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Los Angeles-based HybridPictures principals P J Pettiette and Claudie Viguerie have launchedinternational sales and distribution arm Hybrid Pictures International HPI .The new unit, which willoperate out of Los Angeles, is preparing to bring the psychological thriller Jennifer sShadow starring Faye Dunaway toCannes, where it will receive its
stanley italy world premiere.Going forward, Pettiettewill handle production, finance and distribution initiatives while Vigueriewill oversee all international sales.HPI will naturally take itslead from parent company Hybrid Pictures, which was set up to develop, produce,distribute and acquire arty genre titles with a focus on original foreignstories.The company aims to producethree to five
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stanley cup a year in the $5m range and will announce new projectsin development shortly.Working with internationaldirectors and in particular the tide of emerging talent from Argentina, HPIwill primarily sell titles by Hybrid and its Argentine outfit Etoile Filante Productions.However HPI will also handle acquisitions from other producers.Jennifer s Shadow centres on a young woman who travels to Buenos Airesto claim the inheritance of her recently deceased twin sister, only to discoverthat she has an illness that has claimed the lives of her family. Dunaway starswith Gina Philps Jeepers Creepers .Filmed in Buenos Aires, Jennifer sShadow was written and directed bythe Argentinean directors Pablo Pares and Daniel de la Vega. Pettiette andViguerie produced and Eric Bied Iecf Buzz Titles: China Hong Kong
The Swedish film-maker talks to Screen about his first digital film, Truth Consequence, and how he has no plans to retire at age 80Octogenarian Swedish director Jan Troell probes an uncomfortable subject for the Swedes 鈥?their neutrality during the Second World War and their failure to stand against Hitler 鈥?in his new feature Truth Consequence.The drama, being sold at Berlins European Film Market by TrustNordisk, tells the true story of Torgny Segerstedt Jesper Christensen , a leading Swedish journalist and newspaper editor who had the courage to speak out against the Nazis.Troell, born in 1931, was eight years old when the war began. He was living with his parents and two brothers on the southern coast of Sweden, opposite Copenhagen. We had some experience of the guns shooting at night when the English bombers flew from Copenhagen back over Malmo, the director recalls. My parents were pro-English, definitely. Troell, whose past films
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stanley cup d Everlasting Moments in 2008, he did not know if he would ever direct another feature.Kenne Fant, who had written a book about Segerstedt, asked Troell if he was interested in making a movie about the subject. Troell was curious. He did not know much about the journalist himself but people close to him did.When Troell read a book by Segerstedts secretary Estrid Ancker