Devesa, Funato launch Alpha Crimson

PARIS -- Virginie Devesa and Keiko Funato have launched Alpha Crimson, a Paris-based sales company that underscores the cosmopolitan achieve in the Gallic sector. One early Alpha Crimson acquisition, "Off White-colored Lies," from Israel's Maya Kenig, carried out competing the other day in the users hand Springs Festival and screens in Berlinale's Generation sidebar. Backed by France's Chamber of Commerce, Alpha Crimson aims to make use of new talent from emerging national cinemas, making worldwide sales on movies that reflect the burgeoning breadth of arthouse production. Alpha's range reflects its founders' abilities: Both labored at Hengameh Panahi's Celluloid Dreams before joining U Media. Funato then labored for Japanese distributor Uplink while Devesa offered becoming an audiovisual attache within the French Embassy in Moscow. Arthouse comedy "Lies" is positioned within the outbreak in the second Lebanon war and follows a parent or gaurdian and daughter showing up as refugees to snag accommodation getting a wealthy Jerusalem family. Alpha Violet's two other buys tackle social issues more directly. "Journey to Portugal," from Portuguese docu filmmaker Sergio Trefaut, starring Maria p Madeiros, denounces prejudice and European airport terminal terminal border control techniques. Russian helmer Alexander Vartanov's "Bullet Collector" can be a low-budget, b&w coming-of-age tale that captures the violence of edgy Moscow youth. Kenig, Trefaut and Vartanov are first-time fiction company company directors. "You need to partner with filmmakers utilizing their roots and concentrate on quality, daring films with issues you want to discuss," Devesa told Variety. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com