Ginger & Fed, the new international film sales arm of Federation Studios headed by former TF1 Studio boss Sabine Chemaly, will launch several high profile titles at the Unifrance Rendez-Vous, including “The Future Awaits,” Niels Tavernier’s WWII-set drama based on the true story of a Holocaust survivor. Ginger & Fed will also bow sales on “Riviera Revenge,” a heartwarming comedy starring André Dussollier (“The Crime is Mine”), Sabine Azéma (“Tanguy”) and Thierry Lhermitte (“The Dinner Game”), along with continuing deals on “Rachel’s Game,” “Survive” and “Oldies and Goodies.”
Produced by Yves Darondeau at Bonne Pioche Cinema (“March of the Penguins”), “The Future Awaits” tells the story of Tauba Birenbaum, whose testimony was collected in July 1997 to become part of Steven Spielberg’s Institute for Visual History. The film opens in July 1942, during the Vel’ d’Hiv’ Roundup of Jewish families in Paris. 13-year-old Tauba and her parents, who are Polish Jews,...
Produced by Yves Darondeau at Bonne Pioche Cinema (“March of the Penguins”), “The Future Awaits” tells the story of Tauba Birenbaum, whose testimony was collected in July 1997 to become part of Steven Spielberg’s Institute for Visual History. The film opens in July 1942, during the Vel’ d’Hiv’ Roundup of Jewish families in Paris. 13-year-old Tauba and her parents, who are Polish Jews,...
- 1/15/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Line-up includes ’Meet The Leroys’ starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and José Garcia.
Newen Connect has added a trio of star-powered French comedies – Meet The Leroys, Here & There and Karaoké – to its slate and the TF1-owned company will kick off sales for the new films at AFM.
Meet The Leroys is written and directed by International Emmy-nominated Florent Bernard (Le Flambeau) and stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and José Garcia in a story of a man facing divorce who attempts to rekindle his wife’s affections by taking her and their teenage children on a road trip down memory lane.
The film is...
Newen Connect has added a trio of star-powered French comedies – Meet The Leroys, Here & There and Karaoké – to its slate and the TF1-owned company will kick off sales for the new films at AFM.
Meet The Leroys is written and directed by International Emmy-nominated Florent Bernard (Le Flambeau) and stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and José Garcia in a story of a man facing divorce who attempts to rekindle his wife’s affections by taking her and their teenage children on a road trip down memory lane.
The film is...
- 10/27/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Pascal Breton’s Federation Studios has launched an international theatrical sales label, Ginger & Fed, teaming up with former TF1 Studio sales executive Sabine Chemaly’s Ginger Films on the new division.
Chemaly will head up the new group, handling both film acquisitions and international sales, focusing on titles with theatrical potential in various international territories. She will work together with Federation’s sales team of Monica Levy, Guillaume Pommier, Sarah Zarka, Lucile Avezard and Jeromine Ader, as well as the company’s business affairs, servicing and marketing teams.
The first project under the new label will be Survive, a post-apocalyptic thriller from Monkey Pack, the Federation Studios-owned producers of Coralie Fargeat’s 2017 action horror hit Revenge. Frédéric Jardin is directing with Émilie Dequenne (Love Affair(s)) and Andreas Pietschmann (Dark) starring as a couple celebrating their son’s birthday on their boat in the middle of the ocean. But when...
Chemaly will head up the new group, handling both film acquisitions and international sales, focusing on titles with theatrical potential in various international territories. She will work together with Federation’s sales team of Monica Levy, Guillaume Pommier, Sarah Zarka, Lucile Avezard and Jeromine Ader, as well as the company’s business affairs, servicing and marketing teams.
The first project under the new label will be Survive, a post-apocalyptic thriller from Monkey Pack, the Federation Studios-owned producers of Coralie Fargeat’s 2017 action horror hit Revenge. Frédéric Jardin is directing with Émilie Dequenne (Love Affair(s)) and Andreas Pietschmann (Dark) starring as a couple celebrating their son’s birthday on their boat in the middle of the ocean. But when...
- 10/26/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Federation Studios has launched an international theatrical film sales division with Sabine Chemaly.
The label will be called Ginger & Fed and is created in partnership with Chemaly’s recently-formed Ginger Films.
In charge of both film acquisitions and international sales, Chemaly will spearhead Ginger & Fed, whilst working closely with Federation’s sales team – Monica Levy, Guillaume Pommier, Sarah Zarka, Lucile Avezard and Jeromine Ader – along with their business affairs, servicing and marketing team.
Ginger & Fed’s first project will be post-apocalyptic thriller Survive from Federation outfit Robin & Co and M.E.S. Productions. The film, featuring Émilie Dequenne (Love Affair(s), Rosetta) and Andreas Pietschmann (Dark), is directed by Frédéric Jardin and Kmbo will release it theatrically in France. Sales are being co-handled with WTFilms. Two comedies, both released in France by Apollo, will quickly follow the inaugural launch: Rachel’s Game, a police project directed by Thierry Klifa, and Oldies but...
The label will be called Ginger & Fed and is created in partnership with Chemaly’s recently-formed Ginger Films.
In charge of both film acquisitions and international sales, Chemaly will spearhead Ginger & Fed, whilst working closely with Federation’s sales team – Monica Levy, Guillaume Pommier, Sarah Zarka, Lucile Avezard and Jeromine Ader – along with their business affairs, servicing and marketing team.
Ginger & Fed’s first project will be post-apocalyptic thriller Survive from Federation outfit Robin & Co and M.E.S. Productions. The film, featuring Émilie Dequenne (Love Affair(s), Rosetta) and Andreas Pietschmann (Dark), is directed by Frédéric Jardin and Kmbo will release it theatrically in France. Sales are being co-handled with WTFilms. Two comedies, both released in France by Apollo, will quickly follow the inaugural launch: Rachel’s Game, a police project directed by Thierry Klifa, and Oldies but...
- 10/26/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
First slate to include Rachel’s Game, Oldies But Goodies, Survive.
Powerhouse Paris-based media group Federation Studios has joined forces with veteran sales executive Sabine Chemaly to launch international film sales company Ginger & Fed.
The new venture, a partnership between Federation and Chemaly’s Ginger Films, will take on acquisitions and international sales for both in-house and third party films.
The feature-focused foray is an extension of Federation’s existing distribution of fiction, documentary and children’s programming and presence in production via global companies like Bonne Pioche, Cheyenne and Monkey Pack (Robin & Co) in France, Vertigo in the UK,...
Powerhouse Paris-based media group Federation Studios has joined forces with veteran sales executive Sabine Chemaly to launch international film sales company Ginger & Fed.
The new venture, a partnership between Federation and Chemaly’s Ginger Films, will take on acquisitions and international sales for both in-house and third party films.
The feature-focused foray is an extension of Federation’s existing distribution of fiction, documentary and children’s programming and presence in production via global companies like Bonne Pioche, Cheyenne and Monkey Pack (Robin & Co) in France, Vertigo in the UK,...
- 10/26/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov win the Golden Atlas. The Silver Atlas goes to Marko Skop for Let There Be Light and the Audience Award goes to Federico Bondi’s Dafne. The competition jury of the 20th Arras Film Festival, chaired by French filmmaker Thierry Klifa, has bestowed the Golden Atlas - Grand Jury Prize upon The Father by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov. Already crowned Best Film at Karlovy Vary and screened in Toronto, the third feature from the Bulgarian duo, after The Lesson and Glory, has also won in Arras the Critics’ Award and the Youth Jury Award. Written by the two directors with their usual partner Decho Taralezkov, the tender and hilarious film recounts the misadventures of a son (Ivan Barnev) trying his best to desperately contain the whims of his father (Ivan Savov) following the death of his mother. Produced by Bulgarian company Abraxas and co-produced by.
- 11/18/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
126 films from 40 countries, including 78 premieres and titles as-yet unreleased in France, will be on the line-up from 8-17 November, accompanied by 156 guests from 16 European nations. The Arras Film Festival, a real springboard for emerging European talents, and a congenial and highly popular event that is much loved by the filmmaking teams thanks to its proximity to Paris, will be celebrating its 20th birthday in grand style from 8-17 November, propped up by a supersize and mouth-watering programme. Nine films as-yet unseen in France will be duking it out for the 2019 Golden Atlas, which will be handed out by a jury chaired by French filmmaker Thierry Klifa. Standing out among them are the world premiere of Negative Numbers by Georgia’s Uta Beria, the European premiere of Carturan by Romania’s Liviu Sandulescu and two international premieres: The Iron Bridge by...
A belabored social thriller where two rich femmes have their lives upended by a pair of down-and-out street thugs, All That Divides Us (Tout nous separe) is one of those movies that often seems too far-fetched to be for real.
And even in its far-fetchedness, there’s precious little that convinces in director Thierry Klifa’s latest collaboration with Catherine Deneuve, who stars as a mother willing to do anything — whether hiding a body, wielding a shotgun or hanging with local gangstas — to save her strung-out daughter from prison. The fact that said daughter is played by Diane Kruger, slumming...
And even in its far-fetchedness, there’s precious little that convinces in director Thierry Klifa’s latest collaboration with Catherine Deneuve, who stars as a mother willing to do anything — whether hiding a body, wielding a shotgun or hanging with local gangstas — to save her strung-out daughter from prison. The fact that said daughter is played by Diane Kruger, slumming...
- 11/12/2017
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Catherine Deneuve Catherine Deneuve, 68, will be the recipient of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's 39th Chaplin Award. The annual fundraising gala benefiting Lincoln Center programs will be held on Monday, April 2, at the Alice Tully Hall in New York. The evening will include films clips and a party. [Full list of Film Society of Lincoln Center (Fslc) Chaplin Award Honorees.] Catherine Deneuve's career spans more than five decades, from André Hunebelle's Les collégiennes / The Schoolgirls (1957), Jacques-Gérard Cornu's L'homme à femmes / Ladies Man (1960), and Michel Fermaud and Jacques Poitrenaud's Les Portes claquent / The Door Slams 1960) to her latest efforts: Christophe Honoré's Les Biens-aimés / The Beloved, shown at last year's Cannes Film Festival; Thierry Klifa's Les Yeux de sa mère / His Mother's Eyes; and Laurent Tirard's upcoming Astérix et Obélix: Au Service de Sa Majesté / Astérix et Obélix: On Her Majesty's Secret Service, as Cordelia, the Queen of England, opposite frequent co-star Gérard Depardieu and Edouard Baer.
- 1/11/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
In addition to the pair of films that were accepted into the Cannes film festival (The Prodigies and Days of Grace), they have Sylvie Testud, Juan Solanas, Quentin Dupieux items in the works. French sales outfit Kinology have got a solid 2012 ahead of them. Cosmopolis by David Cronenberg - Pre-Production His Mother's Eyes (Les Yeux De Sa Mere) by Thierry Klifa - Completed The Prodigies (La Nuit Des Enfants Rois) by Antoine Charreyron - Completed At Gino's (Chez Gino) by Samuel Benchetrit - Completed Days Of Grace (Dias De Gracia) by Everardo Gout - Completed De Force by Frank Henry - Post-Production Dubai Flamingos by Delphine Kreuter - Completed Emergo by Carles Torrens - Post-Production Mon Pere Est Femme De Menage by Saphia Azzeddine - Completed Rebellion (L'ordre Et La Morale) by Mathieu Kassovitz - Completed Small World (Je N'ai Rien OUBLIÉ) by Bruno Chiche - Completed The Art Of Love...
- 5/13/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
The 15th City of Lights, City of Angels, a festival with both a handy acronym, Col•Coa, and a winning subtitle, "A Week of French Film Premieres in Hollywood," has opened with Philippe Le Guay's Service Entrance and closes on Sunday with Dany Boon's Nothing to Declare. In all, 34 features and 26 shorts will be screened, and we're teaming up with the festival to present five of those shorts for free. All five have been made by students of La fémis in Paris (whose alumni, by the way, include Laurent Cantet, Costa-Gavras, Claire Denis, Louis Malle, Arnaud Desplechin, Claude Miller, François Ozon and Alain Resnais). You can view our offering here.
In Brice Pancot's À cor et à cir (image above), a woman who's just turned her car over is discovered by a man and his son; see the teaser here. In Marion Desseigne-Ravel's Uniform (Les Murs...
In Brice Pancot's À cor et à cir (image above), a woman who's just turned her car over is discovered by a man and his son; see the teaser here. In Marion Desseigne-Ravel's Uniform (Les Murs...
- 4/18/2011
- MUBI
PARIS -- Thierry Klifa is a former journalist with Studio magazine with stars in his eyes, and in "The Family Hero" (Le heros de la famille), his second feature, it shows. Half a dozen stellar talents light up this multistranded comedy set in a cabaret, which, though it provides several pleasurable moments, ultimately fails to dazzle.
Name recognition, high production values and a literate script by Klifa and Christopher Thompson -- who visited similar territory in "Orchestra Seats", directed by his mother, Daniele Thompson -- should ensure that the movie finds an audience both at home and abroad. But some might find that the movie adds up to rather less than the sum of its parts.
The death of cabaret owner and drag artist Gabriel(le) Stern (Claude Brasseur) and his decision to leave his establishment, the Perroquet Bleu, not to his protege of the past 40 years, Nicky Guazzini (Gerard Lanvin), but rather to Nicky's children by different mothers, Marianne (Geraldine Pailhas) and Nino (Michael Cohen), leaves all concerned with difficult decisions to make.
The movie's title is doubly ironic in that not only has Nicky been decidedly unheroic in his life but he also has spread his affections widely, and the "family" includes Marianne's mother, Simone Garcia (Miou-Miou), Nino's mother, Alice Mirmont (Catherine Deneuve), and Lea O'Connor (Emmanuelle Beart), the torch singer who is his latest flame.
The fallout over Gabriel's legacy is the occasion for much soul-searching and raking over the characters' back stories. Simone, it emerges, had engaged in a long-standing secret affair with Gabriel. Alice, purportedly Gabriel's press attache, proves to have been the star attraction of the brothel he had been running in a hidden annex at the back of the theater. Marianne's husband is walking out on her because she can't bear children and does not want to adopt. Simone too suddenly finds herself abandoned by her husband.
When Marianne and Nino -- who provides a gay-themed subplot -- announce that they will be selling, Nicky, knowing that he does not really cut the mustard as a stage conjurer, has to face up to the prospect of moving on. Options include moving in with Lea, who has received an attractive offer elsewhere, or emigrating to the U.S. Offering a sardonic but affectionate commentary on his dilemma is Gabriel, who makes occasional posthumous appearances in the manner of the father in the HBO series "Six Feet Under".
With such a thin story line, the movie stands or falls on the interest of the incidental details, of which there are plenty. Indeed, spectators might at first find it hard work keeping tabs on who is related to whom and in what way.
The first-rate cast, which includes Valerie Lemercier as Pamela, the martinet who keeps the mainly Russian troupe in the floor show in line, means that Klifa can hardly fail to maintain a grip on a moviegoer's attention. Further attractions include the sight and sound of Beart singing in her own voice and a comic vignette by Miou-Miou in which Simone falls foul of her former husband's temper during an onstage rehearsal where he is to saw her in half.
THE FAMILY HERO
SBS Films, Edelweiss, France 2 Cinema
Credits:
Director: Thierry Klifa
Screenwriters: Christopher Thompson, Thierry Klifa
Producer: Said ben Said
Director of photography: Pierre Aim
Production designer: Francois Emmanuelli
Music: David Moreau
Costume designer: Catherine Leterrier
Editor: Luc Barnier
Cast:
Nicky Guazzini: Gerard Lanvin
Alice Mirmont: Catherine Deneuve
Lea O'Connor: Emmanuelle Beart
Simone Garcia: Miou-Miou
Marianne Bensalem: Geraldine Pailhas
Nino Bensalem: Michael Cohen
Gabriel(le) Stern: Claude Brasseur
Pamela: Valerie Lemercier
Fabrice: Pierrick Lilliu
Running time -- 100 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Name recognition, high production values and a literate script by Klifa and Christopher Thompson -- who visited similar territory in "Orchestra Seats", directed by his mother, Daniele Thompson -- should ensure that the movie finds an audience both at home and abroad. But some might find that the movie adds up to rather less than the sum of its parts.
The death of cabaret owner and drag artist Gabriel(le) Stern (Claude Brasseur) and his decision to leave his establishment, the Perroquet Bleu, not to his protege of the past 40 years, Nicky Guazzini (Gerard Lanvin), but rather to Nicky's children by different mothers, Marianne (Geraldine Pailhas) and Nino (Michael Cohen), leaves all concerned with difficult decisions to make.
The movie's title is doubly ironic in that not only has Nicky been decidedly unheroic in his life but he also has spread his affections widely, and the "family" includes Marianne's mother, Simone Garcia (Miou-Miou), Nino's mother, Alice Mirmont (Catherine Deneuve), and Lea O'Connor (Emmanuelle Beart), the torch singer who is his latest flame.
The fallout over Gabriel's legacy is the occasion for much soul-searching and raking over the characters' back stories. Simone, it emerges, had engaged in a long-standing secret affair with Gabriel. Alice, purportedly Gabriel's press attache, proves to have been the star attraction of the brothel he had been running in a hidden annex at the back of the theater. Marianne's husband is walking out on her because she can't bear children and does not want to adopt. Simone too suddenly finds herself abandoned by her husband.
When Marianne and Nino -- who provides a gay-themed subplot -- announce that they will be selling, Nicky, knowing that he does not really cut the mustard as a stage conjurer, has to face up to the prospect of moving on. Options include moving in with Lea, who has received an attractive offer elsewhere, or emigrating to the U.S. Offering a sardonic but affectionate commentary on his dilemma is Gabriel, who makes occasional posthumous appearances in the manner of the father in the HBO series "Six Feet Under".
With such a thin story line, the movie stands or falls on the interest of the incidental details, of which there are plenty. Indeed, spectators might at first find it hard work keeping tabs on who is related to whom and in what way.
The first-rate cast, which includes Valerie Lemercier as Pamela, the martinet who keeps the mainly Russian troupe in the floor show in line, means that Klifa can hardly fail to maintain a grip on a moviegoer's attention. Further attractions include the sight and sound of Beart singing in her own voice and a comic vignette by Miou-Miou in which Simone falls foul of her former husband's temper during an onstage rehearsal where he is to saw her in half.
THE FAMILY HERO
SBS Films, Edelweiss, France 2 Cinema
Credits:
Director: Thierry Klifa
Screenwriters: Christopher Thompson, Thierry Klifa
Producer: Said ben Said
Director of photography: Pierre Aim
Production designer: Francois Emmanuelli
Music: David Moreau
Costume designer: Catherine Leterrier
Editor: Luc Barnier
Cast:
Nicky Guazzini: Gerard Lanvin
Alice Mirmont: Catherine Deneuve
Lea O'Connor: Emmanuelle Beart
Simone Garcia: Miou-Miou
Marianne Bensalem: Geraldine Pailhas
Nino Bensalem: Michael Cohen
Gabriel(le) Stern: Claude Brasseur
Pamela: Valerie Lemercier
Fabrice: Pierrick Lilliu
Running time -- 100 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 12/27/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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