About Vivi Film
Founded in 1990 by Viviane Vanfleteren, Vivi Film is an independent film production company.Several short fiction films have been made and in 1995, the short film of Jean-Marc Vervoort, Mrs. Foucault's Pendulum came out on the white screens. The film participated in over sixty festivals around the world, received twenty-one prizes, is distributed in Germany, France, Belgium, Canada, Korea and Mexico and was sold 15 times to broadcasters all over the world. Vivi Film is known in the Belgian film industry and builds out a network of international contacts.
In the mean time, the production was extended to documentaries. Howling for God, a 64 minutes documentary by Dan Alexe won the FIPRESCI prize in the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in 1998 as well as the Grand Prix in Clermont- Ferrand and Paris. Polders, A marriage between Earth, Water and Sky, a 26 minutes documentary by Claudio Serughetti, was selected among other selections in the international competition in the festival “Cinéma du Réel” in Paris.
During that period, projects for feature films have also been integrated into the company. Our aim is to work together with the writers and directors and maintain open and creative relationships with them. Hide-and-Seek by Gerrit Messiaen and Robert Visser, is a ‘low budget’ film and the first long fiction feature film by Vivi Film that appeared on the Flemish screens. The film won the Grand Prix during the Film Festival “Terra di Siena” in Italy.
Vivi Film worked together with Les Armateurs on the first animated feature film Les Triplettes de Belleville (The Triplets of Belleville) by Sylvain Chomet. The world premiere took place during the International Film Festival Cannes 2003 where the film was selected in the Official Selection out of competition. The film won 14 prizes in different festivals all over the world and was nominated for the best non English language film for the BAFTA awards, won the César for Best Song, was nominated for the César for Best First Film and Best Film and got 2 nominations for the Oscars® in the category Best Animated Feature and Best Song. The Film is sold all over the world for theatrical release.
For the moment, Vivi Film is working on several feature projects: Brendan and the Secret of Kells, a 75 minutes animation film by Tomm Moore (in coproduction with Cartoon Saloon and Les Armateurs) and Le Berceau de l’enfant pisseur, a 90 and 52 minutes documentary by Ann Lévie-Morelle (in coproduction with 7ïa productions and Crescendo Films). We are developping Quixote’s Island, a 90 minutes feature film by Didier Volckaert, Evolutionman or How I did(n’t) eat my father, a 75 minutes animation film (in coproduction with Les Armateurs, Boréales and Pathé), Sambora, a 90 minutes animation film by Vincent Lavacherie and Pierre Penneman (in coproduction with Walking The Dog and YC Aligator), and 2 animated series Pat & Stan, 39 x 7 minutes by Pyer Coffin and Etienne Pêcheux (in coproduction with Mac Guff Ligne, TF1 and TVLoonland) and Ponpon, 52 x 3,5 minutes by Fabien Drouet, (in coproduction with JPL Films and Les Armateurs).
We are aiming international co-productions to create in this manner an international platform.
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