Linking to Paris-based Nadia Turincev (“Raw,” “Mimosas”) and her producer partner Omar El Kadi to develop and produce two new Swiss films, Geneva-based Akka Films is also ramping up TV production, …
Headed by Nicolas Wadimoff and Philippe Coeytaux, Akka is readying with Turincev and El Kadi “O Jacaré,” the third feature from Swiss-Portuguese filmmaker Basil Da Cunha whose debut, “After the Night” played the Cannes Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight in 2013. Its follow-up, “O film do mundo,” screened in main competition at Locarno in 2019.
Akka Films will hit Series Mania with mini-series “Off Season” which world premieres in French Competition.Produced by Coeytaux who is co-producing with Gaumont TV, RTS and France Télévisions, the increasingly involved crime thriller is set at an end-of-season Valais ski resort. Marina Hands stars as a local police inspector on the trail of serial killer who is severely compromised when her only son accidentally kills a seasonal worker.
Akka is also driving ever deeper into documentary production, appointing U.K.-born and Mexico-bred filmmaker Juliana Fajul to oversee its doc department.at their new outdoor Easy Riders in 2019.Founded by Wadimoff in 2003, Akka has produced both doc and narrative features, often in international co-production.
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