French-UK production and sales outfit The Bureau has acquired French documentary production company Folamour.
The Bureau has acquired 100% of the shares of the company, in a deal confirmed by The Bureau group’s chief operating officer, Vincent Gadelle.
Folamour will operate as a subsidiary of The Bureau group, and continue to produce under the Folamour brand.
Folamour’s founding producer, Marie Genin, has retired from production. The rest of the team will remain and continue to work with The Bureau.
Paris-based Folamour was founded by Genin in 2001. It has produced over 40 titles in the ‘Once Upon A Time’ series, which examines what films have to say about the era in which they were shot, including I, Daniel Blake, Shoplifters and Loveless, in partnership with Franco-German broadcaster Arte.
Folamour has also produced documentary portraits of writer Anaïs Nin, designer Agnès B and artist Sophie Calle.
Gadelle said: “The acquisition forms part of The Bureau’s strategic plan to produce significant documentaries for TV and streaming platforms, while pursuing a very selective and successful slate of theatrical documentaries.”
Genin said:“I am delighted that Bertrand Faivre and Vincent Gadelle are now leading Folamour. They will find the good winds and the right direction.”
The Bureau was founded by Faivre in 2000. Its feature credits include After Love and True Things. Its expanding documentary slate features the Cesar-winning The Velvet Queen from Marie Amiguet and Vincent Munier, Yves Hinant, and Jean Libon’s So Help Me God and David Dufresne’s The Monopoly Of Violence.
Upcoming documentaries include Jean Libon and Yves Hinant’s For A Fistful Of Fries and Yannick Kergoat’s Tax Me If You Can.
The Bureau is in production with James Ivory and Giles Gardner’s A Cooler Climate and Rubika Shah’s Mad Dog Of Europe.
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