Leontine Petit
Рождение : 1963-12-31,
История
Leontine Petit is founder and CEO/Producer of Lemming Film, with offices in Amsterdam and Berlin. Since 1995, Lemming Film has successfully co-produced 54 feature films and 14 high end drama series in Europe and beyond. Their projects are sold to many countries around the world and have won various national and international awards.
Before working in film production, Leontine studied at the University of Amsterdam where she earned her Master's degree in Philosophy. She graduated from EAVE and is a member of the ACE Network. She was named "Producer on the Move" by European Film Promotion (2006). In 2014 she participated at EAVE+. She first participated in the Inside Pictures workshop in 2017. Today she teaches at various media programs and until 2020 she was also the President of 'Bridging the Dragon', an association that is connecting European and Chinese filmmakers.
Leontine is a passionate advocate of helping independent films cross boundaries and connect with international audiences. She won the prestigious Eurimages Co-production Award during the European Film Awards in 2016.
Amongst others, her most recent (co-)productions include PLEASURE by Ninja Thyberg (Sweden, 2020), DO NOT HESITATE by Shariff Korver (Netherlands, 2020), HOME by Franka Potente (Germany, 2020), DEAD AND BEAUTIFUL by David Verbeek (Netherlands, 2020), BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ by Burhan Qurbani (Germany, 2020), THE HEIRS OF THE NIGHT by Diederik van Rooijen (drama series, Netherlands, 2020), MONOS by Alejandro Landes (Colombia, 2019), FENIX by Shariff Korver (drama series, Netherlands, 2018), ZAMA by Lucrecia Martel (Argentina, 2017), MY GIRAFFE by Barbara Bredero (Netherlands, 2017) and THE LOBSTER by Yorgos Lanthimos (Greece, 2015).
Producer
On a remote Indonesian island, during the waning days of the colonial era, Dutch sugar plantation owner Jan and his wife Agathe, are at the top of the food chain. That is, until Jan upon returning from his nightly visit to his native concubine Siti, suddenly drops dead in front of his wife. Desperate to keep the privileges of her status quo, Agathe forces her estranged son Cornelis and his heavily pregnant wife Josefien, to travel from Europe and take over the family business. In the midst of a worker’s uprising, Cornelis displays his plans for progressive change. But when Jan’s will puts Siti at the forefront of the family estate, ideals prove to be idle and blood thicker than water.
Producer
Documentary about an ICRC delegate Albert teaching members of the South Sudan army about the rules of war in the Geneva Conventions. The film highlights the challenges of these kinds of conversations from both sides.
Producer
Они молоды, богаты, красивы и избалованны. С наступлением ночи они становятся вампирами, это круто меняет жизнь молодых людей.
Co-Producer
19-летняя Линнея решает покинуть родной шведский городок и переехать в Лос-Анджелес. Там она намеревается сменить имя и стать порно-звездой. Но ее путь к успеху оказывается не таким, как она предполагала.
Co-Producer
Накануне съёмок дебютного фильма измученный молодой режиссёр изо всех сил пытается найти баланс между вымыслом и реальностью, лихорадочно гоняясь за ускользающим вдохновением.
Producer
In a juvenile delinquent center two girls find comfort in love for each other. Once one of them gets released, they don't know how to deal with this and both seek for a solution, with tragic consequences - A contemporary love story based on the motives of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Producer
Голландский фотограф делает снимок девочки с воздушным змеем на улице ночного Тайбэя. Вернувшись на родину, каждый раз смотря на это фото, мужчина невольно вспоминает о своем детстве, всё глубже погружаясь в одиночество.
Producer
A young photographer moves back in with his mother and has to adjust to his old hometown. Things get more challenging when she appoints him as her dating coach in order to spend more time together.
Producer
У маленького мальчика Паттерсона есть большой друг — жираф раф. Они рождаются в один день, живут по соседству и неразлучны. Наступает день, когда они должны пойти в школу. Они оба очень взволнованы и переживают друг за друга. В свой первый школьный день Паттерсон набивает свой рюкзак множеством лакомств, чтобы удовлетворить большой аппетит Рафа. Когда Паттерсон понимает, что Раф не собирается присоединиться к нему в школе, он очень грустит. Постепенно Паттерсон втягивается в учебу и даже заводит нового друга-тебя. Раф, однако, чувствует себя брошенным в зоопарке. Именно тогда Паттерсон придумывает блестящий план, чтобы привести своего домашнего жирафа в школу и наслаждаться компанией своих двух лучших друзей!
Co-Producer
У маленького мальчика Паттерсона есть большой друг — жираф раф. Они рождаются в один день, живут по соседству и неразлучны. Наступает день, когда они должны пойти в школу. Они оба очень взволнованы и переживают друг за друга. В свой первый школьный день Паттерсон набивает свой рюкзак множеством лакомств, чтобы удовлетворить большой аппетит Рафа. Когда Паттерсон понимает, что Раф не собирается присоединиться к нему в школе, он очень грустит. Постепенно Паттерсон втягивается в учебу и даже заводит нового друга-тебя. Раф, однако, чувствует себя брошенным в зоопарке. Именно тогда Паттерсон придумывает блестящий план, чтобы привести своего домашнего жирафа в школу и наслаждаться компанией своих двух лучших друзей!
Producer
Сэм приходит в себя посреди переполненного метро. Но проблема в том, что он не помнит, кто он и откуда. Сэм пытается понять, что с ним произошло, используя содержимое своего рюкзака. Медленно, но верно он понимает, что его жизнь в большой опасности.
Co-Producer
История любви, которая разворачивается в ближайшем будущем, где одиноких людей арестовывают и отправляют в жуткий отель. Там они обязаны найти себе пару за 45 дней. Если им это не удается, то их превращают в животных и отпускают в лес.
Producer
Blood, Sweat and Tears is a story about the life of Andre Hazes, a Dutch popular singer. It shows three crucial phases in the life of Hazes: his youth (in the 1960s), his breakthrough (1980s) and the last year of his life (early 2000s).
Producer
In this smart and incisive thriller, a Dutch cop of Moroccan heritage goes undercover in a Moroccan drug ring and finds there a feeling of belonging he never experienced in "normal" society.
Co-Producer
После потери зрения Ингрид почти не покидает квартиру. Она еще не забыла облик окружающего мира, но образы, бывшие когда-то столь ясными, теперь заменяются мрачными видениями. Ингрид подозревает, что муж обманывает ее, говоря, что ходит на работу. Остается ли Мортен в квартире? Тихо передвигаясь, он рассматривает ее? Или, прикидываясь, что пишет электронное письмо коллеге, болтает с любовницей? Старый приятель Мортена по работе Эйнар большой любитель кино и музыки. Но вместо того, чтобы поощрять свою страсть, он бродит по просторам сетевого порно и шпионит за Элин, шведкой, что живет через улицу. После развода она потеряла всякую связь с обществом. Для нее начинаются абсурдные, необъяснимые события, а поговорить ей об этом не с кем, кроме десятилетней дочери.
Producer
An Italian car salesman wants to impress the woman of his dreams, but he gets entangled in his own web of lies.
Producer
Polish Ewa works as an Au-pair in a small town in Holland. A sensitive girl, she finds it difficult to live up to her host-parents' clichéd expectations. When a rape takes place in town, Ewa believes to suspect the rapist. Having no one to share this knowledge with, it furthers her alienation from the people around her, resulting in her being send back home.
Co-Producer
What would be the shortest route between Entre Rios in Argentina and the Chinese metropolis Shanghai? Simply a straight line through the center of the earth, since the two places are antipodes: they are located diametrically opposite to each other on the earth's surface. During his visits to four such antipodal pairs, the award-winning documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky captured images that turn our view of the world upside down.
Producer
A political comedy about an illegal Moroccan who makes it to President of the Netherlands. As we follow his unlikely rise and self-sought fall, Joes learns that it's easy to win the support of the people, but to rule them is a whole other story.
Producer
Eleven-year-old Eva is upset by the many rows between her parents and decides to run away. She wants to hide at her best friends Jackie and Thomas’ house, but circumstances bring her to her mysterious neighbour’s garden. She finds a secret letter there, which tells her the man is a king pin in a criminal organisation. And he is not exactly happy with Eva’s unannounced visit. To convince her of the importance of secrecy, he reveals that Eva’s dad is also involved in his illegal affairs. Eva hesitates: is her father who he claims to be? From that moment on, the enterprising girl does her utmost to exonerate her father from being involved. A period dawns in which Eva discovers that grownups also lead their own lives. She wants to ask questions, but at the same time she is afraid of the answers.
Co-Producer
After a group of teenagers discover one of their friends lying dead on a river bank on one of the hottest days of summer, a story of jealousy, insecurity and peer pressure gradually unfolds. Group leader Caesar is able to magnify - out of all proportion - the small grievances that each of Jessie's friends bear towards her and transforms them into a general and pervasive hatred that leads ultimately to her horrible, senseless killing.
Producer
In the Andes, a Belgian doctor and his photojournalist wife become ensnared in a native tribe's struggle with a mining company.
Producer
Dunya and Desie are two 18 year old best friends from Amsterdam North. Dunya is Moroccan and Desie is Dutch. On Dunya's Birthday she is told that her marriage has been arranged with a distant cousin in Morocco. Dunya and her family will travel to Morocco to meet him. After Desie discovers that she is pregnant she joins Dunya in Morocco in a search for Desies father.
Producer
Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, a young nomad is confronted with his destiny after animals fall victim to a plague which threatens to eradicate nomadism.
Producer
Farouzi (12) is a dutch-arabian girl that works at a small fishers company. She is a dreamer who doesn't care about boys, especially those boys she works with. The only one she cares for is her loyal donkey: Sofiane. One day a misterios girl arives. The arrival of this girl triggers that Farouzi jumps on her donkey to find her luck...
Producer
Schnitzel Paradise is a Dutch film about a young Moroccan man working in the kitchen of popular Dutch restaurant.
Co-Producer
It follows of Joe and Isabel's marriage, which is dying. A naked stranger is found floating in the pool at their holiday villa, and they invite her to stay. What kind of relief can she provide for this family in crisis?
