Eight independent female-led production companies have come together in France to launch Athena, a collective designed to foster parity in the country’s film and audiovisual industries.
The initiative, fuelled by an investment of €6.3m from French insurance companies Maif and Aréas Assurances, aims to help the producers take on more large-scale projects and expand their companies.
The investment, which is repayable, will be divided among the companies based on their individual business plans and agreed upon with the investors.
The producers are: Didar Domehri of Maneki Stories, Carole Lambert of Windy Productions, Caroline Bonmarchand of Avenue B Productions, Albane de Jourdan...
The initiative, fuelled by an investment of €6.3m from French insurance companies Maif and Aréas Assurances, aims to help the producers take on more large-scale projects and expand their companies.
The investment, which is repayable, will be divided among the companies based on their individual business plans and agreed upon with the investors.
The producers are: Didar Domehri of Maneki Stories, Carole Lambert of Windy Productions, Caroline Bonmarchand of Avenue B Productions, Albane de Jourdan...
- 3/13/2024
- ScreenDaily
The company has boarded star-powered French features ‘Take Me Home’ and ’Under The Rainbow’.
Newen Connect, the international sales arm of the Tfi Group’s Newen Studios, has snapped up rights to star-powered French features Take Me Home and Under the Rainbow and will kick off sales in Cannes. Both will be released in France by Ugc Distribution.
Take Me Home is the first feature from directing duo Karine Blanc and Michel Tavares and stars Clovis Cornillac, alongside Eyé Haïdara in a story about a struggling country singer who moves with her children to a mountain village and turns the...
Newen Connect, the international sales arm of the Tfi Group’s Newen Studios, has snapped up rights to star-powered French features Take Me Home and Under the Rainbow and will kick off sales in Cannes. Both will be released in France by Ugc Distribution.
Take Me Home is the first feature from directing duo Karine Blanc and Michel Tavares and stars Clovis Cornillac, alongside Eyé Haïdara in a story about a struggling country singer who moves with her children to a mountain village and turns the...
- 5/11/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Brussels-based company Best Friend Forever has acquired Kamir Aïnouz’s promising feature debut “Honey Cigar” which was developed with the support of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and is co-produced by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, the Palme d’Or-winning directors/producers.
Set in Paris in 1993, the film follows Selma, 17, who lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family. When she meets Julien in college, she realizes for the first time the impact of patriarchal rules on her intimacy. While Selma discovers the strength of her own desire, fundamentalism takes over her country and her family starts to crumble.
“Honey Cigar” is being produced by French veteran producer Christine Rouxel (“Houba! On the Trail of the Marsupilami”) and Marie-Castille Mention Schaar (“Heaven Will Wait”). The movie is being co-produced by the Dardennes and Malek Ali-Yahia, as well as French star Dany Boon.
Best Friend Forever will unveil the exclusive first footage of...
Set in Paris in 1993, the film follows Selma, 17, who lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family. When she meets Julien in college, she realizes for the first time the impact of patriarchal rules on her intimacy. While Selma discovers the strength of her own desire, fundamentalism takes over her country and her family starts to crumble.
“Honey Cigar” is being produced by French veteran producer Christine Rouxel (“Houba! On the Trail of the Marsupilami”) and Marie-Castille Mention Schaar (“Heaven Will Wait”). The movie is being co-produced by the Dardennes and Malek Ali-Yahia, as well as French star Dany Boon.
Best Friend Forever will unveil the exclusive first footage of...
- 2/18/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
French director David Oelhoffen, whose latest film, “Close Enemies,” is competing at the Venice Film Festival, is preparing two new politically minded, internationally driven films: “The Fourth Wall” (“Le quatrieme mur”) and “Les derniers hommes.”
“Les derniers hommes” is being developped by Galatée Films, the company co-founded by French actor-turned-producer Jacques Perrin, whose credits include “The Chorists.” The project is based on Alain Gandy’s autobiographical novel, “Légion étrangère Cavalerie,” which chronicles the hellish journey of foreign soldiers who fought on behalf of the French in March 1945 as they struggled to make their way out of the jungle after being defeated by the Japanese army.
Oelhoffen said the project was brought to him by Perrin, who bought rights to Gandy’s novel and is passionate about the subject, having starred in Pierre Schoendoerffer’s 1965 film “The 317th Platoon,” which is set in Vietnam in 1954.
“It will be a survival drama...
“Les derniers hommes” is being developped by Galatée Films, the company co-founded by French actor-turned-producer Jacques Perrin, whose credits include “The Chorists.” The project is based on Alain Gandy’s autobiographical novel, “Légion étrangère Cavalerie,” which chronicles the hellish journey of foreign soldiers who fought on behalf of the French in March 1945 as they struggled to make their way out of the jungle after being defeated by the Japanese army.
Oelhoffen said the project was brought to him by Perrin, who bought rights to Gandy’s novel and is passionate about the subject, having starred in Pierre Schoendoerffer’s 1965 film “The 317th Platoon,” which is set in Vietnam in 1954.
“It will be a survival drama...
- 8/31/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
I love "Babies!" Why? Check out my review and my picture as a baby below. Have Fun And Have A Great Mother's Day Weekend Everyone!
Here's more on info on "Babies" from Yahoo:
Everybody loves... Babies. This visually stunning new movie simultaneously follows four babies around the world - from first breath to first steps. From Mongolia to Namibia to San Francisco to Tokyo, Babies joyfully captures on film the earliest stages of the journey of humanity that are at once unique and universal to us all.
Genres:Art/Foreign, Documentary and Kids/Family
Running Time:1 hr. 19 min.
Release Date:May 7th, 2010 (limited)
MPAA Rating:pg for cultural and maternal nudity throughout.
Distributors: Focus Features
Cast and Credits
Directed by: Thomas Balmès
Produced by: Alain Chabat, Amandine Billot, Christine Rouxel
And Here's My Baby Picture! :happy...
Here's more on info on "Babies" from Yahoo:
Everybody loves... Babies. This visually stunning new movie simultaneously follows four babies around the world - from first breath to first steps. From Mongolia to Namibia to San Francisco to Tokyo, Babies joyfully captures on film the earliest stages of the journey of humanity that are at once unique and universal to us all.
Genres:Art/Foreign, Documentary and Kids/Family
Running Time:1 hr. 19 min.
Release Date:May 7th, 2010 (limited)
MPAA Rating:pg for cultural and maternal nudity throughout.
Distributors: Focus Features
Cast and Credits
Directed by: Thomas Balmès
Produced by: Alain Chabat, Amandine Billot, Christine Rouxel
And Here's My Baby Picture! :happy...
- 5/8/2010
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Release Date: May 7 Director: Thomas Balmès Producers: Alain Chabat, Amandine Billot, Christine Rouxel Starring: Ponijao, Bayar, Mari, Hattie Studio/Run Time: Focus Features, 79 min. The kids are alright If you’re averse to cute things—raindrops, roses, whiskers on kittens etc.—then Babies probably isn’t for you. Directed by Thomas Balmès, this beautifully shot film follows four infants (one each in Namibia, Mongolia, Tokyo and San Francisco) from birth to their first steps....
- 5/6/2010
- Pastemagazine.com
See wonderful images from Focus Features' documentary "Babies" (a.k.a. "Baby(ies)") The film opens in limited areas on May 7th. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Thomas Balmes, from an original idea by producer Alain Chabat. Amandine Billot, Alain Chabat and Christine Rouxel produce. Rated PG for cultural and maternal nudity throughout. The adventure of a lifetime begins... Babies simultaneously follows four babies around the world - from birth to first steps. The children are, respectively, in order of on-screen introduction: Ponijao, who lives with her family near Opuwo, Namibia; Bayarjargal, who resides with his family in Mongolia, near Bayanchandmani; Mari, who lives with her family in Tokyo, Japan; and Hattie, who resides with her family in the United States, in San Francisco...
- 4/12/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Check out the theatrical trailer for the "Babies" documentary. Focus Features sends out the film on April 16th, 2010. Thomas Balmes directs and Amandine Billot, Alain Chabat and Christine Rouxel produce. A visually stunning and joyful new film that simultaneously chronicles the lives of four of the world’s newest human inhabitants - in Mongolia, Namibia, San Francisco, and Tokyo, respectively -- from first breath to first steps, on a journey at once universal and amazingly original. Check out the film's Facebook page as well.
- 11/30/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Focus Features, the little engine that could, has passed $1 billion mark in domestic box-office!
Focus Features CEO James Schamus said, .Next year.s Focus slate follows one of the company.s best years ever . our eighth profitable year in a row since our inception, and the year in which we passed the $1 billion mark in cumulative domestic box office alone.
.Our 2010 lineup is as audacious as any in our history, ranging from American indies like Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck.s It.s Kind of a Funny Story to big international productions like Anton Corbijn.s The American..
I love Focus Features and its stance on quality filmmaking! This year, the studio delighted us with "Away We Go," "Coraline," "Taking Woodstock," "9," "A Serious Man," and "Pirate Radio."
Next year, the studio is set to delight us more! Check out their upcoming releases:
Opening in select cities on Friday, March 12th will be "Greenberg,...
Focus Features CEO James Schamus said, .Next year.s Focus slate follows one of the company.s best years ever . our eighth profitable year in a row since our inception, and the year in which we passed the $1 billion mark in cumulative domestic box office alone.
.Our 2010 lineup is as audacious as any in our history, ranging from American indies like Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck.s It.s Kind of a Funny Story to big international productions like Anton Corbijn.s The American..
I love Focus Features and its stance on quality filmmaking! This year, the studio delighted us with "Away We Go," "Coraline," "Taking Woodstock," "9," "A Serious Man," and "Pirate Radio."
Next year, the studio is set to delight us more! Check out their upcoming releases:
Opening in select cities on Friday, March 12th will be "Greenberg,...
- 11/13/2009
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
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