From Auteur Docs to Immersive Innovation, Luxembourg Makes Big Impact
variety.comBen Croll With six Luxembourgish projects on display, this year’s Venice Film Festival served as a victory lap for a modest state with an outsized impact.
Boasting 1,200 professionals, a vibrant animation sector, and an output of 25-30 titles per year, the Grand Duchy’s co-production driven ecosystem is all the more remarkable for its relative youth and for the speed of its ascent. “Thirty-five years ago we had no professional infrastructure and no real audiovisual production,” says Luxembourg Film Fund chief Guy Daleiden. “We had to build everything from the ground up, developing an autonomous sector with production companies and technicians that are now highly regarded across the globe.” In the subsequent decades, local daughter Vicky Krieps has given the country its biggest star and “Mr.
Hublot” directors Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares brought homegrown projects to the Oscar podium, together tracking a wider blueprint to develop the live action and animation sectors in tandem.
Today, animation accounts for 40% of local activity with live action work rounding out the rest – all while non-fiction outfits continue to make waves.
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