“France is producing more and more ambitious content,” he notes. By Jordan Hoffman JanuCourtesy of Sundance Institute Anyone worried that the virtual. CODA SUNDANCE SERIESstudio on the TV series “The Department,” the English-language remake of the French spy series “The Bureau.” CODA Is Sundance 2021s First Big Sale at 25 Million Apple spends big on indie crowdpleaser. and Spain in terms of coming up with strong drama concepts for remakes,” says Federation Entertainment’s Pascal Breton.īut the climate is changing, says Breton, who is about to attach a U.S. is a tougher market because there are thousands of projects around, and France has been behind Israel, Scandinavia, the U.K. Other times, a French producer tries to be involved in the remake and fails to find willing U.S. producer, and the development doesn’t go anywhere. Usually, a sales agent or producer sells the remake option to a U.S. CODA SUNDANCE MOVIEPathé’s financial backing of “CODA” was crucial, as it allowed producers to make the movie without a U.S. January 2021 At the all-virtual 2021 Sundance Film Festival, Apple entered a bidding war and paid a Sundance-record 25 million for the rights to CODA, a remake of a 2014 French film called La. Philippe Rousselet’s Vendôme Group, whose credits include “Source Code,” joined forces with deep-pocketed French studio Pathé and former Lionsgate boss Patrick Wachsberger to assemble the project. CODA, Sian Heder’s story of a young woman torn between pursuing her dreams and being a lifeline for her deaf family and the outside world, isn’t just a Sundance movie: it’s arguably the Sundance. The film was celebrated at Sundance as an authentic American story with mass appeal, even though it didn’t feature major stars or a well-known director and was made by French producers - albeit not just any French producer. CODA is Directed By: Sian Heder and Stars: Emil. CODA, named for the acronym Children of Deaf Adults, is a movie about a hearing teenager who works with her deaf parents and brother in their fishing business, but harbors aspirations of studying. Writer-director Siân Heder’s coming-of-age drama about a girl who is the only hearing person in her deaf family. A girl born able to hear in a Deaf family, finds herself torn between her family and her passion of singing. “CODA” - about a hearing girl who struggles to break away from her deaf family - was an eye-opening exception. CODA was the right film to start this year’s virtual Sundance Film Festival. Anton Capital exec Cecile Gaget notes that it’s “useless to sell remake rights to a studio because it will stay on a shelf.”
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