The world has misplaced Hengameh Panahi, the French-Iranian producer and gross sales agent who began Celluloid Goals and performed a vital function in introducing works by auteurs resembling Todd Haynes, Jacques Audiard, Marjane Satrapi, François Ozon, and Jafar Panahi (no relation). Her age was 67.
After working with Panahi for a few years, Viviana Andriani, a press attaché, reported on Thursday that Panahi handed away on November fifth following a protracted sickness.
Launched by Panahi in 1985, Celluloid Goals was a ground-breaking manufacturing and gross sales agency that contributed to the event of the worldwide arthouse cinema market.
Celluloid, a Paris-based firm, packaged and distributed over 800 movies over the course of three many years, together with a number of notable movies such because the debuts of François Ozon (See The Sea), Gaspar Noé (I Stand Alone), Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis), and Bruno Dumont (The Lifetime of Jesus).
Born in Iran and immigrated to Europe on the age of twelve, Panahi was among the many first gross sales representatives to recognise the potential of Asian arthouse administrators on a world scale.
Panahi mixed his love of movies with a artistic finance and manufacturing type. Serving as an government producer on movies, she helped set up new worldwide improvement and co-financing fashions and aimed to unite the impartial marketplaces of the US and Europe.
Even when she has lowered her output lately, Panahi continues to be a mainstay on the worldwide pageant circuit and represents sure movies from a few of her favorite administrators.
