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Industry veteran Helen Loveridge, who co-founded Fortissimo Film Sales, has announced details of her new, London-based sales outfit, Meridiana Films. This is my first active market, Loveridge commented. I will be starting slowly, looking to build up as we did with Fortissimo. The company will be handling both dramatic features and selected feature docs. In the EFM, Loveridge is screening Megan Doneman s feature documentary Yes Madam, Sir about India s first woman police officer. The film will be released theatrically in India through Shringar Films and in Australia through Odin s Eye. All other rights are available. Also screening on Meridiana s initial EFM slate is Sadik Ahmed s Bangla western, The Last Thakur, which was made under a groundbreaking initiative between UK distributor Artificial Eye and the UK s National Film and Television School. Artificial Eye will be releasing the film theatrically stanley usa in the UK in the early summer. Meridiana is also handling jazz documentary Anita O Day Th stanley cup e Life Of A Jazz Singer by Robbie Cavolina and Ian McCrudden and Alitplano, the latest feature from Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth Khadak which is partly set in Peru. Meanwhile, the company is pre-selling $8 million Owl Song, a Shine-style biopic of Aussie composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks whose career was cut short by a brain tumour. The film is produced by A stanley cup ustralian outfit MusicArtsDance. Neve Campbell and Maria De Medeiros are attached to star.TopicsMarketsSales No comme Svnj Korea s KT G launches film business division
FRANCE - SHARING OUT THE SPOILSOver the past few years, the US studios have increased the number of French films they have acquired for French distribution. Non-local companies can access the distribution portion of the compte de soutien film subsidy, for the release of French films but must channel it back into distributing French films.On the whole, the local industry welcomes Hollywood s presence. Indies are unfazed as the US studios tend to work with the French studios Gaumont, Pathe, UGC and, to a lesser extent, StudioCanal and stanley kubek TFM on bigger films.But the threat of increased competition for titles does loom. There aren t 10,000 good films so the more distributors there are, the fewer films there are, says Fr stanley cup ancois Clerc, head of French distribution for Gaumont.The studios say they are not looking to drive up either budgets or talent costs. I won t participate in that. I wouldn t do it, stanley kubek says Jose Covo, managing director of Twentieth Century Fox France.Olivier Aknin of BackUp Films, which arranges financing for French and foreign projects, believes the studios presence can be a boon for French producers. It s fresh money and any initiative like that is welcome, he says.Producer Herve Truffaut of Les Films Christian Fechner, who has worked with Warner Bros on local hits such as Patrice Leconte s broad comedy Les Bronzes 3, says: No-one is really in competition. The more interlocutors there are, the better it is for French cinema. Warner Bros, he suggests, helps |
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