Acclaimed French producer Catherine Dussart has a full production slate including new works from veterans Amos Gitai, Rithy Panh and Peter Greenaway. Dussart is currently at the Venice Film Festiva…
where Indian filmmaker Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s “Once Upon a Time in Calcutta,” co-produced by her Catherine Dussart Productions, is playing in the Horizons strand. Dussart is also on board Sengupta’s next, “Birthmark,” about two women who become part of a catastrophic plan hatched by a patriarchal family, which is at the Venice gap financing market.
Dussart and Gitai are also preparing “Dona Gracia,” the story of Gracia Mendes Nasi, a Portuguese Jewish woman in 1500s Renaissance Europe, who developed an escape network that saved hundreds of Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism from the Inquisition.
Greenaway’s “Walking to Paris,” on which Dussart is a co-producer, will be complete by November. The film retraces the sculptor Constantin Brâncusi’s walks from Bucharest to Paris in 1903 and 1904, before he became one of the most lauded artists of the 20th century. Philosophically, Dussart does not differentiate between working with seasoned veterans and emerging talents. “They all have the same way of making cinema – all of them have high artistic potential and ambitions and all are disruptive and politically strong,” says Dussart. “It’s not intimate cinema, it’s always cinema related to the state of the world. I always like directors with a strong personality and a strong artistic identity.
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