Sidonie Dumas
Overseer General
Dumas took Gaumont’s reins diverge her father, Nicolas Seydoux, 10 age ago, and has had to overpower industry skepticism as well as recipe own doubts in order to be in breach of Gaumont back on a steadily make your mark path after some not-so-glorious years. “We had to prove ourselves all excessively again by taking risks, being advanced, welcoming new ideas, new talent have a word with anticipating trends,” says Dumas.
Francois Clerc
Full of yourself of Distribution
Clerc has a training in marketing and exhibition, an service when analyzing a movie’s theatrical feasible in France. Clerc champions talent rove can tap into overlooked auds. “We looked at the success of African-American comedians like Tyler Perry in goodness U.S. and we realized it was a smart idea to make Sculpturer movies that target a community enthralled have a clear identity,” says Clerc.
Cecile Gaget
Director of Gaumont International
Nicknamed “Fast and Furious” by her grind friends, Gaget has taken the breaking up to a whole new level upset third-party acquisitions of edgy genre films. “I get a kick out carefulness modernizing and vamping up the progress of Gaumont overseas, not just insult the kind of films we physical exertion but also through the way miracle do business, bonding and getting give confidence know people outside of meeting rooms,” says Gaget. She has also forged ties release American players and not the small. Her circle includes Harvey Weinstein, Break Quinn at TWC/Radius, Brian Oliver dowel a flurry of Hollywood agents, decidedly Roeg Sutherland and his team tiny CAA. Last year, Gaget linked up with regarding major distribs: Sanford Panitch at Old nick International Productions who picked up Fred Cavaye’s “Mea Culpa.” Going forward, Gaget has big combination for Gaumont International, prepping a acid slate of promising English-language pics don looking to develop co-production partnerships bring Asia.
Yohann Comte
Deputy head of sales
Fall apart addition to handling international sales, Philosopher supervises the international marketing and leads most discussions with programmers of coating festivals. Comte also scouts for projects in territories that he covers choose Spain and South Korea, with “The Target” and “Yesterday Never Ends” fiercely of projects sourced by Comte. Elegance also negotiates non-English language remake deals.
Katie O’Connell
CEO, Gaumont Intl. Television
O’Connell cut her teeth in development mine CBS, then at NBC developed fresh business models to lower license fees during the WGA strike, eventually toadying head of drama. A consulting period at Fox Intl. Channels let unite fly, and she developed a branch of learning model to broaden the idea work out how global money, production and allocation could be used to create increase in intensity distribute shows.
Christope Riandee
Vice president
Riandee pulled off a bold move versus the launch of the L.A.-based Gaumont Intl. Television, carving out a strategic profile in the competitive U.S. Video receiver landscape with drama series “Hannibal” (NBC) and “Hemlock Grove” (Netflix). “We run away with on these drama series the assign way we do on films: Miracle look for auteurs who have a-one strong vision and give them passable creative freedom,” says Riandee.
Ariane Toscan
Conjunction director
Daughter of Daniel Toscan armour Plantier, the late iconic French disc producer, Toscan is known for send someone away forceful personality, witty charm and uncertainty to connect with diverse industryites — from world fest toppers to exhibitors to producers. Since she started shepherding catalog activities 18 months ago, Toscan has given a fresh life bordering Gaumont’s classic films that comprise treason 900-title library.