Top European industry players including senior executives from Pathé Films, Mikros, Wild Bunch Distribution and Warner Bros. have joined forces to launch a one-stop-shop production banner called N9ne Studio. The outfit plans to invest over €30 million (31 million) over the next five years to fully finance content development.
The pan-European hub is being launched in association with Ikav Group, a thriving asset management company chaired by Constantin von Wasserschleben and headquartered in Germany with offices in Luxembourg, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the U.K., the U.S. and France. Advised by Cinecapital, Schubert Collin, Rbb and Taylor Wessing, N9ne Studio will focus on the development and co-production of films and TV series.
The company is being created by Gilles Gaillard, the co-founder of Mikros Animation who collaborated on
“Sponge Bob” and ”Asterix;” the financiers Stéphane Marchi and Terry Keeley, producers Vincent
Roget, the former bosses of Pathé Films Romain Le Grand...
The pan-European hub is being launched in association with Ikav Group, a thriving asset management company chaired by Constantin von Wasserschleben and headquartered in Germany with offices in Luxembourg, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the U.K., the U.S. and France. Advised by Cinecapital, Schubert Collin, Rbb and Taylor Wessing, N9ne Studio will focus on the development and co-production of films and TV series.
The company is being created by Gilles Gaillard, the co-founder of Mikros Animation who collaborated on
“Sponge Bob” and ”Asterix;” the financiers Stéphane Marchi and Terry Keeley, producers Vincent
Roget, the former bosses of Pathé Films Romain Le Grand...
- 5/4/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The aim is to make France a leading and sustainable international production hub.
France’s National Cinema Centre (Cnc) has launched a temporary €10m funding line to support initiatives aimed at modernising the infrastructure of the French film, TV and video games sectors as they rebuild following the economic shock of the Covid-19 pandemic.
It will invest up to €800,000 in individual large-scale infrastructure projects aimed at making France’s audiovisual and creative digital industries more competitive internationally. The new funding will run alongside other emergency Covid-19 support programmes aimed at hard-hit sectors of the audiovisual sector such as distribution and exhibition.
France’s National Cinema Centre (Cnc) has launched a temporary €10m funding line to support initiatives aimed at modernising the infrastructure of the French film, TV and video games sectors as they rebuild following the economic shock of the Covid-19 pandemic.
It will invest up to €800,000 in individual large-scale infrastructure projects aimed at making France’s audiovisual and creative digital industries more competitive internationally. The new funding will run alongside other emergency Covid-19 support programmes aimed at hard-hit sectors of the audiovisual sector such as distribution and exhibition.
- 1/26/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Jane Campion, Abbas Kiarostami, Pablo Trapero and Nicole Garcia will serve as Presidents of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival Juries.
In Competition Jury
Jane Campion will serve as President of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival Jury, leading a panel of 8 other jury members, including director Sofia Coppola and actor Willem Dafoe.
Campion, a New Zealand filmmaker, is the only woman ever to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes, winning for her 1993 film The Piano. Since then, Campion has only had one film in competition at the festival, Bright Star (2009), and has served as President of the Cinéfondation & Short Films Jury.
“It is this world wide inclusiveness and passion for film at the heart of the festival which makes the importance of the Cannes Film Festival indisputable. It is a mythical and exciting festival where amazing things can happen, actors are discovered, films are financed, careers are made, I know this because...
In Competition Jury
Jane Campion will serve as President of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival Jury, leading a panel of 8 other jury members, including director Sofia Coppola and actor Willem Dafoe.
Campion, a New Zealand filmmaker, is the only woman ever to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes, winning for her 1993 film The Piano. Since then, Campion has only had one film in competition at the festival, Bright Star (2009), and has served as President of the Cinéfondation & Short Films Jury.
“It is this world wide inclusiveness and passion for film at the heart of the festival which makes the importance of the Cannes Film Festival indisputable. It is a mythical and exciting festival where amazing things can happen, actors are discovered, films are financed, careers are made, I know this because...
- 5/13/2014
- Uinterview
One of the key awards at Cannes is the Camera d'Or, launched in 1978, which goes to the best film from a first-time filmmaker in the Official Selection, La Semaine de la Critique and Directors’ Fortnight. Past winners include Benh Zeitlin, whose 2012 "Beast of the Southern Wild" went on to nab Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay and Actress, as well as Jim Jarmusch ("Stranger than Paradise," 1984), Mira Nair ("Salaam Bombay!", 1988), John Turturro ("Mac," 1992), Marc Levin ("Slam," 1998), Miranda July ("Me, You and Everyone We Know," 2005), and Steve McQueen ("Hunger," 2008). It's a career launch prize. In 2014, fifteen films will be vying for the Camera d'Or award to be presented during the Awards Ceremony on Saturday May 24th. French director Nicole Garcia will preside. Here's the jury: Nicole Garcia, President, actress and director Richard Anconina, actor Gilles Gaillard, technician Sophie Grassin, journalist and critic Héléna...
- 5/11/2014
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Argentine director Pablo Trapero to preside over Un Certain Regard; actress-director Nicole Garcia to head Camera d’Or jury.
Just days before the launch of the Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25), two more juries have been revealed.
As previously announced, Argentine director Pablo Trapero will preside over the five-member jury, which will also include:
Peter Becker, President of The Criterion Collection (Us)
Maria Bonnevie, actress (Norway / Sweden)
Géraldine Pailhas, actress (France)
Moussa Touré, director, scriptwriter, producer (Sénégal)
Bonnevie is best known for her roles in I Am Dina (2002) and The 13th Warrior (1999), and will next be seen in Susanne Bier’s En Chance Til.
Pailhas is best known for Don Juan DeMarco (1994), Palme d’Or nominee Jeune & Jolie (2013) and The Returned (2004)
The 20 films taking part in Un Certain Regard will be screened in the Debussy Theatre from May 15-23. The opening film will be Party Girl by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Théis, a debut movie...
Just days before the launch of the Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25), two more juries have been revealed.
As previously announced, Argentine director Pablo Trapero will preside over the five-member jury, which will also include:
Peter Becker, President of The Criterion Collection (Us)
Maria Bonnevie, actress (Norway / Sweden)
Géraldine Pailhas, actress (France)
Moussa Touré, director, scriptwriter, producer (Sénégal)
Bonnevie is best known for her roles in I Am Dina (2002) and The 13th Warrior (1999), and will next be seen in Susanne Bier’s En Chance Til.
Pailhas is best known for Don Juan DeMarco (1994), Palme d’Or nominee Jeune & Jolie (2013) and The Returned (2004)
The 20 films taking part in Un Certain Regard will be screened in the Debussy Theatre from May 15-23. The opening film will be Party Girl by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Théis, a debut movie...
- 5/11/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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