Daniel Auteuil and ‘Emilia Perez’ Collaborator Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux Set Up Next Features With Les Films Velvet (EXCLUSIVE)

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Ben Croll Actor-director Daniel Auteuil and key “Emilia Perez” collaborator Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux have set up their next features with Les Films Velvet, the auteur-focused production outfit behind this year’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris opener “The Musicians” as well as Rebecca Zlotowski’s upcoming, Jodie Foster-led thriller “Vie Privée.” After last year’s Cannes-launched legal thriller “An Ordinary Case,” Auteuil will step back behind the camera for the World War II drama “Une Nuit” (“One Night”).

Co-written by Auteuil and filmmaker Camille Lugan (“The Book of Joy”), the film follows the incredible true story of a 1942 effort to rescue more then one hundred Jewish children from a deportation camp just outside of Lyon.

Les Films Velvet’s Frederic Jouve will produce alongside Adrien Nussenbaum. An in-demand assistant director who has worked closely with Jacques Audiard, Zlotowski and Nadav Lapid, Pouilloux most recently led second unit on “Emilia Perez” before directing the Canal Plus series “Iris.” The filmmaker will make his feature debut with “Merci Maman” (“Thanks Mom”), an irreverent comedy, written by Pouilloux, about a mother who drags her son to couple’s therapy.

The project is currently casting, with production slated for later this year. Velvet is also gearing up to shoot comedian Charlotte Gabris’ directorial debut “Au Frais.” Co-produced with Marine Alaric of Orta Films, the comic feature follows a 38-year-old woman dumped by her boyfriend and then sent by her worried family to freeze her eggs in Barcelona.