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Paris and Los Angeles-based sales agency has boarded films by Nicolas Benamou, Artus and Christophe Duthuron

Paris and Los Angeles-based Other Angle Pictures has boarded three French comedy dramas: Nicolas Benamou’s We Should Have Gone to Greece, Artus’ A Little Something Extra and Christophe Duthuron’s Happiness Therapy.

The company will launch sales for all three films at this week’s Unifrance’s Rendez-Vous in Paris in the French capital.

We Should Have Gone to Greece is the latest feature from Benamou, known for co-directing local and international hit comedies Babysitting and Babysitting 2 with Philippe Lacheau, 2020’s Mystery in St. Tropez,...

After shedding light on Drancy, a French housing project that served as a concentration camp during the Holocaust in “The Silenced Walls,” Sabrina Van Tassel delivered a multi-faceted portrayal of Melissa Lucio, the first Hispanic woman on death row in Texas in her new feature.

“The State of Texas v. Melissa,” which is having its world premiere as part of the postponed Tribeca Film Festival, isn’t another true crime documentary, even though the narrative is supported by a wealth of material, including police and court files, archives, as well as interviews with key family members, lawyers, prosecutors and even a private detective.

Lushly lensed and scored with acoustic guitar, the cinematic documentary compellingly explores the life journey and psyche of Lucio, her broken childhood, the abuse she endured, her relationships with mother and siblings. This provides some context into the tragic turn that Lucio’s life took 13 years ago,...

Following his departure from The Walt Disney Company, Jean-François Camilleri has joined the French production company Echo Studio as president. The Paris-based independent company was launched two years ago and is dedicated to producing internationally-driven content with political, social and environmental themes in a similar vein as Participant Media.

One of France’s most respected industry figures, Camilleri was executive vice president and country manager for The Walt Disney Company France, Benelux and French-speaking Africa; he also founded and ran the distribution label Disneynature. He started working for Buena Vista International in 1990, and shortly after participated in the creation of Gaumont Buena Vista International in Paris.

At Echo Studio, Camilleri will develop Echo Studio activities, including content production, distribution, social impact campaigns, digital and experiences.

Following Jean-François’ departure from Disney, it seemed natural for us to ask him to join Echo Studio adventure as our partner and as President. His...

Echo Studio, the Paris-based company behind Rodd Rathjen’s Panorama drama “Buoyancy,” is set to produce “Walking on Water,” the feature debut of Dakar-born French actress Aissa Maiga, Sabrina Van Tassel’s “A Death Foretold” and “Food” (working title), a culinary documentary from famed French chef Jean Imbert.

Echo Studio, which launched at Cannes last year with first-look deals with Walt Disney France and the sales outfit Charades, was created to develop and produce fiction and non-fiction films and series that carry political, social and environmental themes and are meant to have a global appeal, in a similar vein as Participant Media.

Currently in development, “Walking on Water” will follow Maiga for over a year in a Nigerian village that has suffered water shortage and shed light on the transformation of the village with the arrival of clean water.

” ‘Walking on Water’ will be a poetic and cinematic African fable...

Mathieu Amalric‬'s Barbara star ‪Jeanne Balibar‬ is directing Mathieu, Ramzy Bédia, Emmanuelle Béart, and Bulle Ogier in ‪Merveilles À Montfermeil Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

At the 56th New York Film Festival Jeanne Balibar can be seen in Pawel Pawlikowski's Cold War (Cannes Film Festival Best Director winner) starring Tomasz Kot and Joanna Kulig. Mathieu Amalric is in the Closing Night film, Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate with Willem Dafoe as Vincent van Gogh.

Jeanne Balibar is currently in France directing Merveilles À Montfermeil. Mathieu Amalric sent the following: "Martine Marignac is producing Jeanne’s film inside my small structure named Film(s). But a lot of co-producers and friends made this film possible. Isaac Sharry (Vito films); Edouard Weil (Rectangle), Jean Cottin (les films du Cap); Benjamin Duval et Jean Pierre Gavini (Les Fils De)... And Régine Vial (Les Films du Losange) for thé distribution. It’s...

Eyes Wide Open Directed by: Haim Tabakman. Starring: Zohar Strauss, Ran Danker, Tzahi Grad, Isaac Sharry   This searing portrait of sexuality and religion was launched at The Cannes Film Festival to an enthusiastic response. Although its subject - the cultural suffocation of gay lovers - is hardly new material, that the film explores it in the context of marriage, age-disparity and Orthodox Judaism is provocative indeed. This beautifully understated film is not to all tastes - its patient approach would induce restless toe-tapping in those more accustomed to the energy of, say, Iron Man. But if thoughtful, often painful exploration of suppressed humanity is to your taste, then Eyes Wide Open is your film.

This is the Pure Movies review of Einaym Pkuhot, directed by Haim Tabakman starring Zohar Strauss, Ran Danker, Tinkerbell, Tzahi Grad, Isaac Sharry, Avi Grainik and Eva Zrihen-Attali. You might not necessarily assume that an Isreali film about forbidden gay love in the ultra-orthodox Jewish community of Jerusalem would be full of meat gags. And yet, as Aaron and Ezri wrestle with an almost insurmountably large, phallic hunk of beef, and Aaron’s suspicious wife tries to both intimidate and punish with the size of her meat order, the otherwise tense, restrained and dangerous subtext becomes, for a moment, funny.