Variety has selected its 10 Producers to Watch for 2018, a diverse mix of producers from the U.S.
and the thriving international film scene.
Variety Producers to Watch, which was originally launched at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998, returned to the Croisette last year and will once again be presented there this year.Regardless of their home base, these producers all share a fierce commitment to storytelling.
Their films have played festivals including Berlin, Sundance and Venice, and a number are screening at Cannes.Producer Dina Emam’s her first narrative feature, “Yomeddine,” was selected for competition.
It will vie alongside Russian-made “Leto,” a music filled biopic that Murad Osmann and Ilya Stewart produced for director Kirill Serebrennikov, now under house arrest in that country.Variety has also selected the forces behind “I, Tonya,” an Oscar winner for Allison Janney (Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara), and Rachel Song, who brought two
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