‘The Summer With Carmen,’ Venice-Premiering Queer Comedy, Sells to the U.S., U.K. (EXCLUSIVE)
Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent “The Summer With Carmen,” Zacharias Mavroeidis’ queer comedy, has been acquired in major territories since world premiering at the Venice Film Festival.
The movie, which is represented by Be For Films and had its North American premiere at AFI, recently won three prizes at the Thessaloniki Film Festival.
It will be released next year by Cinobo in Greece, Epicentre in France and Xenix Filmdistribution in Switzerland. Be For Films has now sold it to the U.S. (Dekkoo), Germany/Austria (Salzgeber), U.K./Ireland (Peccadillo Pictures) and Brazil (Imovision).
The company’s boss, Pamela Leu, said negotiations are ongoing in some other territories. “The Summer With Carmen” takes place at a queer beach in Athens, where 30-something Demosthenes offers to help his friend and aspiring filmmaker Nikitas in drafting an idea for his feature debut, inspired by the events surrounding a dog named Carmen.
