After serving as a minority partner to Spain’s Lastor Media on the Toronto-winning Spanish pic “They Will Be Dust,” established Swiss banner Alina Film is majority-producing with Lastor the period road movie “The Indies,” (“Les Indes”) which will be sneak-peeked as a work in progress at ECAM Forum co-production market in Madrid, running June 9-11.
Switzerland’s Sister Distribution has just snapped up the rights to the pic, co-written and directed by first-time feature filmmakers Pauline Julier and Nicolas Chapoulier.
A Swiss-French multi-hyphenate artist and filmmaker, Julier has gained international recognition with her art installations and documentaries such as “Way Beyond” and “Follow the Water,” showcased at festivals and art centres including Visions du Réel, Thessaloniki and The Centre George Pompidou in Paris.
Director, visual artist and author Chapoulier for his part has a background in theatre and currently serves as artistic director to the company Les 3 points de suspension.
“Sister Distribution is a regular backer of Julier’s works,” said David Epiney, “The Indies” producer and Alina Film co-founder alongside Eugenia Mumenthaler. Themselves passionate about film as an art and singular filmmakers voices, such as the acclaimed Milagros Mumenthaler (“The Currents,” “The Idea of a Lake”) and Elena Lopez Riera (“The Water”), the production duo immediately fell in love with the project when Julier and Chapoulier first reached out to them.
