EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning filmmaker Fatih Akin has signed with Sentient Entertainment for management across all areas.The German-Turkish creative is perhaps best known for his thriller In the Fade, which claimed the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film in 2017 and brought star Diane Kruger the Cannes Film Festival’s award for Best Actress.
The film was selected to compete there for the Palme D’Or and was Germany’s official entry for the Academy Awards.Akin is currently in production on his next film, Rheingold, based on the real-life story of Turkish gangster rapper Xatar.
He also recently acquired the rights to Buddha, the graphic novel from acclaimed Japanese illustrator Osamu Tezuka, and will adapt it as a TV series, which Sentient
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