Paris-based mk2 films, which is in Venice with three films including Robert Guédiguian’s competition entry “Gloria Mundi,” is bowing sales on a raft of prestige documentaries, not…
films, which is in Venice with three films including Robert Guédiguian’s competition entry “Gloria Mundi,” is bowing sales on a raft of prestige documentaries, notably Jia Zhang-ke’s “So Close to My Land” and Jacques Loeuille’s “Birds of America.”and the Chinese auteur, whose latest film, “Ash Is Purest White,” competed at Cannes in 2018. Jia also competed at Cannes with “Mountains May Depart” in 2015 and “A Touch of Sin,” which won the best screenplay award in 2013.
“So Close to My Land” reunites Jia with his longtime cinematographer, Yu Lik-Wai . The movie is produced by Zhao Tao, along with Jia’s XStream Pictures, Huayi Brothers Media, Shanxi Film Group and Huaxia Film Group. Loeuille’s “Birds of America” unfolds along the banks of the Mississippi and traces now-extinct birds that were painted by renowned 19th century artist John James Audubon. The birds depicted in the paintings started disappearing with the dawn of the industrial era, and “so did the original American dream,” said mk2.
“Birds of America” was produced by Météores Films and is set for delivery in 2020. International sales are being handled by mk2 films, which will unveil the first images from “Birds of America” as well as images from Gero von Boehm’s previously announced “Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful” at Toronto.
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