'Wave' of buyers for documentary
Japanese, Brazilian, French firms take all rights
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Docu celebrates the 50th anni of the French New Wave, highlighting cult French filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut. Docu screened in this year's Cannes Classics section.
Another Wide Management docu, Christian Poveda's "La Vida Loca," a chronicle of the violent Salvadorian gang Mara 18, was nabbed by Italy's Fandango. A theatrical release is sked for early 2010. The doc was well received at fests, including San Sebastian, where it bowed last year. Poveda, who was a photojournalist and a documentarian, was shot dead in El Salvador in September.
Wide Management's latest acquisition, "The Belgrade Phantom," is a docudrama based on the 1979 true story of a Serbian thief, Vlada Vasiljevic, who became a local hero after defying the authorities by driving a stolen white Porsche while Tito was visiting Cuba. Film is helmed by Jovan B. Todorovic and produced by Serbian shingle Emote Prods.
