We are so happy to hear that our dear friend for many years Nadine de Barros has joined industry vets film financier Daniel Wagner and producer Robert Ogden Barnum to form a new international sales company Fortitude International which de Barros will roll out in Berlin the next weeks.

In the Berlin Efm Market Fortitude International to sell Foreign Rights for and will introduce this new project to buyers at the upcoming Berlin European Film Market.

The project will see Kilburn Media financing The End Of The Tour, starring Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenbeg, Directed By James Ponsoldt.

Mark Manuel and Ted O’Neal’s Kilburn Media has come on board as full financiers of the fact-based drama “The End of the Tour,” starring Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg and directed by James Ponsoldt. The announcement was made jointly by Kilburn and by Anonymous Content. David Kanter and Matt DeRoss will produce for Anonymous Content along with James Dahl of Modern Man Films. Manuel and O’Neal will produce for Kilburn.

The film follows author David Foster Wallace (Segel), author of famous best selling novel Infinite Jest, on the 1996 supporting book tour as Wallace is accompanied David Lipsky (Eisenberg), on assignment from Rolling Stone Magazine. Along the way, both a friendship and jealousy and competition emerge between the two writers as they discuss women, culture, depression and the pros and cons of fame. Though Wallace committed suicide in 2008, the movie captures both men at a time of great promise.

James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now) will direct from a script by playwright Donald Margulies, who adapted Lipsky’s book Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace. Ponsoldt himself used to work at Rolling Stone while he was in college.

Anonymous Content’s Paul Green will executive produce the film, which is scheduled to start production shortly.

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About Nadine de Barros and her new venture international sales agent Fortitude International.

Veteran foreign sales agent Nadine de Barros, financier/producer Daniel Wagner (Kill The Trumpet Player, Young Ones) and producer Robert Ogden Barnum (All Is Lost, Lawless) have partnered to launch Fortitude International, a new sales and financing outfit based in Los Angeles. De Barros will be meeting with film buyers at the upcoming European Film Market at the Berlinale.

De Barros most recently served as Head of Sales at Aldamisa International, and was previously Vice President of Sales and Acquisitions at Voltage Pictures. She has handled sales on such films as Sin City 2, Chef and Machete Kills as well as The Hurt Locker, Don Jon and Killer Joe.

In addition to sales, Fortitude will also fully finance projects, and will be actively looking to produce strong, commercial and director driven material immediately. The company will finance and sell 10-15 movies a year and has at its disposal equity, bridge and senior debt capabilities.

Fortitude will also focus on sourcing and financing television series and miniseries.

De Barros has always had a foot in television and previously sold TNT’s Leverage, The Triangle on SyFy, True Justice on Reelz and most recently SAF3.

“I am thrilled to be working with Daniel and Rob as we build Fortitude into a full-service international sales and financing company. I’m also very excited about our forthcoming slate of projects, both film and television series and miniseries,” said de Barros.

“Through Fortitude International, we have created a company that will provide important services and support not just for our personal slate of films, but to our present and future producing partners as well. I'm excited to partner with such talented and dedicated individuals on this new venture,” said Wagner.

“As financiers, Nadine brings us the international market knowledge that is so imperative to us when evaluating projects. Fortitude will be a haven for filmmakers and artists to make creatively and commercially successful films,” said Barnum.

Wagner’s La-based production and finance company BiFrost Pictures launched last year at Cannes and has recently greenlit high profile projects including the Miles Davis biography Kill The Trumpet Player, which will star and be directed by Don Cheadle. Other projects include Jake Paltrow’s Sundance entry Young Ones with Michael Shannon and Nicholas Hoult, Paul Bettany’s directorial debut Shelter starring Jennifer Connelly and Anthony Mackie, the romantic comedy We’LL Never Have Paris from director and star Simon Helberg, and The World Made Straight which stars Noah Wiley, Haley Joel Osment and Minka Kelly.

Robert Ogden Barnum, also a producer on Kill the Trumpet Player and Shelter, is a co-founder of the financing firm e2b Capital with Cassian Elwes, and most recently executive produced All Is Lost starring Robert Redford and directed by Jc Chandor. Other recent projects include Lawless, starring Shia Labeouf and Tom Hardy and Chandor’s first film Margin Call, starring Kevin Spacey. Barnum has also served as an executive, overseeing operations and strategy of both Benaroya Pictures and Annapurna Pictures, both major independent film financiers.

Nadine de Barros - detailed bio

A highly respected veteran in the sales of film and TV properties to the international market, Nadine represents projects of various budgets and genres making sales to distributors worldwide. She has represented over 350 films and TV series in the last 12 years. Until September of 2013, she was the President of Aldamisa International. In the last year, she has been responsible for the sales of “Machete Kills” starring Lady Gaga and Mel Gibson, “Sin City 2” a 75 million dollar budget film directed by Robert Rodriguez and starring Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon Levitt and an ensemble cast, and “Chef” starring Jon Favreau, Robert Downey Junior and Scarlett Johansson. She is also overseeing production, financing and sales on “Captive” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Rescue 3” a 22 episode series currently in production, and Barbra’s Streisand’s directorial return, “The Margaret Bourke-White Story”. For 7 years prior to Aldamisa, Nadine was the President of Sales and Acquisitions of Voltage Pictures, a sales agency which she launched with global sales expert Nicolas Chartier. At Voltage she worked on Best Picture Academy Award Winner “The Hurt Locker”, “Killer Joe” directed by William Friedkin and starring Matthew McConaughey, “Company you Keep” directed and starring Robert Redford, and “Leverage” a 77 episode TNT series.

She also worked at Summit Entertainment when it was a growing foreign sales company and in Paris at Opening Distribution.

Nadine is a French and American Citizen who speaks both languages fluently. She graduated from the American University in Paris where she began her film career.