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Cannes 2009 Producer’s Patch: Focus Features International

Focus currently have three films that carry enough weight to make everyone take notice without much effort. Ang Lee and Pedro Almodovar are part of the official competition while Alejandro Amenabar’s Agora receives a non- competition slot.
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Focus Features International must be hiding something. Perhaps a result of a sluggish economy, Focus have practically have no titles listed at Cannes – I’ll assume that they have other projects in the works but don’t want to divulge what is behind the doors number one, two and so on. Focus currently have three films that carry enough weight to make everyone take notice without much effort. Ang Lee and Pedro Almodovar are part of the official competition while Alejandro Amenabar‘s Agora receives a non- competition slot. Behind closed doors they’ll be selling Kevin MacDonald‘s Eagle of the Ninth and Noam Baumbach‘s Greenberg.

AGORA  by Alejandro AMENÁBAR – Completed
BROKEN EMBRACES (LOS ABRAZOS ROTOS)  by Pedro ALMODOVAR – Completed
EAGLE OF THE NINTH  by Kevin MACDONALD – Pre-Production
GREENBERG  by Noah BAUMBACH – Production
TAKING WOODSTOCK  by Ang LEE – Completed

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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