Grappling with free-falling theatrical admissions and misplaced blame by exhibitors on so-called “auteur” movies, the leading lights of the French film industry sounded the alarm about the state of the country’s cinema sector during a dramatic and emotional conference.
The jam-packed event on Thursday, called Appel aux Etats Generaux (Call for General Assemblies), was organized by some of France’s most established producers including Saïd Ben Saïd, Judith Lou Levy and Philippe Carcassone, who work frequently with directors Paul Verhoeven, Mati Diop and Florian Zeller, respectively.
The conference was held at the Institut du Monde Arabe, a cultural venue headed by Jack Lang, who served as minister of culture throughout the 1980s. Nearly 800 people attended the event, including members of the independent distributors guild (Dire) and the directors guild Srf, the governing body of Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight.
Filmmakers, producers, distributors, arthouse exhibitors and crew members took the stage to...
The jam-packed event on Thursday, called Appel aux Etats Generaux (Call for General Assemblies), was organized by some of France’s most established producers including Saïd Ben Saïd, Judith Lou Levy and Philippe Carcassone, who work frequently with directors Paul Verhoeven, Mati Diop and Florian Zeller, respectively.
The conference was held at the Institut du Monde Arabe, a cultural venue headed by Jack Lang, who served as minister of culture throughout the 1980s. Nearly 800 people attended the event, including members of the independent distributors guild (Dire) and the directors guild Srf, the governing body of Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight.
Filmmakers, producers, distributors, arthouse exhibitors and crew members took the stage to...
- 10/7/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Paradigm brokered deal on behalf of producers.
Ad Vitam has acquired French rights to Chinonye Chukwu’s Sundance grand jury prize-winning drama Clemency in another key deal struck by Paradigm.
Alfre Woodard stars as a prison warden who, weary after years of carrying out death row executions, bonds with a man she is sanctioned to kill.
Aldis Hodge, Richard Schiff, and Wendell Pierce round out the key cast on the drama produced by Ace Pictures Entertainment, Bronwyn Cornelius Productions, and Julian Cautherley.
“We saw Clemency in Sundance,” said Ad Vitam partner and head of acquisitions Gregory Gajos. “As soon as...
Ad Vitam has acquired French rights to Chinonye Chukwu’s Sundance grand jury prize-winning drama Clemency in another key deal struck by Paradigm.
Alfre Woodard stars as a prison warden who, weary after years of carrying out death row executions, bonds with a man she is sanctioned to kill.
Aldis Hodge, Richard Schiff, and Wendell Pierce round out the key cast on the drama produced by Ace Pictures Entertainment, Bronwyn Cornelius Productions, and Julian Cautherley.
“We saw Clemency in Sundance,” said Ad Vitam partner and head of acquisitions Gregory Gajos. “As soon as...
- 3/1/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
In a move which will be noted by art film distributors around the world, France’s Ad Vitam, a major force in Cannes Festival pre-buys and purchases, has acquired French rights to “The Dead and the Others,” this year’s Cannes Un Certain Regard special jury prize winner.
“The Dead and the Others” is sold by Paris-based Luxbox. Directed by Palme d’Or short film winner João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora, it turns on 15-year-old Ihjãc, who is instructed by his dead father’s voice to celebrate the funerary feast allowing his father’s spirit to depart to the village of the dead and Ihjãc to get on with life. Reluctant to say goodbye to his father, also a first step to becoming a shaman, Ihjãc falls ill, and flees to the nearest town, to be cured by white people, They tell him, however, that he can only stay...
“The Dead and the Others” is sold by Paris-based Luxbox. Directed by Palme d’Or short film winner João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora, it turns on 15-year-old Ihjãc, who is instructed by his dead father’s voice to celebrate the funerary feast allowing his father’s spirit to depart to the village of the dead and Ihjãc to get on with life. Reluctant to say goodbye to his father, also a first step to becoming a shaman, Ihjãc falls ill, and flees to the nearest town, to be cured by white people, They tell him, however, that he can only stay...
- 6/1/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: French distribution company picks up world rights, excluding North America.
French distribution company Ad Vitam has snapped up world rights excluding North America on the film Difret by Ethiopian filmmaker Zeresenay Berhane Mehari.
Produced by Mehret Mandefro and executive produced by Angelina Jolie, the film won the Audience Award in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition in Sundance and will premiere in the Panorama section of the Berlinale.
World sales will be handled by Films Distribution’s Berlin-based sister company Films Boutique.
Ad Vitam’s partner and head of acquisition, Gregory Gajos negotiated the deal with UTA’s independent Film Group.
“We totally fell in love with Difret. The film is a very touching pic and reaches to speak about the important topic of women’s rights in Africa but always staying on the moving side focusing on its characters and their feelings,” Gregory Gajos told ScreenDaily.
Jean-Christophe Simon, Films Boutique’s CEO, added: “Reactions...
French distribution company Ad Vitam has snapped up world rights excluding North America on the film Difret by Ethiopian filmmaker Zeresenay Berhane Mehari.
Produced by Mehret Mandefro and executive produced by Angelina Jolie, the film won the Audience Award in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition in Sundance and will premiere in the Panorama section of the Berlinale.
World sales will be handled by Films Distribution’s Berlin-based sister company Films Boutique.
Ad Vitam’s partner and head of acquisition, Gregory Gajos negotiated the deal with UTA’s independent Film Group.
“We totally fell in love with Difret. The film is a very touching pic and reaches to speak about the important topic of women’s rights in Africa but always staying on the moving side focusing on its characters and their feelings,” Gregory Gajos told ScreenDaily.
Jean-Christophe Simon, Films Boutique’s CEO, added: “Reactions...
- 2/7/2014
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: French distribution company picks up world rights, excluding North America.
French distribution company Ad Vitam has snapped up world rights excluding North America on the film Difret by Ethiopian filmmaker Zeresenay Berhane Mehari.
Produced by Mehret Mandefro and executive produced by Angelina Jolie, the film won the Audience Award in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition in Sundance and will premiere in the Panorama section of the Berlinale.
World sales will be handled by Films Distribution’s Berlin-based sister company Films Boutique.
Ad Vitam’s partner and head of acquisition, Gregory Gajos negotiated the deal with UTA’s independent Film Group.
“We totally fell in love with Difret. The film is a very touching pic and reaches to speak about the important topic of women’s rights in Africa but always staying on the moving side focusing on its characters and their feelings,” Gregory Gajos told ScreenDaily.
Jean-Christophe Simon, Films Boutique’s CEO, added: “Reactions...
French distribution company Ad Vitam has snapped up world rights excluding North America on the film Difret by Ethiopian filmmaker Zeresenay Berhane Mehari.
Produced by Mehret Mandefro and executive produced by Angelina Jolie, the film won the Audience Award in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition in Sundance and will premiere in the Panorama section of the Berlinale.
World sales will be handled by Films Distribution’s Berlin-based sister company Films Boutique.
Ad Vitam’s partner and head of acquisition, Gregory Gajos negotiated the deal with UTA’s independent Film Group.
“We totally fell in love with Difret. The film is a very touching pic and reaches to speak about the important topic of women’s rights in Africa but always staying on the moving side focusing on its characters and their feelings,” Gregory Gajos told ScreenDaily.
Jean-Christophe Simon, Films Boutique’s CEO, added: “Reactions...
- 2/7/2014
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Breaking: The Match Factory is selling foreign at Toronto for the Kelly Reichardt-directed Night Moves, which stars Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard as three radical environmentalists who come together to execute the most spectacular direct action event of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam — the very source and symbol of the energy-sucking, resource-devouring industrial culture they despise. Shooting begins next month and UTA Independent Film Group is handling domestic sales on the co-production of Maybach Film Productions, Rt Features and filmscience. Match Factory today closed a French rights deal with Paris-based Ad Vitam Distribution, with Ad Vitam’s Alexandra Henochsberg and Gregory Gajos making the deal with Match Factory’s Brigitte Suarez and Michael Weber. Reichardt, who last directed Meek’s Cutoff, wrote the script with Jon Raymond. Neil Kopp and Anish Savjani are producing with Chris Maybach, Saemi Kim and Rodrigo Teixeira. Saerom Kim,...
- 9/9/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Leading French distribution outfit Ad Vitam has acquired French rights to Ashim Ahluwalia’s Miss Lovely, Fortissimo Films announced.
Ashim Ahluwalia’s highly anticipated feature debut will premiere in Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival on May 24.
The catalog of Ad Vitam includes films like Take Shelter by Jeff Nichols, Farewell My Queen by Benoit Jacquot, Miss Bala by Gerardo Naranjo and Bull Head by Michael R. Roskam.
The deal was negotiated by Fortissimo’s Evp of sales and acquisitions Nicole Mackey with Alexandra Henochsberg and Gregory Gajos of Ad Vitam.
Nicole Mackey said “We are happy to make Ad Vitam our French partner in this extraordinarily vivid tale!”
Ad Vitam’s Gregory Gajos added: “We are delighted to be working with Fortissimo again and to have French rights to Miss Lovely which exemplifies the new wave Indian cinema.”
Set in the lower depths of Bombay’s “C” grade film industry,...
Ashim Ahluwalia’s highly anticipated feature debut will premiere in Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival on May 24.
The catalog of Ad Vitam includes films like Take Shelter by Jeff Nichols, Farewell My Queen by Benoit Jacquot, Miss Bala by Gerardo Naranjo and Bull Head by Michael R. Roskam.
The deal was negotiated by Fortissimo’s Evp of sales and acquisitions Nicole Mackey with Alexandra Henochsberg and Gregory Gajos of Ad Vitam.
Nicole Mackey said “We are happy to make Ad Vitam our French partner in this extraordinarily vivid tale!”
Ad Vitam’s Gregory Gajos added: “We are delighted to be working with Fortissimo again and to have French rights to Miss Lovely which exemplifies the new wave Indian cinema.”
Set in the lower depths of Bombay’s “C” grade film industry,...
- 5/23/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Indian director Ashim Ahluwalia's movie debut Miss Lovely, set to take its world premiere in Un Certain Regard, has inked a French distribution deal with Ad Vitam. The French distribution label, whose release slate this year includes Take Shelter, directed by Jeff Nichols and Benoit Jacquot's Farewell My Queen, snapped up Ahluwalia's film from Fortissimo Film Sales. Photos: Cannes Day 5: 'Amour' Premiere, 'The Sapphires' Photocall Ad Vitam's Gregory Gajos described Ahluwalia's film as repping "the new wave Indian cinema." Ahluwalia, who previously directed a documentary John and Jane, produced Miss Lovely under the Future East banner along with
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- 5/22/2012
- by Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Strand Releasing has acquired U.S. rights to Pablo Trapero's "Carancho," which recently screened in A Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival. The thriller, starring Ricardo Darin and Martina Gusman, will be released in early 2011.
The film focuses on an ambulance-chasing lawyer and an ER doctor who form an unlikely and symbiotic relationship that leads them into a dark world of corruption and murder.
Strand distributed Trapero’s previous film "Lion’s Den."
With a screenplay by Alejandro Fadel, Martin Mauregui, Santiago Mitre and Trapero, "Carancho" is a Matanza Cine production in association with Finecut, Patagonik, Ad Vitam and L90 Producciones. It was produced by Trapero with Martina Gusman serving as executive producer. Youngjoo Suh, Juan Pablo Galli, Alejandro Cacetta, Juan Vera, Alexandra Henochsberg, Gregory Gajos, Arthur Hallereau, Felipe Braun serve as co-producers.
The deal was negotiated between Fine Cut's Suh and Strand's Jon Gerrans.
The film focuses on an ambulance-chasing lawyer and an ER doctor who form an unlikely and symbiotic relationship that leads them into a dark world of corruption and murder.
Strand distributed Trapero’s previous film "Lion’s Den."
With a screenplay by Alejandro Fadel, Martin Mauregui, Santiago Mitre and Trapero, "Carancho" is a Matanza Cine production in association with Finecut, Patagonik, Ad Vitam and L90 Producciones. It was produced by Trapero with Martina Gusman serving as executive producer. Youngjoo Suh, Juan Pablo Galli, Alejandro Cacetta, Juan Vera, Alexandra Henochsberg, Gregory Gajos, Arthur Hallereau, Felipe Braun serve as co-producers.
The deal was negotiated between Fine Cut's Suh and Strand's Jon Gerrans.
- 6/1/2010
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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