Former mk2 movies acquisition and gross sales brokers Olivier Barbier and Ola Byszuk are becoming a member of forces with ex-Orange Studio exec Lenny Porte to create worldwide gross sales firm Fortunate Quantity.
The trio, who’ve labored on lots of of auteur titles between them, together with Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, Celine Sciamma’s Portrait of a Woman on Hearth and Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist to call however just a few – are at present constructing their slate for an early 2025 market launch.
Their intention is to deal with 10 French and worldwide auteur movies a 12 months, break up roughly between two to a few animated options, and 7 to eight fiction movies and docs, together with work by new voices.
The trio wish to provide a boutique service, which additionally includes financing and distribution methods from the earliest phases of growth, to make sure most impression on worldwide markets.
“In an business that has grow to be more and more complicated each when it comes to manufacturing and distribution, Fortunate Quantity needs to put the notion of service on the coronary heart of its exercise, aiming to strengthen help for abilities, producers and distributors,” they mentioned in assertion saying the creation of the corporate.
Spurred by the worldwide growth of the animation sector, the Fortunate Quantity co-founders have ambitions to grow to be a serious participant within the animation house.
To this finish, they’ve established a strategic partnership with Moon-Keys Worldwide Content material. The corporate specializing within the financing and distribution of animation works, was based by former Mikros Animation MD Boris Herzog in 2023. This tie-up will carry two to a few mainstream and auteur animated encompasses a 12 months.
Moon Keys-Worldwide Content material can be one of many shareholders within the firm, with the the backing of Film One, a fund devoted to financing and distributing animated characteristic movies.
Fortunate Quantity has additionally signed partnerships with Metanoïa, a digital advertising and marketing company led by Thomas Creveuil, which is able to design revolutionary campaigns for the Fortunate Quantity gross sales titles.
The corporate can be becoming a member of forces with sister post-production firms, IIW, specialised in VFZ, and Studio LUX, which presents modifying, dailies administration, grading and mastering providers.
The trio says these partnerships will reinforce the vary of providers they’ll suggest to producers and worldwide distributors.
Byszuk was SVP Worldwide Gross sales with mk2 Movies from 2014 to 2021, throughout which period she labored on award-winning titles akin to Pawel Pawlikowski’s Chilly Warfare, Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Woman on Hearth and Tom Vol’s Maria By Callas.
She joined French manufacturing firm Nord-Ouest Movies as a producer with a give attention to scouting new abilities. She’s going to retain her connections with Nord-Ouest Movies concurrently constructing Fortunate Quantity.
Barbier started his profession in worldwide gross sales at Wild Bunch (now Goodfellas) in 2011, engaged on auteur movies akin to Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake, Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum, and Hirokazu Koreeda’s The Shoplifters.
He joined mk2 movies in 2018 within the acquisitions division and rose to go of acquisitions and growth two years later. Throughout his time at mk2 movies, he labored on movies akin to Portrait of a Woman on Hearth, Joachim Trier’s The Worst Individual In The World and Justine Triet’s Anatomy of A Fall.
Porte started his profession at Orange Studio in 2007, the place he participated within the co-production of greater than 150 movies and the creation of a listing of greater than 1000 movies.
In 2013, he helped spearhead the creation of the TV and SVOD France gross sales division, within the place of deputy gross sales director. In 2016, he joined the Orange Studio acquisition committee, after which, in 2018, he was concerned within the creation of Orange Studio’s worldwide gross sales division.
Throughout his time at Orange, he labored on titles akin to Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist, Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuktu, Florian Zeller’s The Father, Mark Osbourne’s The Little Prince and Olivier Assayas’ Sils Maria.
