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Alpha Violet Co-Head Virginie Devesa Talks Decade Of Launching Talents Including Christos Nikou, Fernanda Valadez & Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi – Venice Q & A

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Alpha Violet founding co-heads Virginie Devesa and Keiko Funato are in Venice this year with Indonesian filmmaker Makbul Mubarak’s first film Autobiography, which plays in Horizons ahead of trips to TIFF and London BFI  among other festivals.The coming-of-age drama, exploring the legacy of Indonesia’s 30-year military dictatorship, revolves around a young boy working as a housekeeper in the empty mansion of a retired general.The pair, who fete the 10th anniversary of their Paris-based sales boutique Alpha Violet this October, have a strong record of launching debut features on the Lido having previously handled Japanese filmmaker Kei Ishikawa’s 2016 feature Gukoroku, Traces Of Sin and Greek directors Christos Nikou’s 2020 breakout Apples, which both played in Horizons.Neither title won the top prize, but both works put the directors on the international festival and industry map.

Ishikawa is back in Horizons this year with his third film A Man, while Nikou is currently gearing-up for the shoot of his English-language debut Fingernails, starring Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed, for Apple Original Films.Prize winners in Alpha Violet’s carefully curated library of some 60 titles include Here And There by Spanish U.S.-based filmmaker Antonio Mendez Esparza and Ukrainian director Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi’s The Tribe, which won the Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prix in 2012 and 2014 respectively.The company has also found success on the North American festival circuit, with Mexican director Fernanda Valadez’s Identifying Features, which won Sundance’s Audience Award and Best Screenplay in the World Cinema Dramatic line-up in 2020, and Sundance 2022 Grand Jury Prize winner Utama by Alejandro Loayza Grisi.Like Nikou, Slaboshpytskyi is

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