Juliette Lepoutre
Francia
Produttore
Development Participant 2010
Bio
Movie Partners in Motion Film, founded in summer 2007, is a French film production company aiming to produce the work of veteran independent filmmakers as well as to discover emerging directors.
MPM Film makes its festival debut with Romanian director Adrian Sitaru’s first feature film Hooked (Pescuit Sportiv) selected for the Venice Biennale 2008 in the Venice Days section, the Toronto International Film Festival in the Discovery section, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival where itwon the Silver Alexander and the best actress prize for both actresses, Maria Dinulescu and Ioana Florin and the Palm Spring Film Festival where it won the New Voices/New Visions Award. It also won Best Actress prize at the BAFICI in Buenos Aires. It was sold to about ten different territories and was released in France and Switzerland on February 09.
MPM Film is also currently shooting the new film of veteran Hungarian director Béla Tarr The Turin Horse. It is also in development on the next feature films of Adrian Sitaru, with young Palestinian director Ihab Jadallah, and young Brazilian director Julia Murat.
The principals of MPM Film, based in Paris, are Marie-Pierre Macia and Juliette Lepoutre.
Juliette Lepoutre comes to film production after a series of key management positions in the high tech business. She has worked for over fifteen years with Silicon Valley companies, where she specialized in developing international markets. Based in California, her territories included Europe, Japan, Pacific Rim, and Latin America. She has fluency in both the language and cultural practices of those dominant markets.
As a film lover and insider, she has been present on the film-festival circuit for more than a decade.
