We look forward to meeting you online July 6-15.
We offer a wide range of feature films and documentaries, from animation and family titles to romantic comedies and science fiction / horror.
See our 2021 Virtual Film Market line-up and other titles at www.summerhillfilms.com
To make an appointment to meet during VCFM click here.
Best wishes.
Ted Chalmers
President
Summer Hill Entertainment / TomCat Films LLC
10645 Tatum Ro...
Film Mode Entertainment Celebrate 5th Anniversary as a Robust, Multifaceted, Innovative Industry Leader with Staying Power
Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment celebrates five successful years as a worldwide sales agent, producing entity and distribution liaison, emerging from challenging times more robust than ever in the place where it all began, Cannes.
Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment (FME), which launched in Cannes in 2016, has made major waves through...
Participant, the leading media company dedicated to entertainment that inspires audiences to engage in positive social action, and leading French sales agent mk2 Films, have teamed up to jointly represent worldwide distribution rights to Rahul Jain’s powerful documentary feature film Invisible Demons, premiering in Official Selection at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival’s Cinema for the Climate special section. Rising filmmaker, Jain (Machines), who is making his Cannes debut returns to ...
THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE
CREATED BY NIKOLAJ ARCEL & ANDERS THOMAS JENSEN
FROM THE BESTSELLING BOOK BY DOUGLAS PRESTON & MARIO SPEZI
STUDIOCANAL today announce they are set to make THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE based on The New York Times bestseller THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE: A TRUE STORY by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi.
Academy Award Nominee Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory) is set to star in STUDIOCANAL’s limited series as Mar...
CINEMA SABAYA
by Orit Fouks Rotem
2021 / Israël, Belgium / Hebrew, Arabic
Nine women, Arab and Jewish, take part in a video workshop hosted by Rona, a young film director, who teaches them how to document their lives. With each raw homemade footage shot by the women and shared with the others, the group dynamic forces them to challenge their views and beliefs as they get to know each other and themselves better.
The film is produced in Israël by Maya Fischer, Gal Greenspan a...
Justin Chu Cary and Charlie Weber Join Dustin Hoffman, Candice Bergen, Simon Helberg and Dianna Agron in Mayim Bialik’s As Sick As They Made Us
Screen Media Acquires International Rights
Film Mode Launches Sales at Cannes
Screen Media Ventures, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment company, Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment (FME), producer Anne Clements (Stage Mother, Quinceañera) and Yale Productions ...
Still featuring Jonathan Rhys Meyers (photo credit Janins Pipars).
Writers: Stephan Rick, Ross Partridge
Director: Stephan Rick (The Dark Side of the Moon) ** he also directed the original version of this German thriller
Producers: Dean Altit (Misfits) and Yulia Zayceva (WarHunt)
Synopsis: When the dead girl’s sister shows up to investigate, David, overcome with guilt, wonders if he can find redemption while Robert is determined to bury the past and keep his...
A Fantasy Adventure Film from The Jim Henson Company and
Story Bridge Films in partnership with Sky and Stan
ARCLIGHT FILMS HANDLING INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS
SKY TO RELEASE IN UK & IRELAND, GERMANY, ITALY
MADMAN AND STAN TO RELEASE IN AUSTRALIA
Multi-Golden Globe nominee Sam Neill (Columbia’s Peter Rabbit, Universal’s Jurassic Park franchise) joins two-time Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained, MGM’s No Time to Die) and Patrick G...
Enjoy Cannes the N°1 film event in the World which we have been covering since 1995, becoming the N°1 online trade publication for the Cannes Market and Festival: over 600 articles during the last edition !
Read this online CATCH UP WITH PREVIOUS MARKET NEWSLETTERS 1 I 2 I 3 I 4 I Cannes Newsletter 1 CANNES MARCHE DU FILM 2019 Coverage
EMAIL US IF YOU NE...
Take a look at the Marché du Film 2021 program highlights below
with all the details about the conferences, pitches, workshops & other events!
Discover the Full Program
Upcoming events
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While France is slowly but surely coming back to life with cinemas, restaurants, shops opening and the curfew lifted, we may hope to witness a beautiful homecoming in Cannes, even more knowing that the Alpes-Maritimes district has now the lowest COVID-19 infection rate in France !
Here is our guide to all measures in France, locally in Cannes, and more specifically at the festival. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
First stop… France !
As of June 9...
From Clarke Peterson, producer of RAMPART and the Oscar winning MONSTER, come this timely and poignant masterpiece. When the last factory in a small Rust Belt town closes its doors, an unlikely hero emerges in dutiful, quiet Allery Parkes (Peter Gerety, HBO’s “The Wire”). A career employee of the factory, the aging Allery can’t reconcile how to live a life simply sitting at home doing nothing, and against the advice and pleas of his loving wife, Iola (two-tim...
Highland Film Group is handling international sales on the film this week at virtual Cannes market. Key info about the title below:
GASOLINE ALLEY
Status: Principal photography wrapped in different locations across the US
Genre: action/crime/thriller
Cast: Golden Globe winner Bruce Willis (Universal Pictures’ Glass, Twentieth Century Fox’s Die Hard franchise), Luke Wilson (Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums, MGM’s Legally Blonde),&n...
Summer Hill Films LLC, a U.S. distributor and international sales and licensing company, has announced the DVD and VOD release of an award-winning beautiful drama, ‘Stay.’ ‘Stay’ tells the tale of a man who gets a second shot at life from someone he least expected.
After losing his job, a recovering addict, in Tokyo, struggles to survive and meets a free-spirited woman who changes his world but cannot stay in his life.
‘Stay’ is written ...
Screen Media Acquires International Rights
Film Mode Launches Sales at Cannes
Screen Media Ventures, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment company, Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment (FME), producer Anne Clements (Stage Mother, Quinceañera) and Yale Productions are pleased to announce that Justin Chu Cary (Netflix series BLACK SUMMER, starring alongside Jamie King, which recently had its second season premiere, BLINDSPOTTING...
101 FILMS INTERNATIONAL BOARD SALES ON UNTITLED HORROR MOVIE –
ONE OF THE FIRST FEATURE FILMS OPTIMISING NFT
101 Films International, a member of the Amcomri Media Group, has taken worldwide distribution rights (excluding North America, UK, Australia, and New Zealand) for Untitled Horror Movie, launching sales this week at the pre-Cannes screenings.
Untitled Horror Movie (87’), directed by Nick Simon (Truth or ...
HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN!
The light at the end of the Tunnel is shining bright on us and I hope you are all standing in it.
2...
Join us at our online pavilion and learn more about how Safe & Easy it is to film in Dominican Republic! Committed to promoting co-production and business opportunities, we invite you to join in on the exclusive occasion to see 10 live pitches of Dominican projects!
Producers looking to attract co-producers, future collaborators, investors, and sales agents will join this pitching session to showcase their projects and answer questions.
July 7 @ 9:...
Myriad Pictures is pleased to announce the acquisition of the international rights to the western thriller DEAD FOR A DOLLAR, which is set to star Academy Award Winner Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, Spectre, No Time to Die) and Academy Award Nominee Willem Dafoe (At Eternity’s Gate, The Florida Project, Spider-Man).
Walter Hill (The Driver, 48 hrs, Last Man Standing, The Warriors, Broken Trail, Deadwood, The Long Riders) ...
French-Belgian co-production TITANE & Swedish-Belgian-Croatian-German co-production CLARA SOLA
European Film Promotion is delighted that it will be able to welcome the PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE from the 2021 and 2020 digital selections to Cannes in person - with five of them having a film at the festival.
A total of 14 producers are expected to be attending from this year’s programme, including the French producer Jean-Christophe Reymond, who will present his current film Titane ...
Still: WYRMWOOD APOCALYPSE Barry (Jay Gallagher) + Brooke (Bianca Bradey) + Rhys (Luke McKenzie)
Arclight Films is set to handle worldwide distribution rights for the completed post-apocalyptic-thriller feature film Wyrmwood: Apocalypse, announced today company Chairman Gary Hamilton. The film stars Jake Ryan (Warner Bros.’ The Great Gatsby), Luke McKenzie (BBC Films’ Perfect Sense), Bianca Bradey (RLJ Entertainment’s The Osiris Child, starring opposite Kellan Lutz), Ja...
Highland Film Group handling international sales at Cannes virtual market this week.
Photo credit Ezra Olson.
SUPERCELL
Status: Just wrapped principal photography in Montana and Georgia (US)
Genre: Adventure, Disaster
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Skeet Ulrich, Anne Heche, Daniel Diemer, Jordan Kristine Seamón
Writers: Herbert James Winterstern, Anna Elizabeth James (Deadly Illusions).
Director: Herbert James Winterstern (NBC's "Siberia")...
Join our Speed Meetings sessions!
See you from 6-15 July in Cannes
From July 7 to 13, join a series of Speed Meetings to take your networking game to the next level!
Set up now one-to-one meetings with other professionals, based on your preferences and current projects, thanks to our partner b.square.
Onsite speed meetings will take place in the brand new Speed Meetings Area, located on level -1 of the Palais des Festivals.
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We're pleased to announce the third edition of Meet the Streamers, our program dedicated to streaming platforms, strategy and innovation.
The growing program will notably welcome ViacomCBS’ Paramount+ and Discovery’s discovery+ for two major keynotes!
Meet the Streamers is thrilled to host ViacomCBS’ Paramount+ as its exclusive guest following the service’s March 2021 launch.
Participants will be able t...
Bruno Chatelin, filmfestivals.com co founder, spoke with the Market Director Jérôme Paillard to run through its different new features. With the Online Pre-Cannes Screenings starting June 21 for 5 days of screenings for buyers and festivals only. And new features during the Marché July 6 to 15
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