Sacrebleu CEO Ron Dyens Talks Producing Style & Slate As New Film ‘Sirocco And The Kingdom Of Air Streams’ Opens Annecy: “I Have An Arborescent Way Of Thinking”
deadline.comRon Dyens, the founding CEO of Paris-based company Sacrebleu Productions, has built a reputation as one of Europe’s most original and prolific producers of independent animated features over the course of nearly 25 years.
His company is out in force at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival this year. Its new animated feature Sirocco And The Kingdom Of Air Streams opened the festival on Sunday evening (June 11) and is among 11 animated features in the running for its Cristal prize.
The company is also present in the short film competition with 1942-set Maurice’s Bar by Israeli filmmakers Tzor Edery & Tom Prezman about the memories of a former drag queen around one of Paris’s first queer bars.
Outside the film program, Sacrebleu will participate in the Works in Progress section with Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow. The Latvian director’s second feature after breakout debut Away, it revolves around a loner cat forced to share a small boat with a group of other animals after a terrible flood.
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