‘Call Me By Your Name’ Producers Launch Paradise City with Edward Berger, Lili Horvat, Anthony Chen Projects (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comElsa Keslassy International Correspondent“Call Me By Your Name” producers Emilie Georges and Naima Abed are launching Paradise City, a London- and Paris-based film, TV drama and branded content production and management company.
The banner’s slate includes projects by Edward Berger (“Deutschland 83”), Lili Horvát (“White God”), Anthony Chen (“Ilo Ilo”) and South African author Lauren Beukes (“Slipping”).Georges is the founder and CEO of sales banner Memento Intl., which is at Cannes this year with Tarik Saleh’s competition film “Boy from Heaven,” Dominik Moll’s “La nuit du 12” in Cannes Premieres, Charlotte Le Bon’s “Falcon Lake” in Directors’ Fortnight and Kristoffer Borgli’s “Sick of Myself” in Un Certain Regard.
Abed, who is based in the U.K., produced “Call Me By Your Name” with Georges under their other production banner La Cinefacture and has been building Paradise City’s roster for over a year.
So far, the outfit has over 12 projects in development at different stages. Berger is developing a project on the Kindertransport (German for “children’s transport”), the rescue mission orchestrated by the British government during WWII to rescue over 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi-controlled territory during the nine months prior to the outbreak of war.
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