SAN SEBASTIAN — Rouge International co-founder Nadia Turincev, whose credits included the Oscar-nominated “The Insult,” “Raw” and “Mimosas,” has teamed with Omar El Kadi, head of acquisitions and…
, whose credits included the Oscar-nominated “The Insult,” “Raw” and “Mimosas,” has teamed with Omar El Kadi, head of acquisitions and sales, EMEA, at Lebanon’s MC Distribution, to launch Easy Riders Films, a new Paris-based production company.
“Perros,” for example, is directed by Cannes Cinéfondation Résidence 2019 winner Vinko Tomičić, is also produced by Chile’s Jirafa Films, behind Christopher Murray’s “The Blind Christ” and Alicia Scherson’s “Il Futuro,” and Mexico’s Zafiro Cinema, founded in 2018 by Gabriela Maire and Machete Producciones, which backed Cannes Camera d’Or winner “Leap Year,” Diego Quemada-Díez’s “La Jaula de Oro” and Juan Andrés Arango’s “V500.
To be directed by talent-to-track Lebanese brothers Michel and Gaby Zarazir, who caught attention with their ALBA graduation short “Under the Robes,” and produced by Lebanon’s Madame Le Tapis and Easy Riders Films, “The Fifteen” is “a comedy about female empowerment, women in the clergy,” said Turincev. It is set in 1941 Lebanon, and centers on the redoubtable Matile, a mother of 11 children who rents out rooms of her sprawling house to bishops, in Beirut for business.
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