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Key Players in the 2011 Cannes Market: Focus Features Int.
Meetings at the Focus Features Int. office this year must be short and sweet -- as they don't have plenty of volume in the pipeline -- but do manage to have some titles worth considering and this includes Mike Mills' brilliant Beginners and the pre-fall release of Lone Scherfig's One Day, but also currently in production films from the Wachowskis and one from Paul Weitz that should fetch big dollars.
Key Players in the 2011 Cannes Market: Film Distribution
With a half dozen titles in the sidebars, the Parisian Sales Agent Film Distribution folks are certainly going to be hosting several parties. At the top of the list they've got Bertrand Bonello's House of Tolerance. In the waiting, we find the co. pushing Brillante Mendoza's latest entitled Captured - a film that features a Croisette fixture in the popular Isabelle Huppert.
Key Players in the 2011 Cannes Market: Coproduction Office
The sales agent and production company had one heck of a year in 2010 with Le Quattro Volte and Aurora, this year they got two features (Blue Bird and Play) and a Boro in the Box (40-minute film) all playing in the Directors' Fortnight. Of interest we have Ilya Khrzhanovsky still working on Dau (see pic above) --- a Cannes 2012 selection folks?
Key Players in the 2011 Cannes Market: Filmnation Ent.
In a very short amount of time, NYC/LA based Filmnation Ent. have padded themselves a hell of a slate including Terrence Malick's forthcoming film (not The Tree of Life...the other one - see pic above) John Hillcoat's Wettest County and in this year's Cannes they have the excellent Take Shelter (in my top 2 from Sundance) and Pedro Almodovar's huge Main Comp buzz title.
Key Players in the 2011 Cannes Market: Films Boutique
Films Boutique is a sales agent from Germany with a penchant for international film items. This year they rep a pair of Cannes selected titles in the Directors' Fortnight selected director's cut version of Guilty of Romance from Sion Sono and Valérie Mrejen's En Ville. Among the big titles for art-house lovers they are repping Alexander Sokurov's Faust -- which I guess finally wasn't ready for a Cannes inclusion.
