Bac Motion pictures has scooped up Hélène Merlin’s characteristic debut “Cassandre,” with the Gallic outfit set to release world gross sales at subsequent week’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris.
Set in a rural idyll right through the summer time of 1998, the coming-of-age drama casts emerging big name Billie Blain (“The Animal Kingdom”) reverse display stalwart Zabou Breitman (“The New Glance”), following a teen woman as she forges a brand new sense of self post-puberty.
“Within the circle of relatives’s small manor, her folks and older brother understand that her frame has modified,” reads the outline. “Thankfully, Cassandre is hooked in to horses, and he or she joins a small using middle for the vacations, the place she’s embraced as an abnormal however endearing personality. Right here, she discovers a unique more or less commonplace, one who progressively frees her from the circle of relatives dynamic that threatens to engulf her…”
“We’re overjoyed to have taken on Hélène Merlin’s debut,” says Bac Motion pictures’ Vincent Llobell. “We had been captivated through the script proper from the beginning, and seeing the completed product most effective showed our instinct. Running on a primary movie is at all times each a problem and a privilege – and this wager paid off. Given the effects, we are hoping to expand robust bonds with this filmmaker.”
This newest acquisition kicks off a duration of extra forceful job for the gross sales outfit, which have been that specialize in 4 to 5 acquisitions a yr for the reason that pandemic. Going ahead, Bac Motion pictures now targets to just about double the ones numbers; they’ll release two titles at subsequent month’s EFM in Berlin whilst having a look to procure two extra, and can attend Cannes with a equivalent remit.
“The corporate’s acquisition technique is moving from a extra compact way to a extra competitive one,” says Llobell, noting that Bac Motion pictures is above all having a look to procure first or 2nd options and to lend a hand nascent auteurs ruin into the arthouse marketplace.
“The target within the subsequent couple of years is to have seven to 8 titles a yr, all whilst sticking to our credo of finding new French and world arthouse auteurs,” Llobell provides. “So we’re in search of a large number of initiatives, and particularly those who show off new skills – in point of fact, so much like Hélène Merlin.”
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