Production company profile

Movie Partners in Motion Film, founded in summer 2007, is a French film production company aiming to produce the work of veteran independent filmmakers as well as to discover emerging directors. MPM Film makes its festival debut with Romanian director Adrian Sitaru's first feature film Hooked (Pescuit Sportiv) selected for the Venice Biennale 2008 in the Venice Days section, the Toronto International Film Festival in the Discovery section, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival where it won the Silver Alexander and the best actress prize for both actresses, Maria Dinulescu and Ioana Florin and the Palm Spring Film Festival where it won the New Voices/New Visions Award. It also won Best Actress prize at the BAFICI in Buenos Aires. It was sold to about ten different territories and was released in France and Switzerland on February 09.

MPM Film is also currently shooting the new film of veteran Hungarian director Béla Tarr The Turin Horse. It is also in development on the next feature films of Adrian Sitaru, with young Palestinian director Ihab Jadallah, and young Brazilian director Julia Murat.

The principals of MPM Film, based in Paris, are Marie-Pierre Macia and Juliette Lepoutre.

After earning a degree in Classics and French Literature, Marie-Pierre Macia started her career at the Cinémathèque Francaise. Later she researched film preservation at the Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, U.C.L.A. and the Pacific Film Archive in the US and curated international films for the San Francisco International Film Festival. Macia is the former Director of the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (Directors' Fortnight) of the Cannes Film Festival, where she discovered and presented the debut films of such now-famous filmmakers as Mexican director Carlos Reygadas with Japon, Sofia Coppola with Virgin Suicides and the Romanian Directors Cristi Puiu and Cristian Mungiu with respectively Marfa Si Banii and Occident.

Most recently, she worked as personal adviser to Cristian Mungiu on his last film, 4 months 3 weeks 2 days, which won the Palme d'Or in Cannes 2007. Marie-Pierre Macia has served as jury member in many international festivals such as Rotterdam film festival, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Cluj in Romania and Mar del Plata, Argentina.

Juliette Lepoutre comes to film production after a series of key management positions in the high tech business. She has worked for over fifteen years with Silicon Valley companies, where she specialized in developing international markets. Based in California, her territories included Europe, Japan, Pacific Rim, and Latin America. She has fluency in both the language and cultural practices of those dominant markets. As a film lover and insider, she has been present on the film-festival circuit for more than a decade.

Born in 1974 in England, Lucas Rosant now lives and works in Paris. After graduating from a Business School he has been soon involved in short film production and sales with the New York University (NYU - Tisch School of the Art). He then worked for the organisation and programming of different International Film Festivals, as among others La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (Directors' Fortnight, Cannes), Marrakech International Film Festival (Morocco), Premiers Plans d'Angers (France), Paris Cinema International Film Festival… He also has, for the past 5 years, been heading Paris Project, the co-production and development platform of Paris Cinema IFF. In parallel, he has been consulting or matchmaking for many years for different co-production forums and festival markets as Crossroads - Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Greece), Industry Office - Dubai International Film Festival (UAE), Open Doors - Locarno International Film Festival (Switzerland), Producers Network - Cannes Film Market (France), Produire au Sud - 3 Continents Film Festival (Nantes, France). He recently got appointed Business coordinator for the upcoming HAF (Hong Kong Film Financing Forum). Lucas Rosant joined the MPM Film team in 2008 as Producer on different projects, along with Marie-Pierre Macia and Juliette Lepoutre.

With deep roots and extensive expertise in both the aesthetic and market elements of film production and distribution, MPM Film aims to provide filmmakers with seasoned and inspired representation across a range of activities and territories.