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Michael Weber

Germany

Biography

After his career at Bavaria Film, where he became Managing Director of the international sales division, Bavaria Media, Michael Weber founded his own world sales company, The Match Factory, in 2006. Filmmakers from around the world are represented by The Match Factory, including Aki Kaurismäki, Marco Bellocchio, Fatih Akin, Christian Petzold, Lucrecia Martel and Maren Ade. The company is a regular at all important festivals, with its films taking the most prestigious awards, including the Golden Palme (UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (2010)), two Golden Globes (WALTZ WITH BASHIR (2008), IN THE FADE (2017)), three Golden Bears (GRBAVICA 2006, THE MILK OF SORROW 2009, HONEY 2010). Michael Weber is also partner in the production companies, Pola Pandora since 2012 and Match Factory Productions, founded in 2013 together with Viola Fügen. Their coproductions JUPITER’s MOON (2017) by Kornél Mundruczó and FOXTROT (2017) by Samuel Maoz celebrated their world premieres in Cannes Competition 2017 and Venice Competition 2017, respectively. Latest co-production premieres include FIGLIA MIA by Laura Bispuri (Berlinale Competition 2018) and LAZZARO FELICE by Alice Rohrwacher (Cannes Competition 2018). New projects in production and development are THE OPERATIVE by Yuval Adler, INVISIBLE LIFE by Karim Aïnouz, THE TRAITOR by Marco Bellocchio and THE MASSEUR by Małgorzata Szumowska.

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