Paris-based Mediawan Rights has taken international rights to the animated documentary feature “Flavors of Iraq” from director Léonard Cohen. “Flavors of Iraq” is a co-production between France’s …
In 2019 the distribution branch of Mediawan, one of Europe’s most prosperous independent production-distribution groups, launched a feature documentary catalogue “as this market is currently booming and bolder projects are being developed in this form, less codified than the TV documentaries format,” said Castoldi.
“Flavors of Iraq” flawlessly fits with this aim of melding documentary and animation to tell the story of Iraq through the eyes of author Feurat Alani as a child. Alani is a French journalist of Iraqi origin who, after tweets of his life story went viral, wrote a book which won the prestigious Albert Londres Prize for French journalism in 2019.“We are delighted to collaborate with a strong and experienced player like Mediawan.
“Flavors of Iraq” is scheduled for delivery in 2023 marking the 20th anniversary of the outbreak of the Iraqi war.
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