Elle Driver unveils first sales slate
Company launched at Rendez-Vous
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Launching the outfit last month at the Unifrance Paris Rendez-Vous, Elle Driver partners Eva Diederix and Adeline Fontan Tessaur said that they would buy international rights to innovative, classy film of all types and budgets.
Action is now replacing words.
The company’s first ever slate features Brazil’s “Estomago — A Gastronomic Tale,” a revenge tale of food, power and sex that was the biggest prize winner at last fall’s Rio Intl. Film Fest.
Higher-bracketed in budget, Fred Cavaye’s sentimental thriller “Anything for Her” weighs in at $13 million.
Among new pics is “4 Nights with Anna,” charting the amour fou of a crematory worker. Pic is from multi-prized vet Polish helmer, Jerzy Skolimowski, who took a Cannes special jury kudos for “The Shout.”
Produced by Serbia’s Zillion Fims, “St. George Shoots the Dragon” has a Serbian director, Srdjan Dragojevic (“Pretty Village, Pretty Flame”).
Set on the Serbian front during World War I, it turns on a love triangle between a policeman, his wife and a war invalid.
“35 Rhums” comes from one of only two French directors on Elle Driver’s out-of-the gates slate, Claire Denis (“Trouble Every Day,” “Good Work,” “Friday Night”).
In advanced post-production, and set to be distributed in France by Diaphana, the family relationship drama toplines Gregoire Colin (“Sex Is Comedy”) as a widower, cared for by his daughter, who becomes a “step-wife” for him.
To access titles, Diederix and Fontan Tessaur can draw on experience and contacts — Diederix worked for UGC Intl., before that Spain’s Sogepaq, Fontan Tessaur for TF1 Intl. — and financial muscle.
Elle Driver is backed by an investment fund, which allows it to put up minimum guarantees on titles.
“When you’re starting, you have to offer minimum guarantees,” said Fontan Tessaur.
Its long-term challenge, she added, is “to grow with a new generation of directors and producers.”
Expect Diederix and Fontan Tessaur to be scouring for talent at a festival near you some time soon.
