18/04/2008

Isabelle Dubar, founder of ID Distribution, has bounced back after her company’s termination of activity at the end of 2007 and has been named Head of Acquisitions at the distribution company CTV International.

Along with overseeing theatrical releases at CTV, she will create a label devoted to the promotion of quality independent film, aiming to distribute between six and eight features per year.

Dubar’s (see interview) recent successes at ID include Any Way the Wind Blows by Belgian director Tom Barman, Private [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Italian director Saverio Costanzo, and Manifesto and The Sky Turns [+see also:
film review
interview: Isabelle Dubar
interview: Mercedes Alvares
film profile] by Spanish directors Joaquin Oristell and Mercedes Alvares, respectively.

Other successful titles include numerous French productions and co-productions such as Laurent de Bartillat’s The Vanishing Point [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], Gaël Morel’s Three Dancing Slaves [+see also:
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film profile], Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s Through the Forest, Paz Encina’s Paraguayan Hammock and Julia Loktev’s Day Night Day Night.

CTV International’s line-up includes I Served the King of England [+see also:
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film profile] by Czech director Jirí Menzel, a film that was lauded in competition at Berlin in 2007 and won the Fipresci Prize (see Special Report). The title is set to be released on May 7.

So far this year, the distribution company has launched, among others, Jean-Pierre Limosin’s Young Yakuza (on release since April 9) and Dominik Graf’s German feature The Red Cockatoo.

European films released by the distributor in recent years include Jens Lien’s Norway of Life, David Oelhoffen’s In Your Wake [+see also:
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trailer
film profile], Michael Winterbottom’s The Road to Guantanamo [+see also:
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film profile] and Hungarian titles District by Aron Gauder and Pleasant Days [+see also:
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film profile] by Kornél Mundruczó.

(Translated from French)