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TV France International, the French TV promotion organisation, is launching the first edition of Rendez-Vous Docs, a series of online pitching dedicated to documentaries.
Aimed at 124 buyers across 38 countries, the sessions will highlight 18 projects and each program will be pitched by producers/and or sales agents and filmmakers at a Paris venue called Le Shack. The event will be filmed live and streamed on the platform Lerendezvousdocs.tv. As many as 24 sales agents will take part in the event on March 18. Buyers accredited for Rendez-Vous Docs will have access to screening room comprising 180 programs.
The presentation will be followed by live Q&a sessions during which distributors, producers will discuss their program with clips and trailers. The lineup of projects include Louis Wallecan’s Tribeca title “Lil’ Buck, Real Swan,” (pictured) a docu about a young street dancer in Memphis, which is represented in international markets by Federation Entertainment and...
Aimed at 124 buyers across 38 countries, the sessions will highlight 18 projects and each program will be pitched by producers/and or sales agents and filmmakers at a Paris venue called Le Shack. The event will be filmed live and streamed on the platform Lerendezvousdocs.tv. As many as 24 sales agents will take part in the event on March 18. Buyers accredited for Rendez-Vous Docs will have access to screening room comprising 180 programs.
The presentation will be followed by live Q&a sessions during which distributors, producers will discuss their program with clips and trailers. The lineup of projects include Louis Wallecan’s Tribeca title “Lil’ Buck, Real Swan,” (pictured) a docu about a young street dancer in Memphis, which is represented in international markets by Federation Entertainment and...
- 3/8/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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Federation Entertainment, Pascal Breton and Lionel Uzan’s independent production and distribution group, is ramping up its premium documentary output with a slate of new acquisitions, including “The Vatican” and “The Sect.”
“The Vatican” is a six-part investigative documentary series exploring the pinnacle of Catholicism, and how incessant scandals and an ever changing society have weakened its foundations. “The Vatican” is directed by Kat Steppe, co-written by Rik Torfs and Jo Badisco, and produced by Kato Maes and Kristoffel Mertens at Belgian outfit Paneka for the broadcaster Vrt. Now filming, the series has already been pre-sold to French SVOD service Salto.
“The Sect,” meanwhile, delivers an in-depth look into the Order of the Solar Temple. The five-part docuseries sheds light on what led 74 members of the cult to commit mass suicide across France, Switzerland and Canada, between 1994 and 1997. “The Sect” is produced by Matthieu Belghiti and Jean-Xavier De Lestrade, the...
“The Vatican” is a six-part investigative documentary series exploring the pinnacle of Catholicism, and how incessant scandals and an ever changing society have weakened its foundations. “The Vatican” is directed by Kat Steppe, co-written by Rik Torfs and Jo Badisco, and produced by Kato Maes and Kristoffel Mertens at Belgian outfit Paneka for the broadcaster Vrt. Now filming, the series has already been pre-sold to French SVOD service Salto.
“The Sect,” meanwhile, delivers an in-depth look into the Order of the Solar Temple. The five-part docuseries sheds light on what led 74 members of the cult to commit mass suicide across France, Switzerland and Canada, between 1994 and 1997. “The Sect” is produced by Matthieu Belghiti and Jean-Xavier De Lestrade, the...
- 2/9/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Pictured: Louise Detlefsen and Louise Kjeldsen’s “Fat Front,” about a rebellious movement started by plus-sized women in Scandinavia, world premieres at Idfa.
Danish documentarian Jørgen Leth, whose 1967 short “The Perfect Human” inspired fellow countryman Lars Von Trier as a film student, will be awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at Idfa this year. The prolific 82-year-old, based in Haiti, is just one of a number of non-fiction heavyweights to be celebrated at the Amsterdam festival, which will also offer posthumous tributes to Agnes Varda and D.A. Pennebaker, who passed away this year.
Under festival director Orwa Nyrabia, in his second year, Idfa continues to focus on directors from emerging territories as well as films dealing with pressing contemporary issues. In the Frontlight section, Claudia Sparrow’s “Maxima” deals with a Peruvian farmer forced to defend her land against the gold-mining industry; Jia Yuchuan’s “The Two Lives of Li Ermao...
Danish documentarian Jørgen Leth, whose 1967 short “The Perfect Human” inspired fellow countryman Lars Von Trier as a film student, will be awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at Idfa this year. The prolific 82-year-old, based in Haiti, is just one of a number of non-fiction heavyweights to be celebrated at the Amsterdam festival, which will also offer posthumous tributes to Agnes Varda and D.A. Pennebaker, who passed away this year.
Under festival director Orwa Nyrabia, in his second year, Idfa continues to focus on directors from emerging territories as well as films dealing with pressing contemporary issues. In the Frontlight section, Claudia Sparrow’s “Maxima” deals with a Peruvian farmer forced to defend her land against the gold-mining industry; Jia Yuchuan’s “The Two Lives of Li Ermao...
- 10/8/2019
- by Damon Wise
- Variety Film + TV
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Lead producing from Erik Hemmendorff & Ruben Östlund’s Plattform Produktion.
Versatile has boarded world sales of Swedish director Ninja Thyberg’s debut feature Jessica expanding on her previous award-winning shorts exploring sexuality and the adult film world such as Hingsten and Pleasure.
Erik Hemmendorff and Ruben Östlund’s Plattform Produktion, which is riding high on Oscar-nominated The Square, is lead producing with Netherlands-based Lemming Film and Sweden’s Film I Väst on board as co-producers, with the support of the Swedish Film Institute.
The story follows 20-year-old Jessica, an uninhibited young woman from a small town in Sweden who moves to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of making it as a professional porn star.
This quest pushes Jessica to her limits, sexually and personally, as she experiences how it feels to be wanted and desired and part of a special tribe. She learns quickly that pandering to the men in the industry helps advance her career...
Versatile has boarded world sales of Swedish director Ninja Thyberg’s debut feature Jessica expanding on her previous award-winning shorts exploring sexuality and the adult film world such as Hingsten and Pleasure.
Erik Hemmendorff and Ruben Östlund’s Plattform Produktion, which is riding high on Oscar-nominated The Square, is lead producing with Netherlands-based Lemming Film and Sweden’s Film I Väst on board as co-producers, with the support of the Swedish Film Institute.
The story follows 20-year-old Jessica, an uninhibited young woman from a small town in Sweden who moves to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of making it as a professional porn star.
This quest pushes Jessica to her limits, sexually and personally, as she experiences how it feels to be wanted and desired and part of a special tribe. She learns quickly that pandering to the men in the industry helps advance her career...
- 2/15/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
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