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Paris-based Mediawan Rights has taken international rights to the animated documentary feature “Flavors of Iraq” from director Léonard Cohen.
“Flavors of Iraq” is a co-production between France’s animation-focused Miyu Productions and documentary-specialized Nova Production (Marie Linton’s “Prison life: Justice in Japan”). Culture channel Arte France is also on board as co-producer.
“Our wish is to accompany projects that are pushing the boundaries of this genre, offering new and creative storytelling ways as well as redefining what a documentary can be,” head of documentary sales Arianna Castoldi at Mediawan Rights told Variety.
In 2019 the distribution branch of Mediawan, one of Europe’s most prosperous independent production-distribution groups, launched a feature documentary catalogue “as this market is currently booming and bolder projects are being developed in this form, less codified than the TV documentaries format,” said Castoldi.
“Flavors of Iraq” flawlessly fits with this aim of melding documentary and animation...
“Flavors of Iraq” is a co-production between France’s animation-focused Miyu Productions and documentary-specialized Nova Production (Marie Linton’s “Prison life: Justice in Japan”). Culture channel Arte France is also on board as co-producer.
“Our wish is to accompany projects that are pushing the boundaries of this genre, offering new and creative storytelling ways as well as redefining what a documentary can be,” head of documentary sales Arianna Castoldi at Mediawan Rights told Variety.
In 2019 the distribution branch of Mediawan, one of Europe’s most prosperous independent production-distribution groups, launched a feature documentary catalogue “as this market is currently booming and bolder projects are being developed in this form, less codified than the TV documentaries format,” said Castoldi.
“Flavors of Iraq” flawlessly fits with this aim of melding documentary and animation...
- 7/12/2021
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
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Culture channel Arte France is set to co-produce Léonard Cohen‘s debut animated feature “Flavors of Iraq,” a project presented at this week’s Cartoon Movie and produced by France’s Nova Production and Miyu Productions.
A documentary, ”Flavors of Iraq” “is the memory of a child, that of an apricot ice cream. A memory that allows the author, Feurat Alani, a French journalist of Iraqi origin, to paint the overwhelming simplicity of daily life, struck by the events of history,” said Arte France commissioning editor Rachel Adoul, explaining that the story will take in through “the sensitive family story” of Feurat Alani and his father “the great story of Iraq over the past 50 years.”
Taking place in Iraqi capital Baghdad and neighboring city Fallujah, Alani’s story was first told via 10,000-plus tweets which were later fashioned by Alani into a book that won the prestigious Albert Londres Prize...
A documentary, ”Flavors of Iraq” “is the memory of a child, that of an apricot ice cream. A memory that allows the author, Feurat Alani, a French journalist of Iraqi origin, to paint the overwhelming simplicity of daily life, struck by the events of history,” said Arte France commissioning editor Rachel Adoul, explaining that the story will take in through “the sensitive family story” of Feurat Alani and his father “the great story of Iraq over the past 50 years.”
Taking place in Iraqi capital Baghdad and neighboring city Fallujah, Alani’s story was first told via 10,000-plus tweets which were later fashioned by Alani into a book that won the prestigious Albert Londres Prize...
- 3/12/2021
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
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