Consultants & experts

Léa Fehner grew up among tent-theatre professionals and studied film at La Fémis in the scriptwriting department. Her first film Silent Voice (Qu’un seul tienne et les autres suivront) is a huge success in many festivals, including the Venice Mostra and the Deauville American Film Festival. It won the Louis Delluc Award for Best First Feature in 2009 and was nominated for the Césars. Her second feature, Les Ogres was awarded at the 2016 Rotterdam Festival. She is currently working on her third feature and is collaborating on the scripts of several first features.

Laure Parleani holds a Master’s Degree in Business Law and a Master’s Degree in Audiovisual Law. She started out as Business Affairs with Les Films Pelléas then as Investment Officer and production manager at Palatine Etoile Ciné Nominé before joining Les Films du Losange as Sales Executive. She is a part of the 5050×2020 collective. In 2018 she co-founded Paris-based international sales and production company Totem Films together with Bérénice Vincent and Agathe Valentin. Totem seeks out talents that question our world through sensorial emotion and stories that inspire and thrill audiences across multiple platforms (e.g. And Then We Danced by Levan Akin | Directors’ Fortnight 2019, Ceniza Negra by Sofía Quirós Ubeda | Semaine de la Critique 2019, Luxor by Zeina Durra | World Competition Sundance 2020, Gagarine by Fanny Liatard & Jérémie Trouilh | Cannes Label 2020).

In fall 2015, Hédi Zardi launched with Fiorella Moretti their Paris based company Luxbox, dedicated to international sales and co-production of selected projects. With a complementary industry knowledge built on experience in production, distribution, acquisitions, sales and festival programming they start with a solid film catalogue and a passionate pool of world cinema directors. The company launched at the Berlin EFM 2016, Inhebbek Hedi by Mohammed Ben Attia, Best First Feature Film and Silver Bear for Best Actor and in Cannes, Mimosas by Oliver Laxe, 2016 La Semaine de la Critique’s Grand Prize. The company was present with two titles at the Cannes 2020 selection, Spring Blossom by Suzanne Lindon and In the Dusk by Sharunas Bartas. In parallel to its World Sales activity, Luxbox has started to coproduce several projects, including Nuestro Tiempo by Carlos Reygadas which premiered at Venice International Film Festival. The next coproduction projects are Selene 66 Questions  by multi-awarded Greek director Jacqueline Lentzou (2018 Next Step project)  and Barchini by Italian artist Yuri Ancanari.