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Ground-breaking French-Iranian sales agent and producer Hengameh Panahi, who represented a myriad of renowned Cannes and Venice prize-winning auteur directors, has died at the age of 67.
Paris-based press attaché Viviana Andriani, who handled press campaigns for a number of Panahi’s films, announced the news in a short communiqué.
She said Panahi had died on November 5 after bravely battling a long illness.
Panahi was a force to be reckoned with on the international film industry circuit, who launched dozens of renowned arthouse directors at the beginning of their careers and accompanied them as they won awards and fame.
Born in Iran, Panahi was sent to Belgium to complete her education as teenager.
She got her first big break in the film industry as head of international at Brussels-based animation studio Graphoui.
In an early sign of her flare for scouting promising talent, Panahi connected with John Lasseter and Tim Burton during a work trip to L.A. when they were cash-strapped young animators in the early 1980s and organized for them to attend the Anima animation festival in Brussels, run by Graphoui associate Philippe Moins.
Panahi was a pioneer in the sphere of film sales in the mid-1980s for the way she scouted and promoted international talent at time when most companies were focused on selling their own productions or local films from their home territories.
She launched Celluloid Dreams in Brussels in 1985, which she then moved to Paris in 1993.
Over the course of thirty years, the company sold more than 800 films, including works by Takeshi Kitano, Jacques Audiard, Jafar Panahi, François Ozon, Jia Zanghke, Bruno Dumont, Chantal Akerman, Marjane Satrapi, Todd Haynes, Laurent Cantet, Alexander Sokurov, the
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