French sales companies are getting behind Mia’s film and TV market in Rome this week.
French sales companies will be out in force at Rome’s Mia film and TV market (October 13-17) as the global film and TV market circuit continues to shift due to the pandemic Covid-19.
French sellers have been busy networking at the Venice and San Sebastian film festivals this autumn, but Mia represents the first physical market since Cannes in July for most after only a handful of European professionals made the trip to Toronto in September.
Mia will also be the last opportunity...
French sales companies will be out in force at Rome’s Mia film and TV market (October 13-17) as the global film and TV market circuit continues to shift due to the pandemic Covid-19.
French sellers have been busy networking at the Venice and San Sebastian film festivals this autumn, but Mia represents the first physical market since Cannes in July for most after only a handful of European professionals made the trip to Toronto in September.
Mia will also be the last opportunity...
- 10/12/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Sarah Marx: 'I met Sandor Funtek at the very start of the writing process because to put words into Ulysses mouth, I needed to work with the actor. There was great work between us' Photo: Sarah Marx Sarah Marx fiction feature debut L'Enkas, which tells the story of Ulysse (Sandor Funtek), a young man freshly out of prison who is desperate to make some cash in order to look after his depressed mother (Sandrine Bonnaire). Co-written by Hamé Bourokba and Ekoué Labitey it explores crime, not as a fun adrenaline rush, but as an act of desperation, fuelled by melancholy and necessity. The film had its world premiere in the Horizons section of Venice Film Festival , and I caught up with Marx to chat about it.
I'm interested in the way you handle the plot that on paper looks very familiar plot about a person who comes out of...
I'm interested in the way you handle the plot that on paper looks very familiar plot about a person who comes out of...
- 9/13/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
While they’ve been featured in a handful of films that have made their mark state-side Mélanie Laurent and Reda Kateb still find more than enough time to lead productions in their own country. The first English-subtitled trailer for Paris Prestige (Les deniers Parisiens) has arrived for their latest, the feature-length debut of writing-directing duo Hamé Bourokba and Ekoué Labitey.
The trailer demonstrates a cinéma vérité lean that the duo have seemed to utilize, as they follow Nasser (Reda Kateb), a man donned in a leather coat navigating the streets of France. Through restaurants, night clubs, and potentially-shady dealings, Nasser looks to make a name for himself against the bidding of a man who holds more power, his brother Arezki (Silmane Dazi). Nasser has just been released from prison, Arezki owns a bar. Nasser says it belongs to them both, and therein lies the rub. As Nasser starts a night club of his own,...
The trailer demonstrates a cinéma vérité lean that the duo have seemed to utilize, as they follow Nasser (Reda Kateb), a man donned in a leather coat navigating the streets of France. Through restaurants, night clubs, and potentially-shady dealings, Nasser looks to make a name for himself against the bidding of a man who holds more power, his brother Arezki (Silmane Dazi). Nasser has just been released from prison, Arezki owns a bar. Nasser says it belongs to them both, and therein lies the rub. As Nasser starts a night club of his own,...
- 1/14/2017
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
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