IT'S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD 
COLD WAR 
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE 
Rosalie Varda, a seasoned French film producer who is the daughter of late New Wave filmmaking icons Agnes Varda and Jacques Demy, has been appointed senior advisor at MK2 Films. MK2 Films is part of the arthouse production, sales and exhibition group headed by Nathanael and Elisha Karmitz which had five movies in competition at Cannes last year and in 2018. Under this newly-created position, Varda will be advising Nathanael Karmitz at MK2 Films on the acquisition and distribution strategy,...
mk2 Films
Nathanaël
Karmitz
Chairman / CEO
As head of Paris-based arthouse exhibitor and prodco MK2, Karmitz felt the pain from the pandemic with its theater chain, which saw a decrease in admissions from 2019 that hit 36% in October 2020. But Karmitz – who has run the company since taking over for his father Martin in 2005 – made the best of the situation, setting up an online market for its film sales and closing a deal with Netflix to stream 50 films from its library by filmmakers including Charlie Chaplin, David Lynch and François Truffaut. Karmitz also announced big plans for 2021, including a large-scale retrospective of the works of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami at Paris’ Pompidou Center in April and a 100th worldwide re-release of Chaplin’s directorial debut “The Kid.”
