When David Kaplan, the New York-based producer of Beth de Araújo’s Sundance prizewinning “Josephine,” arrived at the fireside chat hosted by European Film Market on Sunday afternoon, he sounded like he’d been working across different time zones, which, by all accounts, he has.
The U.S. deal for “Josephine” to Sumerian Pictures closed late last night in Berlin, which made the timing for the on-stage discussion moderated by Variety quite fitting.
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After securing a double prize win at Sundance, the movie was finally sold by WME Independent and CAA Media Finance to upstart U.S. distributor Sumerian in a ‘mid-to-high seven figures,”
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