Actor-director Daniel Auteuil and key “Emilia Perez” collaborator Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux have arrange their subsequent options with Les Movies Velvet, the auteur-focused manufacturing outfit behind this yr’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris opener “The Musicians” in addition to Rebecca Zlotowski’s upcoming, Jodie Foster-led thriller “Vie Privée.”

After final yr’s Cannes-launched authorized thriller “An Peculiar Case,” Auteuil will step again behind the digicam for the World Battle II drama “Une Nuit” (“One Evening”). Co-written by Auteuil and filmmaker Camille Lugan (“The E book of Pleasure”), the movie follows the unbelievable true story of a 1942 effort to rescue extra then 100 Jewish kids from a deportation camp simply exterior of Lyon. Les Movies Velvet’s Frederic Jouve will produce alongside Adrien Nussenbaum.

An in-demand assistant director who has labored intently with Jacques Audiard, Zlotowski and Nadav Lapid, Pouilloux most just lately led second unit on “Emilia Perez” earlier than directing the Canal Plus collection “Iris.” The filmmaker will make his function debut with “Merci Maman” (“Thanks Mother”), an irreverent comedy, written by Pouilloux, a couple of mom who drags her son to couple’s remedy. The undertaking is at present casting, with manufacturing slated for later this yr.

Velvet can also be gearing as much as shoot comic Charlotte Gabris’ directorial debut “Au Frais.” Co-produced with Marine Alaric of Orta Movies, the comedian function follows a 38-year-old girl dumped by her boyfriend after which despatched by her nervous household to freeze her eggs in Barcelona.

Additional down the road, Velvet is growing new options from Thierry de Peretti (“In His Personal Picture”), Guillaume Renusson (“White Paradise”) and Farid Bentoumi (“Purple Soil”), in addition to the Amazon collection “Glam Squad,” created by Zlotowski and Olivier Nicklaus.

That almost all of the aforementioned filmmakers have labored with Les Movies Velvet earlier than is a degree of pleasure for Jouve, who believes above all in “nurturing” his secure of auteurs.

“It’s basic to suppose long-term,” Jouve tells Selection. “Careers are constructed over a number of movies, so I’m much less considering making a one-off hit and extra centered on growing filmmakers, pondering long-term, and rising collectively. Rebecca Zlotowski is an ideal instance. We’ve made six movies collectively — all the way in which from her very first — and we’re already engaged on extra.”