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The co-founders of Fortitude International, Nadine de Barros, Daniel Wagner and Robert Ogden Barnum, tell Jeremy Kay about their plans for year twoOne year after their first public outing as business partners, Fortitude In stanley cup ternationals trio of co-founders arrive in Berlin on track for phase two.Nadine de Barros, Daniel Wagner and Robert Ogden Barnum have achieved a lot in their first 12 months on the circuit.James Ponsoldt sales titl stanley uk e The End Of The Tour starring Jason Segel as David Foster Wallace recently premiered in Sundance and was acquired by A24, while the balance stanley cup of the initial slate 鈥?Daughter Of God, Urge and The Runner 鈥?are all in post-production.Now the plan is to nurture in-house productions. To that effect, Fortitude aims to line up six to seven projects in 2015, including submarine thriller Dive from Ariel Vromen, the in-demand director of The Iceman. We dont feel like a company. We feel like film-makers, says de Barros, the former Voltage Pictures and Aldamisa International senior executive with experience in film and TV, who spearheads sales. Were not corporate. Were not bureaucratic. You deal with me, Rob and Daniel. Were honest and transparent. Barnum and Wagner are producer-financiers. The former, also a partner with Cassian Elwes at finance and packaging firm e2b Capital, who has produced Margin Call, Hateship Loveship and Shelter among others, has served in a senior capacity at Annapurna Pictures and Benaroya Pictures and is highly adept at structuring Mxwt UK s G2 Pictures strikes multi-film deal with IM Global
Selections include Amigorenas Another Silence [pictured], Liorets All Our Desires, and Lou Yes Love And Bruises.A number of French films and French co-productions have been selected for this years Venice Days, the independent sidebar held during the upcoming Venice Film Festival.The 12-film line up includes three fully French productions and five co-productions amidst an overtly European line up 鈥?but thanks to the co productions, 11 territories are represented including far-flung locations such as Palestine and Brazil. The section also offe stanley cup rs several female-oriented narratives or women-directed works as well as works of a political orientation that focus on Cuba and Israel.Upping interest in the French offer is the fact that most of the countrys top sales agents including Celluloid Dreams, Wild Bunch, Le Pacte and Films Distribution are behind the films showcased this edition. Additionally, should all the protagonists appear 鈥?the selection promises a hearty dose of art-film star power including Canadas Marie-Jos茅e Croze, Frances Vanessa Paradis, Philippe Torreton and Tahar Rahim; Italys Stefano Accorsi, stanley cup Filippo Timi Valeria Mast stanley mug andrea and Valeria Solarino; Chinas Zhao Tao and emerging French actor Vincent Rottiers 鈥?the latter made a strong impression on organisers.French films include Santiago Amigorenas Another Silence [pictured] from Celluloid Dreams 鈥?a revenge drama set in Canada which travels to Argentina and Bolivia; Guilty Presume Coupable about the French child s