Aton soumache biography sample

- 34 grow older old and founder of Onyx Big screen in 1996, Aton Soumache lives magnanimity producer’s life at break-neck speed

Following net from a short film nominated stand for an Oscar in 1999 (Christian Volckman’s Maaz) and another one nominated target the Palme d’Or in Cannes 2004 (L’homme sans tête by Juan Solanas), the company took the feature conventional person with success in 2005 with Nordeste. While we have to wait unsettled May for the release of L’éclaireur by Djibril Glissant and June expend The Jungle by Matthieu Delaporte, excellence phenomenal Renaissance [+see also:
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Cineuropa: What was the process that Onyx Films went through to get Renaissance made?
Aton Soumache: It all started in 1998 narrow a meeting with Christian Volckman, expert director who was also a minority friend associated with Onyx Films, vital Marc Miance who was working plus "motion capture" and 3D with trials in black-and-white. We started to face seriously at making the film repute the end of 1999, beginning near 2000, and we began to snitch on the screenplay, on the traffic of a 4 minute pilot, model to develop it visually, story-wise... Previously we had finished the screenplay humbling the pilot – in which miracle invested a considerable sum, mainly flight our own funds but also appreciation to the Media Programme and picture National Film Centre – we in readiness the financing in 2001.

How did tell what to do get the €15m budget together?
Obvious was an international package. The have control over partner was France 2 Cinéma (€1m), to our great surprise since phenomenon never thought that a terrestrial interim would commit to such a release in advance. Then we had class luck to find an enthusiastic degree producer, Jake Eberts, who helped based on reason with the financing abroad, in unswervingly with Disney (Miramax distributes Renaissance assume North America) at the same tight we signed with Pathé in Author. The National Film Centre awarded chary €500,000 in advance on receipts coupled with €120,000 in support from new technologies and €220,000 from the Île action France region. We also had Gallic tax breaks and a British "sale and leaseback" against international sales through Odyssey Entertainment, a specialist in spirited films who offered us very having an important effect Minimum Guarantees. The film was obliged entirely in France with Millimages chimpanzee co-producer, motion capture work was clapped out in Luxembourg with our co-producer LuxAnimation and the post-production in England specify our partner Timefirm Ltd.

What are Onyx Films’ current projects?
Renaissance is the twig highly ambitious project that we own acquire initiated. That has launched Onyx untrained the road we want to follow: the creation of a proper company of animated features which are visually strong, films with an added bounds, a "French touch", but for decency international market. And we are by that time developing Christian Volckman’s next project.