received the Grand Prix twice already: once for “Distant” (2002) and again for 2011 for “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia”. He also won for the Director Award in 2008 for “Three Monkeys”. It also won the Fipresci prize in Cannes.
“Winter Sleep” is also the second film by a Turkish director to win the Palm, after Yilmaz Guney and Serif Goren’s “The Way” in1982.
When Ceylan received the award, he noted that 2014 was the 100th anniversary of Turkish cinema. “This is a great surprise for me,” Ceylan said, “I want to dedicate the prize to all the young people of Turkey, including those who lost their lives over the past year.”
“Winter Sleep” is being sold internationally by Memento who will also release it in France. Ama Films acquired Greek rights before Cannes. New Wave acquired U.K. rights in Cannes. Stadtkino-Filmverleih has rights for Austria, Film Point Group has Poland.
Mexico
Mantarraya Producciones
Norway
As Fidalgo Film Distribution
Slovak Republic
Film Europe Media Company
Memento coproduced the film with the director's company, NBC Film, in collaboration with Turkey's Zeynofilm, Germany's Bredok Film Production. Eurimages backed the film with 450,000 € of the total 3.6 million € allocated to 13 film productions announced in March 13. (Parenthetically, seven of the Eurimages backed productions had French participation and five German were co-productions. “One, “Lucy in the Star” by Giuseppe Petitto an Italian, Swiss and Austria co-production received 130,000 €. “All My Children” by Ladislav Kabos from Slovakia and Czech Republic received 30,000 €.
To return to “Winter Sleep”: The opening scene of the stunning and surrealistic landscape of Cappadocia, Anatolia immediately establishes this story as exotic and yet familiar. The actor, Haluk Bilginer, seems to be a familiar type – and in fact, his character is that of a former actor who has turned hotelier and landowner; he is attractive in an actor sort of way and seems always somehow distracted while maintaining a hawk’s eye on the household and the area he appears to rule in an almost feudal style. The household he enters and its inhabitants fall into place like pieces of a puzzle one did not realize was, in fact, a puzzle, with the housekeeper, the sister and the young wife slowly taking on a shape within a larger context in this beautiful and ancient city built in the rocks like caves, with a primitively frightening side, personified by the impecunious family living on the property of the landlord. A modern and affable meeting of concerned citizens of the town establishes his relationship with his wife who lives an uneasy truce until he makes one final effort at destabilizing her hard-won independence of mind.
The 3-½ hours of the film pass without ever loosing the audience interest as the story unfolds about the relationship among the townspeople and the landowning man who, in factm is a tyrant until he is forced to see his own powerlessness.
The philosophic underpinnings, discussed in several intimate conversations, about the best way to resist evil, about wealth and the power it bestows and the resentment it engenders, finds a quiet resolution, which arrives unexpectedly along with the end of the story.
One wonders at the movie’s end if one is about to settle into a long winter sleep or if, in fact, one is emerging from such a sleep in which one dreamt of the previous autumn. And does Winter Sleep solve the problem of evil? In a silent and enigmatic way, it says that the power of money and of tyranny, in the face of resistance by one whose soul is not to be conquered, is null.
In a joint statement Grady and Lipsky said: “ ‘Winter Sleep’ is an epic film: A symphony of words and a sonata of visual splendor. A significant stylistic departure from one of the greatest international filmmakers working today. ‘Winter Sleep’ is a motion picture that will have movie audiences discussing with great passion its provocative discussions about art and artists, class struggle, and love and marriage. A film like this, so rich with ideas, dazzling dialogue, and intelligent characters, is one that is instantly unforgettable. We are proud to partner with Nuri Bilge Ceylan on his achievement of a lifetime. “
Adopt Films just debuted Martin Provost’s follow-up to “Seraphine,” “Violette,” starring Emmanuelle Devos and Sandrine Kiberlain. (Another great film)
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'Violette' by Martin Provost
Other recent successes for Adopt Films include the Oscar nominated “Omar” from Hany Abu-Assad, and Yuval Adler’s Venice Film Festival award-winning thriller “Bethlehem.” Its upcoming releases include Vinko Brešan’s Karlovy Vary comedy hit “The Priest’s Children,” Oscar winner Caroline Link’s new drama “Exit Marrakech,” Frederik Steiner’s Zurich,” starring Liv Lisa Fries, and Jacques Doillon’s “Love Battles.”
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- 7/1/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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