Cannes Marché: Singing out for Sona
Mumbai-based Deepti Gupta’s Shut Up Sona (sold internationally by Brighton-based Espesso Media) has provoked howls of fury in India, the director tells Business Doc Europe.
Cannes Marché: Ode to Joy
London-based REASON8 Films is selling Joy Womack: The White Swan, Dina Burlis’ feature doc portrait of the American ballet dancer who went to Russia to study at the Bolshoi.
Cannes Docs: Petra Costa to join It’s All True panel June 23
Academy Award-nominated Brazilian director of The Edge of Democracy to join Doc Talk about the convergence between political and autobiographical documentaries in Latin America. Kick-off 17.30 CET
Hitting the Sweet Spot
“We are the new kids on the block on the sales agent documentary landscape,” Anna Berthollet says of Sweet Spot Docs, the company she and her colleagues Bojana Maric and Nevena Milasinovic set up in Switzerland 18 months ago.
Cannes Docs: Met at the Marché
MetFilm Sales are screening three titles at Cannes Marché, including Hot Docs pick-up Meat the Future. They are also pre-selling two upcoming projects - on an unknown Russian female photographer from behind the Iron Curtain, and on sustainable fashion.
Launching under Quarantino
Leading French docs sales agent Anaïs Clanet has given details of her new venture, Reservoir Docs, which is being launched during the Cannes Marché.
Cannes Docs: Geo-diversity assessed during Marché panel
During its Cannes Doc panel on June 24, Ji.hlava IDFF presented updated findings about geo-representation across international film festivals, prompting festival directors and programmers to discuss their selection rationale and modus operandi.
Cannes Marché: Abdalla on the Autlook for “more explosive” stories
Vienna-based documentary powerhouse Autlook is tweaking its strategy in response to the challenges presented by the Covid pandemic. (Photo by Andre Csillag/REX/Shutterstock)
Cannes Marché: Geyrhalter tackles Covid in new doc
Speaking to Business Doc Europe, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, director of Our Daily Bread and Homo Sapiens and one of the heavyweight auteurs of European documentary, has revealed details of his new corona-virus themed feature doc, The Standstill (sold by Autlook).
Cannes Docs: The shock of the real
PARISDOC, the industry arm of Cinéma du Réel, presents four new projects at Cannes Marché, three of which are set in the US, one featuring the niece of murdered Minnesota resident George Floyd.
