Since 1973, MK2 Productions has been supporting quality films for a global audience. Combining the demands of cinematic quality with commercial success, the company founded by Marin Karmitz has emerged over the years as a fixture in the international landscape of independent film.
Over the past thirty years, MK2 has produced over a hundred films created by directors from all over the world and won more than a hundred awards, from Cannes, Berlin and Venice, to Oscars, Golden Globes, Montreal, Sundance… Among them, masters of world cinema (Theo Angelopoulos, Michael Haneke, Abbas Kiarostami, Kieslowski Krzysztof, Alain Resnais, Gus Van Sant…), but also new talents that MK2 helped reveal (Fatih Akin, Xavier Dolan, Géla Babluani…).
Since 2006, the pace of MK2 Productions has accelerated around the trio formed by producers Marin Karmitz, Nathanaël Karmitz and Charles Gillibert. Among the most memorable motion pictures recently produced: 13 Tzameti by Géla Babluani (Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2006), Paranoid Park by Gus Van Sant (60th Anniversary Award at Cannes 2007), Summer Hours by Olivier Assayas (New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2009), Certified Copy by Abbas Kiarostami (Best Actress Award for Juliette Binoche at Cannes 2010)…
This year, three MK2 productions will be presented in the official selection at Cannes: On the Road by Walter Salles and Like Someone in Love by Abbas Kiarostami will be in competition, while Laurence Anyways [by Xavier Dolan] will compete in Un certain regard. In France, MK2 also sells and distributes After the Battle by Yousry Nasrallah, in competition.
MK2 also owns and distribute a major catalogue of more than five hundred international entries, sold to film distributors and TV channels worldwide. Among them, movies by Charlie Chaplin, François Truffaut, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Claude Chabrol, David Lynch…
In France, MK2 is the leading independent movie company and the third movie company in Paris with ten movie theaters, sixty movie screens and five million filmgoers per year.”
