‘The Father’ Director Florian Zeller Launches Blue Morning Pictures With Mediawan & Former CAA Agent Federica Sainte-Rose
deadline.comOscar winner Florian Zeller (The Father), fresh off Venice Film Festival drama The Son, is launching production firm Blue Morning Pictures with backing from European studio Mediawan (Call My Agent).Zeller will oversee the company out of Paris and LA with former CAA agent Federica Sainte-Rose.
As part of the deal, Mediawan will finance and produce the slate of film and TV projects with Blue Morning Pictures.After a career as a playwright, Zeller adapted and directed his first film, The Father, based on his play of the same name, starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman.
The film received six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, with Zeller co-winning Best Adapted Screenplay.Sainte-Rose previously served as an agent in CAA’s Media Finance department, where she was involved in the packaging and sales of films including Christos Nikou’s Fingernails, Ninja Thyberg’s Pleasure, Audrey Diwan’s Happening, and Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s The Platform.
She also worked on Zeller’s debut The Father and his follow up The Son, starring Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern and Vanessa Kirby, which premiered to strong notices in Venice earlier this week.“I am thrilled to embark on this new adventure with my longtime colleague Federica, whose taste and distinct sensibility I’ve always admired.
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