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After producing her first feature film in the United States, she joined TS Productions, where she focused primarily on international co-productions. As the recipient of the Lagardère Young Producer Grant, she founded Marianne Productions in 2019 and produced Maxime Roy’s Les Héroïques (Official Selection—Cannes 2021), Le Ravissement by Iris Kaltenbäck (Critics’ Week 2023, Louis-Delluc Prize for Best Debut Film, Lumière Award for Best Debut Film, and two César Award nominations), and, more recently, the comedy Un Monde Merveilleux by Giulio Callegari, starring Blanche Gardin.

The company is currently in post-production on three films: the second feature films by Maxime Roy and Rohena Gera (whose film Monsieur was screened at Cannes), as well as the new film by Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni, co-produced with Les Films du Fleuve.

A graduate of the Master 2 in Finance program at Dauphine, Diane Cesbron specialized in financing film and audiovisual projects and companies. After helping to establish the SOFICA La Banque Postale Images, she worked in the specialized banking department at Fortis Bank, then joined Cofiloisirs in 2008 as an Authorized Representative. She is currently the CEO of Cinécapital.

Isabelle Grellat joined Mandarin when it was founded in 1996. In addition to managing and providing investment advice for the Sofica Cofimage, she has developed and produced about ten short films at Mandarin and has helped nurture emerging talent, guiding them from short films to feature-length films.

She has produced nearly twenty feature films, including those by Michel Leclerc (Les Caprices de l’Enfant Roi – Les goûts et les couleurs), Rémi Bezançon (Le premier jour du reste de ta vie – Un heureux événement – Le mystère Henri Pick – Ma vie en l’air), Ivan Calbérac (Venise n’est pas en Italie – L’Etudiante et M. Henri – La Dégustation), Léa Fazer (Maestro), Denis Dercourt (En équilibre), and Sophie Reine (Cigarettes et chocolat chaud).

She is also an associate producer, alongside Éric and Nicolas Altmayer, on Anne Fontaine’s Les Innocentes and Bertrand Bonello’s Saint Laurent.

Driven by personal passion and loyalty, she prioritizes human stories, artistic collaboration, and supporting filmmakers in creating films that are both popular and artistically demanding.

After producing about ten short films at Novoprod, Nicolas Sanfaute produced Crash Test Aglaé, Eric Gravel’s first feature film.

Joined by Raphaelle Delauche, he then produced A plein temps, also directed by Eric Gravel, which won two awards at Venice—Orizzonti (Best Director, Best Actress)—and two César Awards (Best Music and Best Editing). They then produced Juste une nuit by Ali Asgari (Iran, Berlin Panorama), Love Me Tender by Anna Cazenave Cambet (Cannes Film Festival Official Selection, Un Certain Regard), and, in a more comedic vein, La Poupée by Sophie Beaulieu (Competition at Angoulême and L’Alpe d’Huez).

They are currently in post-production on Avant la tempête, Eric Gravel’s third film.

Over the course of ten years, Thomas Verhaeghe produced about twenty short films and ten feature films at Sombrero Films, including La Stratégie de la poussette by
Clément Michel and Mères et filles by Julie Lopes Curval.

In 2015, he founded L’Atelier de Production alongside his brother Mathieu Verhaeghe, where he has produced about twenty films directed by filmmakers such as Quentin Dupieux, Noémie Lvovsky, Arnaud Lemort, and Olivier Py.

In 2026, L’Atelier de production released Alter Ego by Nicolas Charlet and Bruno Lavaine, Tout va super by Patrick Cassir, and De la Comédie-Française by Martin Darondeau and Bertrand Usclat, which won multiple awards at the Alpe d’Huez Film Festival.

Bertrand Mandico’s Roma Elastica, selected for the Midnight Screenings at Cannes, is set to be released in December 2026.