MK2, a family-owned French film company boasting a prominent arthouse cinema chain in Paris and in Spain, is staging various events to turn the spotlight on classics from Charles Chaplin to Claude Chabrol and Abbas Kiarostami which are part of its impressive library of 600 movies.MK2's CEO Nathanael Karmitz has been invited by Thierry Fremaux, the chief of Cannes Film Festival and the ongoing Lumiere Festival in Lyon, to deliver a masterclass on Tuesday as a special guest of this...
mk2 Films
Nathanaël
Karmitz
Chairman / CEO
Karmitz sold off MK2’s Canadian theatrical distribution division, MK2 Mile End, which has its own streaming service, to Montreal-based producer-distributor Sphere in April. The next month, he traveled to the Cannes Film Festival, where MK2 had six films world premiering: Léonor Serraille’s family drama “Mother and Son,” Serge Bozon’s musical comedy “Don Juan,” Marie Kreutzer’s “Corsage,” Davy Chou’s “All the People I’ll Never Be,” Emmanuelle Nicot debut “Love According to Dalva” and Clément Cogitore’s “Sons of Ramses.” While there, he closed a deal to acquire the French and international rights to documentary and narrative features by Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck from Velvet Film, adding to an 800-film MK2 library that already included collections from Charlie Chaplin, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Demy and Agnès Varda, among others.