France TV Distribution has closed several territory deals for Sylvain Desclous’ “The Victoria System,” starring Damien Bonnard and Jeanne Balibar.
The film has been acquired by Spentzos in Greece, Divisa Red in Spain, Arna Media in the Cis, Nk Content in South Korea, Avjet in Taïwan and Mars in Turkey.
The film centers on David Kolski, who is overseeing the construction of the highest tower ever built in France. The developer’s constant pressure, crushing delivery delays, overworked employees… David lives in a hurry.
One night, while returning home for dinner, he meets a woman of astonishing beauty who captivates him. He is mesmerized. This woman is Victoria. Ambitious and intelligent, beautiful and independent, the human resources director for a multinational company, she runs her life as the ones of her employees, with an iron hand. Immediately, David also finds himself trapped in this fascinating system.
The film is written by Sylvain Desclous,...
The film has been acquired by Spentzos in Greece, Divisa Red in Spain, Arna Media in the Cis, Nk Content in South Korea, Avjet in Taïwan and Mars in Turkey.
The film centers on David Kolski, who is overseeing the construction of the highest tower ever built in France. The developer’s constant pressure, crushing delivery delays, overworked employees… David lives in a hurry.
One night, while returning home for dinner, he meets a woman of astonishing beauty who captivates him. He is mesmerized. This woman is Victoria. Ambitious and intelligent, beautiful and independent, the human resources director for a multinational company, she runs her life as the ones of her employees, with an iron hand. Immediately, David also finds himself trapped in this fascinating system.
The film is written by Sylvain Desclous,...
- 5/14/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
France TV Distribution has taken on international sales for Antoine Lanciaux’s “wildly amibtious” animated adventure feature The Songbirds’ Secret and is launching sales in Cannes.
The film is about nine year-old Lucie who joins her mother for an archaeological dig where she unearths family secrets with the help of a pair of songbirds. Their adventures take them from deep underground a ruined castle to a camper van parked on the edge of the woods.
The children’s adventure film has been created by using paper cut-outs in stop motion animation, “a technique that hasn’t been used in a feature film for over 30 years,...
The film is about nine year-old Lucie who joins her mother for an archaeological dig where she unearths family secrets with the help of a pair of songbirds. Their adventures take them from deep underground a ruined castle to a camper van parked on the edge of the woods.
The children’s adventure film has been created by using paper cut-outs in stop motion animation, “a technique that hasn’t been used in a feature film for over 30 years,...
- 4/24/2024
- ScreenDaily
€2m invested in 11 films and TV series.
Gerrit Bekers’ Quentin Blake’s Box Of Treasures, a series of six animated stories by the UK illustrator and storyteller, has received backing from Screen Flanders in the latest tranche of funding that sees €2m invested in 11 films and TV series
It is produced by Walter Iuzzolino’s UK outfit Eagle Eye with Belgium’s Creative Conspiracy. The main animation studio is Spicy Acorn in Ghent. Aardman will sell the series internationally. BBC, Vrt and France Télé are also on board.
Screen Flanders is also backing Dorien Goertzen’s musical Just Like In...
Gerrit Bekers’ Quentin Blake’s Box Of Treasures, a series of six animated stories by the UK illustrator and storyteller, has received backing from Screen Flanders in the latest tranche of funding that sees €2m invested in 11 films and TV series
It is produced by Walter Iuzzolino’s UK outfit Eagle Eye with Belgium’s Creative Conspiracy. The main animation studio is Spicy Acorn in Ghent. Aardman will sell the series internationally. BBC, Vrt and France Télé are also on board.
Screen Flanders is also backing Dorien Goertzen’s musical Just Like In...
- 5/23/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
“The Ballad of Yaya,” “Where is Anne Frank?” and “Musketeers of the Tsar” proved the most-attended of industry presentations among 66 feature projects pitched at this year Cartoon Movie, Europe’s top animated feature co-production forum which ran at the French port city of Bordeaux over March 5-7.
A production of Blue Spirit Productions, the company behind François Laguionie’s César-nominated “The Painting” and Claude Barras’ “My Life as a Zucchini,” “The Ballad of Yaya” is penned by Patrick Marty, Céline Ronté and Antoine Schoumsk. The director is yet to be confirmed.
Set in 1937, in development, and targeting 6-12s, it turns on 9-year-old Chinese girl Yaya, raised in the French Concession in Shanghai, who flees Japanese bombings to join her family in Hong Kong.
Already in production and targeting family audiences “Where is Anne Frank?” is the new project of Ari Folman, a revisitation of the Nazi legacy through the...
A production of Blue Spirit Productions, the company behind François Laguionie’s César-nominated “The Painting” and Claude Barras’ “My Life as a Zucchini,” “The Ballad of Yaya” is penned by Patrick Marty, Céline Ronté and Antoine Schoumsk. The director is yet to be confirmed.
Set in 1937, in development, and targeting 6-12s, it turns on 9-year-old Chinese girl Yaya, raised in the French Concession in Shanghai, who flees Japanese bombings to join her family in Hong Kong.
Already in production and targeting family audiences “Where is Anne Frank?” is the new project of Ari Folman, a revisitation of the Nazi legacy through the...
- 3/11/2019
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Reviewed by Andra Zadnik
(May 2011)
Directed by: Jacques-Rémy Girerd
Written by: Benoît Chieux, Antoine Lanciaux and Iouri Tcherenkov
Featuring the voices of: John Dimaggio, Whoopie Goldberg, Matthew Modine, Wallace Shawn and James Woods
In the animated feature “Mia and the Migoo,” Jacques-Rémy Girerd creates a world that articulates the beauty (and necessity) of cel animation. In the film, Mia (voiced by newcomer Amanda Misquez) says a tearful goodbye to her mother’s grave and sets out on an adventure to find her father (Jesse Corti) who has been harmed in an accident deep within the mountains far from her town. She encounters various unique personalities on the way, along with a fascinating creature, the Migoo.
As the character travels, she moves through surroundings that look as if they were painted by a French impressionist. From a remote village to the foliage of a jungle, the animated world art director Benoît Chieux...
(May 2011)
Directed by: Jacques-Rémy Girerd
Written by: Benoît Chieux, Antoine Lanciaux and Iouri Tcherenkov
Featuring the voices of: John Dimaggio, Whoopie Goldberg, Matthew Modine, Wallace Shawn and James Woods
In the animated feature “Mia and the Migoo,” Jacques-Rémy Girerd creates a world that articulates the beauty (and necessity) of cel animation. In the film, Mia (voiced by newcomer Amanda Misquez) says a tearful goodbye to her mother’s grave and sets out on an adventure to find her father (Jesse Corti) who has been harmed in an accident deep within the mountains far from her town. She encounters various unique personalities on the way, along with a fascinating creature, the Migoo.
As the character travels, she moves through surroundings that look as if they were painted by a French impressionist. From a remote village to the foliage of a jungle, the animated world art director Benoît Chieux...
- 5/6/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Andra Zadnik
(May 2011)
Directed by: Jacques-Rémy Girerd
Written by: Benoît Chieux, Antoine Lanciaux and Iouri Tcherenkov
Featuring the voices of: John Dimaggio, Whoopie Goldberg, Matthew Modine, Wallace Shawn and James Woods
In the animated feature “Mia and the Migoo,” Jacques-Rémy Girerd creates a world that articulates the beauty (and necessity) of cel animation. In the film, Mia (voiced by newcomer Amanda Misquez) says a tearful goodbye to her mother’s grave and sets out on an adventure to find her father (Jesse Corti) who has been harmed in an accident deep within the mountains far from her town. She encounters various unique personalities on the way, along with a fascinating creature, the Migoo.
As the character travels, she moves through surroundings that look as if they were painted by a French impressionist. From a remote village to the foliage of a jungle, the animated world art director Benoît Chieux...
(May 2011)
Directed by: Jacques-Rémy Girerd
Written by: Benoît Chieux, Antoine Lanciaux and Iouri Tcherenkov
Featuring the voices of: John Dimaggio, Whoopie Goldberg, Matthew Modine, Wallace Shawn and James Woods
In the animated feature “Mia and the Migoo,” Jacques-Rémy Girerd creates a world that articulates the beauty (and necessity) of cel animation. In the film, Mia (voiced by newcomer Amanda Misquez) says a tearful goodbye to her mother’s grave and sets out on an adventure to find her father (Jesse Corti) who has been harmed in an accident deep within the mountains far from her town. She encounters various unique personalities on the way, along with a fascinating creature, the Migoo.
As the character travels, she moves through surroundings that look as if they were painted by a French impressionist. From a remote village to the foliage of a jungle, the animated world art director Benoît Chieux...
- 5/6/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
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